[Indydealmaker]

Originally Posted by blueash

The link in your post does not seem to work so I cut and pasted it out of the reply code. This "article" was written by a salesman for a company that charges high prices for its products which are not made in China. Want to bet they are loosing market share and this bit of scare tactic, xenophobia, might be just the thing to increase sales. There is a bit of truth in what he writes. There is not a single bit of evidence that any of the photos has any association with organic practices in China. He just threw in some generic pollution shots. And the line which gives it all away...

Claiming that the Chinese official wouldn't swim in a river when he was dared to do so .."Because the river there is so polluted that swimming in it would mean certain death." The dare was on a blog by an eyeglass retailer. No where in the original article (which by the way seems to indicate that the government is trying to clean up) is there any basis for this author's ridiculous hyperbole.
Chinese environment official challenged to swim in polluted river | Environment | guardian.co.uk

As an importer of Chinese agricultural/industrial chemicals with Chinese partners, I can tell you that I would not consume "organic" food from China. It is bad enough that U.S. "organic" food is not necessarily "pure" as inferred by the public, let alone invite trouble by importing from proven polluted environments.