French police investigating illegal Chinese immigration have uncovered more than 20 tonnes of unfit food destined for sale in Chinese restaurants and supermarkets in Paris, officials announced Friday.Some 3.5 tonnes of spoiled fish was found at a supermarket in a Chinese neighbourhood in the 3rd arrondissement on Tuesday, and a further 20 tonnes - mainly fish and ravioli - found in a warehouse in the suburbs the following day.
Police said 10 or more illegal immigrants were lodged in degrading conditions in an apartment next to the supermarket, and were employed making pasta dishes for distribution around the capital.
Bon Appétit !
I'll still eat kung pao chicken.
Yes...well, before we throw stones at France for allowing unsafe food to be sold to the masses, we must look closer at ourselves for allowing beef tainted with MadCow to be distributed here. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Don't allow your hatred for the French to make you look like a ranting lunatic. Poke fun at them though, they deserve it. But poke fun at all of us. The French are no more corrupt than any of us.
Yeah, selling beef from other cows in a herd that was later suspected to possibly have been exposed to mad cow disease (and then voluntarily recalling it) is exactly like getting busted for selling rotten fish. No relativism here, no sir.
Niffur,
Had we only known you were so delicate, well, we would have foresworn throwing stones, sold our glass house, and confined our lunacy to playing a fawning John Edwards to your John Kerry.
Thank you for all the good advice. It's a little hard for a site dedicated to mocking France to be as nicely mannered as you think yourself.
Maybe you could have begun a little less harshly, like just lecturing us on haircare tips or posting some low-carb recipes. Then, having won us over, you could pull your big mirror over and we could all stare and stare and poke fun at everybody. It must be great being you!
Regards,
DGB
Thank you for helping to keep, obnoxious, vulgar American tourists from coming to France which anyway they can't afford.
Mr. Vachier,
Glad to oblige.
Yes, who wants impoverished Americans somehow appearing in the first-class seats of Air France and further camping out at expensive dumps like the Hotel Victoires Opera for weeks on end? So what if the French government weeps itself to sleep every night because the French wine industry is withering without stupid fat Americans to foist its best on? Who cares if proud France employs pale celebrities to beg Americans to love her?
Apparently, Mr. Cow-y, France's self-interest, her economic health, the survival of her many charming tourist sinkholes are but nothings compared to the smug self-pleasuring you derive from your wilting commentary.
Yes, Americans are missing out on pretty France, but on the bright side, Mr. Cow-y, they will not risk suffering the acquaintance of your dull pretentious person.
Regards,
DGB
Ah, so this is just a France-bashing site? I'm sorry, I didn't realize. I'm not much into hate-mongering, so you won't see me post here again. And yes, I know, you won't miss me at all. May your elitism save the world!
Niffur,
Does that comment you just made feel like rational thought to you? Do the exressions 2+2=4 and 2+2=5 feel any different to you when you think them? I am just curious.
"The French are no more corrupt than any of us."
I suggest that you do a google search on "Oil for Food", don't bother with "petrol pétrole contre nourriture" because the issue has been all but blacked out in the French press. Just as it has been in the minds of all Kerry supporters.
The Oil-for-Food scandal is really a scam. Most of those French
companies were Halliburton subsidiaries.
So the French are profiteers; that makes us more LIKE you than different
from you.
Damian
Do you sincerely believe that the French are all worried about the problems of wine-breeders ?
This only annoys our government and of course the wine-breeders themselves while the rest of the population can enjoy cheaper wines.
By the way, your contribution to the increase of french purchasing power is rather small compared with other agents (namely overproduction, bad commercial strategy...).
Try harder and maybe one day I will thank you.
Poor Mr. DGB
Your flowery language does not make you any smarter and anyway I thought only retarded sissies with a mother problem could talk like that.. Your site is a disgrace of slander and desinformation which makes Bush's land looking more and more like Stalin's and I have to dig pretty low to level with you. USA is the only place in the world where the term "working poor" exists and the World Health Organization has ranked its health care for the people at the 28th place right after Iran. Of course there are some rich American who can fly on the French supersonic that Boeing was unable to built (please spare me the Air France crash story when the US Navy shot a TWA flight by mistake). Nevertheless 90% of Americans can't afford to travel in Europe other than with a backpack. The rest of them buy French wineyard because it's a good business and a place to go in case the dry drunk fanatic neocons get the dictature of their dream.
PS: What DGB stand for? Disgusting Gross Bullshit?
The French just can't deal with the fact that Americans earn more than they do, and have more disposable income.
Your government really needs to make up your mind for you, is Bush like Hitler or Stalin?
Its sad really
The French just can't deal with the fact that Americans earn more than they do, and have more disposable income.
Another classic PAVE generalization... Did you ever wonder why the US comes way behind western Europe in poverty level and income gap? Sure, you have more millionaires per capita.
It may be surprising to most people to realize that USA, the wealthiest nation on Earth, has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation, and disparities continue to grow. And inequality within the nation is quite sharp. (See also this article and this article about how the media deals with such issues.) United For a Fair Economy reported that for 1998 almost 70% of the wealth was in the hand of the top 10%. In another report, they mention that the gap has widened in recent decades. “In 1989, the United States had 66 billionaires and 31.5 million people living below the official poverty line. A decade later, the United States has 268 billionaires and 34.5 million people living below the poverty line-about $13,000 for a three-person family.”
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/PovertyAroundTheWorld.asp#PovertyinIndustrializedCountries
I seem to remember a study done in Sweden that compared household wealth for Sweden vs. each of the US states. Sweden came in 51st after Mississippi.
You need to measure actual wealth and possessions, not just an average.
Our below poverty line is not constant. People go above and below as they progress from lower levels of education to higher levels to employment, unlike the stratified french.
Our below poverty line is not constant.
Actually it has only very slightly declined since 1959, according to the US Census Bureau , and still ranks behind a number of industrialized nations.
US poor
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=797
In 1995, 41 percent of all "poor" households owned their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as "poor" is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio. Over three-quarters of a million "poor" persons own homes worth over $150,000; nearly 200,000 "poor" persons own homes worth over $300,000.
Only 7.5 percent of "poor" households are overcrowded. Nearly 60 percent have two or more rooms per person. The average "poor" American has a third more living space than the average Japanese and four times as much living space as the average Russian. Note: These comparisons are to the average Russians and Japanese, not to those the government classifies as poor.
Seventy percent of "poor" households own a car; 27 percent own two or more cars. Two-thirds of "poor" households have air conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago only 36 percent of the entire US population enjoyed air conditioning.
Ninety-seven percent of "poor" households have a color television. Nearly half own two or more color televisions. Nearly three-quarters have a VCR; almost one in five has two VCRs. Sixty-four percent own microwave ovens; half have a stereo system; and over a quarter have an automatic dishwasher.
Despite frequent charges of widespread hunger in the US, 84 percent of the poor say their families have "enough" food to eat; 13 percent state they "sometimes" do not have enough to eat; while 3 percent report they "often" do not have enough to eat.
(you can read the article for the rest if you want.)
