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Why Our Food Is Dangerous To Our Health

By Sandy Powers

The National Marine Fisheries Service lists China as supplying 70 percent of America’s tilapia. China and Thailand are the largest suppliers of imported shrimp. After traveling over two thousand miles throughout Mainland China and spending five days on the Yangtze River, I have become alarmed at the condition of our imported seafood from Asia.

The waterways of China and Hong Kong are so polluted with industrial chemicals, farm effluents, and human waste that seafood exporters must rely on antibiotic treatment just to keep the fish alive. I witnessed several bloated and decaying bodies, both human and animal, floating down the Yangtze. The Yangtze River empties into the waterways from which much of the exported seafood is fished. Seafood from Asian Fish Farms is no healthier than seafood caught in the wild. Thai and Chinese fishponds are notoriously filthy and pumped full of antibiotics. The FDA discovered the presence of the powerful antibiotic, chloramphenicol, in the imported Asian shrimp. Studies link the antibiotic chloramphenicol, a carcinogen, to anemia and leukemia, especially in children. In a recently published article, CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews quotes food safety expert Caroline Smith DeWaal, “Chloramphenciol is a serious problem in the human food supply,” she said. “It’s like taking a drug that’s not prescribed.”

Catfish imports from China are another serious concern for the presence of antibiotics. Flouoroquinolone antibiotics, which the FDA has banned for use in food, are showing up in tests conducted on catfish imported from China. “Aside from the threats to health, the imports have also been a threat to the economy of the Mississippi Delta, which provides more than three-fourths of the catfish eaten in the United States,” emphasized a report aired on National Public Radio. An influx of cheap imports from Asia is putting the American catfish farmers out of business.

Since only about one percent of our imported seafood is monitored by the FDA, most of the contaminated seafood ends up on our dinner tables.

Our imported fruits and vegetables are not fairing any better. According to an Associated Press analysis of FDA records, border inspectors consistently reject Mexican peppers and chilies. Ten percent of the rejected peppers and chilies were infected with salmonella. Since the FDA inspects less than one percent of all foreign food entering the country, ten percent of one percent is alarming. Mexican imports are disturbing sources of concern, not only from salmonella and E. coli, but also from the heavy pesticides the Mexican Agricultural Industry use in growing produce. It is referred to as “the circle of poison.” Chemical companies sell Mexican Agrifarms pesticides that are banned in this county. There are no regulations in the United States for the exportation of banned or unregistered pesticides. Little, if any, oversight exists for the use of these pesticides on the fruits and vegetables grown by the Mexican agricultural farms. With fifty percent of the imported fruits and vegetables in the United States coming from Mexico, we have an intolerable problem of polluted food.

Because the FDA is underfunded and undermanned, it rests on the consumer to force change.

First, don’t buy any fresh or frozen seafood from Asia. Support your local fisheries and fishermen. Fish farms in the United States typically use clean water, no antibiotics and no chemicals. If your local grocery store only carries Asian imports, request fish and seafood from the United States, or safer imports from Canada, Australia and New Zealand, for example. World trade is not going away. Just make sure you buy the safer imports.

Second, limit any fruits and vegetables from Mexico to reduce pesticide ingestion. Buy locally, if possible. Shop your local farmers and farm markets. Buy organic fruits and vegetables. Plant your own garden.

You are the author of your own health. Protect your well being with wholesome safe foods. Don’t permit the source of a food to become a danger to your health.

Sandy Powers

www.organicforhealthsite.com

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Pepper is the most common spice of the whole world. It can be found at every dining table along side with the salt. Every one loves the spiciness of the pepper. It really peps up the food and gives an energetic mood to the ambience.

Pepper is originated in the hills of south Western Ghats of India. It is now grown in Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and Guatemala apart from India. India consumes a major amount of pepper it produces. But Vietnam exports a major share thus tops the list of the exporters. The pepper grown in Kerala, India is considered as the finest pepper in the world. Two of the best known varieties of pepper belong to this region. They are known as Malabar Garbled and Tellichery Extra bold. The international Pepper Exchange is located in Kochi, India.

The botanical name of the plant is Piper Nigrum. It belongs to the family piperaceae. It is a climbing vine and it requires the support of a tree. Pepper is the dried fruit of the plant. The fruit is known as peppercorn and the dried one is known as pepper. The chemical in the pepper called piperine is responsible for the unique taste of pepper. Pepper can be obtained in many forms like frozen, dehydrated and freeze dried. Pepper is also available in brine.

Pepper is an excellent preservative and it is widely used by meat packers, in canning, pickling and baking industries. It has an uncanny capacity to correct the seasoning of the dish. Thus it is always used as a final fix in the preparation of every dish. Ground pepper loses its aroma quickly, hence pepper should be ground only immediately before the use. Pepper corns can be stored for many years without losing its flavor.

Pepper has medicinal properties also. It is excellent in the treatment of colds, flu and infections. It energizes and increases circulation. It warms up and relieves muscle aches and stiffness. Even the dried leaves and stalk of pepper plant are used as a spice and in seasoning.

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Source by Dhanya Narayanan

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The economy of Malaysia has expanded a lot in 2004, as in the following years, with a growth of 7.1 percent. At that time, GNI was at $ 117.1 billion and the GNI per capita at $ 4650. Malaysia’s economy continues to grow. In terms of purchasing power parity, the country was the twenty-ninth largest economy on the globe, having gross domestic product at $357.9 billion in 2007. Due to its continuous development in the industrial sector, Malaysia has one of the biggest living standards in Southeast Asia.

Malaysia has rich natural resources: palm oil, timber, tin, crude petroleum and rubber. Agriculture accounts for 12 per cent of the country’s GDP. 16 per cent of the working population is employed in the domain of agriculture. The most important crops are palm oil, cocoa and rubber, but also fruits and vegetables: coconuts, pineapples, rambutan, bananas and durian.

The country cannot satisfy the population’s everyday need for rice, so Malaysia is forced to import it from the neighboring countries such as Vietnam or Thailand. Malaysia is the biggest producer of palm oil in the world; it produced 10 million metric tons of palm oil in 1999, most of which was exported. Malaysia is also a big exporter of rubber and wood: tropical logs, sawed tropical timber, hardwood.

The manufacturing sector provides: furniture, office machines, electrical machines and appliances, clothing, footwear. International trade has a big role in the country’s economy, as it is one of the three countries controlling the Strait of Malacca. 48% of the country’s GDP is covered by the industrial sector: banking, telecommunications, tobacco, transportation, utilities. Bank Negara Malaysia regulates the financial sector in Malaysia. It licenses limits for foreign participation. In 2001, the central bank launched a Financial Sector Master Plan to recuperate the financial sector after the financial crisis in Asia, with an emphasis on Islamic Banks.

Poverty is still a big issue to be solved. Urban poverty seems to have been neglected in the favor of rural poverty, because it is considered that only 2 percent of the urban population lives in poverty. Malaysia’s economy managed to sustain a fast economic development in the last thirty years. It has reduced poverty and provided a better environment for the ethnic groups in the country. The World Bank confirms the fact that growth was registered in all Malaysian sectors. Growth was continuous for 5 years mostly due to domestic consumption. The private investments led to a private sector, increasing the country’s economy.

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Source by Vladimir Gonzalez

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Organizations around the world has been realizing the cultural diversity within organization is not a negative aspect, rather can facilitate organizational stalk for glory (Papers4you.com, 2006). However it is not an easy task to manage employees with different cultural backgrounds. Nevertheless there are many policy guidelines that can make task easy.

On a broader perspective, cultural diversity can be manage through communicating (creating awareness among all employees about diverse values of peers through communication), cultivating ( facilitating acknowledgement, support and encouragement of any employee’ success by all other workers), and capitalizing (linking diversity to every business process and strategy such as succession planning, reengineering, employee development, performance management and review, and reward systems) strategies ( Cascio, 1995).

There are many different innovative ways that organizations have adopted to manage diversity. For instance Tabra Incorporation, a small manufacturer of jewellery and accessories in California comprised of modest workforce is composition of Third World immigrants from Cambodia, China, El Salvador, Ethiopia, India, Laos, Mexico, Thailand, Tibet Vietnam and other nations. To acknowledge importance of their cultural association, at least 10-12 different flags are always hanged from the ceiling of its main production facility which represents the countries of origin of the employees. The owner’s view point is ‘I would like for this to be a little United Nations everybody getting along and appreciating each other’s culture instead of just tolerating it’. (Bhatia & Chaudary, 2003)

If cultural diversity can be managed effectively, there is a potential to use diverse workforce for organizational benefits. Cox and Balke (1991) asserts that multi-culturism is directly linked to organizational success as

Effectively managed multi culture companies have cost effective competitive edge

It helps in promoting minority friendly reputation among prospective employees

Diverse cultural corporations help to get better customers which has a variety of people

Diverse group of employees are perceived to be more creative and efficient in problem solving as compared to homogenous group

Ability to manage cultural diversity increases adaptability and flexibility of an organization to environmental changes.

Many organizational examples can be taken in this regard. In Australia, for instance, Hotel Nikko in Sydney has unique edge that staff members in direct guest contact areas speak a total of 34 different languages. Similarly Qantas Flight Catering has sixty-six nationalities on staff, with various overseas-born chefs. So dedicated diverse ‘ethnic’ kitchens gave Qantas a huge competitive edge that offers food based on customer’s ethnic taste and requirements. Moreover Don’s Smallgoods through literacy, language and cultural trainings increased cross-cultural communication and increased profits while lowering costs at the same time. Similarly The Cheesecake Factory had put special effort to understand Japanese quality and packaging culture as Asian employees assist management to understand Asian tastes so that they can target exports to Asia (Nankervis et al, 2002)

Hence the discussion suggests that it is imperative to realize that cultural diversity should be taken as a tool for better organizational progress rather than a managerial problem and if effectively managed, it can be a key to gain competitive edge and success

References

Bhatia, S., K., & Chaudary, P., ( 2003),’Managing Cultural Diversity in Globalization- Key to Business Success of Global Managers- Insights and Strategies’, New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publication Pvt Ltd

Cascio, W., F., (1995), ‘Managing Human Resources’ International Edition, US: McGraw Hill.

Cox, T. H., & Balke, S., (1991), ‘Managing Cultural Diversity: Implications for Organizational Competitiveness’ Academy of Management Executive, Vol 5, Issue 3, August 1991

Nankervis, A. Compton, R., & Baird, M., (2002) ‘Strategic Human Resource Management’. 4th Edition. Victoria: Nelson Australia Pty Limited

Papers For You (2006) “P/HR/188. Views on diversity management”, Available from Papers4you.com [19/06/2006]

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Source by Verena Veneeva

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The cutting process is obviously one of the most important steps in the journey of a diamond from a rough diamond to a polished and glittering one. Just as there are specific locations where diamond mines have been located, there are various centers across the world known for their diamond cutting expert resources. The factors that determine the manner in which these centers operate are varied and include customs, regulations, labor costs, prices and the proximity to diamond mines.

In fact most of these centers are created due to some specific environmental, governmental or economic situation. Each cutting center is known for its specialty and while one center may be popular for its expertise in churning out well chiseled small diamonds, the other might be known to be able to produce unique and irregular cuts.

Antwerp is probably the world’s oldest cutting center and it was a key center for the European gem trade in the middle ages. It is very well known for its cutting of large diamond rough and a very important center in this industry today. About 80 percent of the world’s diamonds pass through this center and some of the most important and prestigious De Beer sightholders are based in Antwerp.

Russia started its diamond cutting industry in a small manner. Small workshops were set up where the cutting work was completed. However, the discovery of the rich diamond deposits in Siberia turned the course of diamond cutting industry in Russia in 1955. The Russian cut diamonds soon began to be known for their precision and finesse. In 1990’s De Beers made one of the Russian firms, it sightholder and today Russia cuts diamonds from its own mines and also those from De Beers.

Another center that emerged post the World War II was Tel Aviv. This was because most of the skilled diamond cutter Jews fled Holland and Belgium to settle in what we today know as Israel. While the country produced small cut diamonds initially, they soon became the top producers of large diamonds and fancy, unique cuts. Tel Aviv is probably the most technologically advanced diamond cutting center as of now and exports around $4 billion worth of polished fancy cut diamonds. Most of these diamonds coming out of Israel are actually absorbed by the US market.

The diamond cutting industry in India prospered more when the Argyle diamond mines were found in Western Australia. These mines produced large amounts of small sized roughs that were suited to be cut as small diamonds. An expensive diamond cutting center would not at all be feasible for such work since the high labour cost would ultimately get passed on to the cost of making small diamonds and thus making them unaffordable and heavily priced. Therefore, India was a natural choice due to its cheap labor and large workforce. The main place where diamond cutting takes place in India are Maharashtra and Gujrat.These two places are the international trading center of India. Even though most of the diamonds that are cut in this center are below 3 pts, about 90% of the diamonds pass through this center by weight and 35% by wholesale value making it India’s largest export in 2000. More than 50 lakhs people are employed directly or indirectly in this industry in India.

New York is known for its special cuts, especially for large diamonds. The beauty of the diamond cuts and the size almost equals that of Tel Aviv and Antwerp. Since the labor costs are high in New York, the cutting center confines its operations to large high quality extraordinary diamonds, some of which adorn the fingers, wrists, necks and ears of the wealthiest diamond lovers in the world.

Thailand is known for cutting fashion colored stones. China has received a large amount of government backing in this area and today it specializes in small well-cut rounds.

Canada with its new discoverd mines, is the most recent entrant in to this area. This has happened due to the discovery of Ekati diamond mines that are under development in the northern tundra. The government would like the locals to benefit from this find and therefore a certain amount of stock of roughs is being sold to the local diamond cutters.

The diamond industry is a dynamic one and the emergence of these diamond cutting centers is also a proof of the same. As diamond mines were discovered and developed and made professional, specific diamond cutting centers were identified based on their proximity, labor cost, specific expertise and skill. These are the very centers that have been mentioned above – some that became large renowned cutting centers after years of hard work and others that have windmills that would turn them into profitable centers in a matter of days.

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The cow  in many religious Scriptures and books.

        ( as in the Torah, Quran, Gita and Bible)

                By              Prof Ghulam Mohyuddin Wani

                               BVSC&AH,MVSC(VOG)DVM,PhD                             

INTRODUCTION

The cow has been respected and honoured creature in all the religious books and scriptures. Most of the riots and killing in India in the past has been on this issue. The warrior factions perhaps never knew that all the religions of the world as viewed from the holly books the Quran,Gita,Bibel and Torah have mention of the cow. The Quran the holly book of GOD names it many times and full chapter  is named the COW ,AL-BAQUAR.This articles reviews the information to bring a universal brotherhood and common understanding of One GOD ,call him Allah,khuda or bagvan he is one and only one.

First of all I must apologize for any theological mistakes as I am a scientist of the animal sciences and not of the theology. My intension here is to represent the cow more as a scientific miracle than a religious belief. The cow  feeds us all on her milk made of her blood .She  like our mother is to have a due respect in all societies and cultures. I know of my culture we in OLD JOOS{may be Jews ,wandering tribe of Israel}Khowaja or now named as wani always call a cow GAW MUOG the mother cow and loved her,the tradition goes even today in kashmir.

 We will discuss the cow in three sections .In section 1 we shall reveiw the information from websites on the description and interpretation of various holly books .THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN COLLECTED FRON THE WEB AND  IS ACKNOWLEDGED.The section 2 shall be a scientific interpretation  given by the learned in the field of  concerned theology .The third and last concluding paras shall be based on our own scientific and philosophic metamorphosis and analysis mostly from the reference materials published by Anil Chawla.

We apologize in advance for omissions and ask all of you to please inform us about your views and criticize it ,so as to act PEERS of our forthcoming book .

Although the chapter 2 of the holly Quran is named the cow or the Al-Baqarah.Being the chapter in which most of the tenements of the religious beliefs and theological questions have been clearfied,naming it as the cow shows the esssensc.,Normally as writers when we sit to write a book we choose to name a chapter with most favoured phrase .Just like a newspaper chooses his headline with care, relevance and to attack attension.

CUSTOMS AND RITES

Many people confuse customs with religious commandments. RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS AND RITE S LIKE  clothes, eating habits,language,dress,music ,local habits cannot be equalized as a  belief or testimony, The Muslim religion fundamental principles like Aaeman.klama, Nimaz,zakat,haj are the essentials of the faith, The customs are localized and can be different in a country. Unfortunately sometimes religious good is diluted with customs or even the behaviour of a man or women calling him or her belonging to a particular religion.

A THEIF,KILLER OR A PROSTITUTE ,CORRUPT MAN ,ADULATOR,EVIL WHISPHERER,CONSPIRATOR OR A LAIR HAS NO PLACE IN ISLAM. Even if he names himself as a Muslim he cannot be regarded as a muslim.Even names were  not changed after  conversion during the days of prophet.

“We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to Allah (in Islam).”

Universal brotherhood concept.

Thus these verses of Quran make the ISLAM as a religion broader than some of us define or malign it. It has a principle of universal brotherhood. A Muslim is permitted to marry a Jew or a Christian or anyone who believe in one God ,A Muslim is allowed to have food of Jews .Christians or any one provided it is clean and free from forbidden items like blood, swine flesh etc Even under extreme condition he is allowed to eat what is forbidden but it should be in utter need not as a luxury .Thus having a boarder approach to life than the ordinary suicidal tendency and despondency.

.There is no commandment to be non-vegetarian or vegetarian. A Muslim can be one who does not eat meat,. The man has been born and left in the jungle .He was a hunter, all hunt to eat. Thus all ancient culture was non-vegeterian.The Islam does not ask you to eat this or that, but gives us liberty even to eat the forbidden items to keep alive.

It is nothing to do with the TAQWA , ONESS OF God. The essential component of the faith, which is a commonality in all religions. The conceptual principle which determines your faith,Food is optional and allowed under duress or in dare need, but hunger strike s or death by self suicidal acts is strictly forbidden.

The cow named surah or chapter of Quran is revealed in Medina and have details of the legislature and more detailed versions than those revelled to Mohammad in Mecca.

The cow in Herbrew

In herbrew the yellow heifer defines and described as choice of God for sacrifice  to Mosses like the Issac to Ibrahim is described as HAEGGEL ,:The sin of the calf .

 THE Apis Bull of EGYPT

      In Egyypt, the Apis Bull was the  object  of worship, . Among the Egyptians’ and Hebrews’  the wild bull, was widely worshipped, often as the Lunar Bull .Thus these cultures regarded the cattle more scared than the Hinduss,The one question which come to mind is that it is a custom more than a religious myth as some of immanent scholar of Sanskrit and Vedic literature have reported, Whatever ,the cow or the ox have been important an essential part of the global culture and customs from times immoral ..

MOUNT SINSIS

When Mosses went up onto Mount Sinaia to receive the Ten Commandments (Exodus 19:20 he left the Israelites for forty days and forty nights. The Israelites feared that he would not return .They  complied and gathered golden earrings. Then  melted them and constructed the golden calf.The Israelites made offerings and celebrated. In Hebrew the incident is known as ???’ ha‘?ggel or “The Sin of the Calf”.

CRETAN BULL OF GREEKS

          It is also mentioned as  Cretan Bull of Greek myth. Thus the Indian Myth of the cattle being scared is shared by other culture too like the Herbrew,Arabs,Egyptians and Greeks.It is thus a ritual or custom than a command ment of God and thus has different versions. The concept of GOD being the only one to be worshiped and that it has no physical form has been discussed in our earliest discussion in these web pages too. The God is a tagali= light source too powerful  and illuminative this realty is accepted in all the religions  books including VEDAS

In Moses farewell blessing to the Jewish people, he describes Joseph as an “ox”: “The most eminent, his [is the power of the] ox that is given to him….”(Deut. 33:17) In Jacob’s blessing to Joseph, the same word for “ox” appears, although in a different meaning, that of “wall”: “A fruitful son is Joseph, a fruitful son above the [evil] eye; daughters tread over the wall [to gaze on him]. (Gen. 49:22) The words for “over the wall” in Hebrew are “alei shur“, which if slightly revocalized can be read: “Ascend, O ox!” (“aleh” “shor

Thus they devised to make the Golden Calf, which is also called an “ox”, with the powerful magic tools in their mouths, which upset the order of the supernal realms. All the powers we mentioned combined together – that of the evil [generated by the Jews’ sin], that of the magic [powers they possessed], that of the holiness of Aaron’s, and that of the holy Name etched in the golden plate that was used to elevate Joseph from the Nile. This combination produced the Golden Calf, which was animated by the spiritual life-force of their grandfather Be’or. [Be’or] thus ascended from the vegetable to the animal kingdom, and [the Mixed Multitude] accepted him as their leader, who would inform them of the future and tell them whatever they would need to know. And all this was possible by the fact that they made the Israelites sin, as mentioned.

The soul of the wicked Be’or, which was present in this calf, was who yelled out, saying “This is your G-d, O Israel!” (Ex. 32:4) as our sages have stated. (See Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer 25)

DHARMA. Hindus must realize that enriching the life of bovine and other useful animals is DHARMA. Making efforts to build a healthy and large population of cattle in India is DHRAMA. On the path of DHARMA, a wise man is not perturbed by death since he knows that soul is immortal – “Weapons cannot cut it nor can fire burn it ; water cannot drench it nor can wind make it dry.” ANIL CHAWLA ,1999 WROTE – Srimad Bhagavad-Gita (also called Gita) is one of the most sacred books for Hindus. During the war of MAHABHARAT, just before the beginning of the war, Arjuna who was a great warrior suddenly developed self-doubt and raised fundamental existentialist questions about the purpose of life and hence of war which would have led to the annihilation of so many who were very dear to him. Lord Krishna who was a friend of Arjuna and was also driving his chariot during the war delivered the sermon of Gita clarifying the fundamental questions raised.

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON BEEF

(This letter was published in Letters to Editor, Hindustan Times dated 3rd January, 2002)
(Please visit ArchivesHT  for more details) 

Swami Vivekananda said: “You have always to remember that because a little social custom is going to be changed, you are not going to lose your religion, not at all. Remember these customs have already been changed. There was a time in this very India when, without eating beef, no Brahmin could remain a Brahmin ; you read in the Vedas how, when a sanyasin, a king, or a great man came into a house, the best bullock was killed, how in time it was found that as we were an agricultural race, killing the best bulls meant annihilation of the race. Therefore, the practice was stopped, and a voice;

Thus it is clear the respect of the cows and the cattle as a whole is shared by all religious books.Some eat it and some don not is a custom and no a religion.Howerver ,in Jammu and kahmir state of India ,a muslim majority state has the constitution which bans the cow slaughter and one finds very few muslims in Kashmir who willingly eat beef.This is not true of the other Indian or Pakistani muslims who eat beef as choice.Even the jummuiets from the borders and even those coming from tribal belt in Kashmir the Khatans etc do eat beef outside their state but not the kashmiri speaking muslims and Pandits.This too thus indicates it that is a custom of a race and not a religiom.In rest of ASIA ,MIDDLEEAST Goats are sacrificed on EID –UL-BAKAR,.The goat meat is phefered in all these places but not in Kashmir where the muslims and Hindu too like sheep meat and that too with fat and not too lean, These are habits and not religion. Thus a muslim can be  Muslim without eating beef.

This verse refers to the story of the golden calf made and worshipped by the Israelites after their exodus from Egypt. While Moses (Musa (as.)) was in communion with God on the heights of mount Sinai, while revelation was in the process of being sent down to him, while God was manifesting His presence to Moses and divulging to him the secrets of creation and of the structure of religion, some of the Israelites (under the direction and supervision of a person called Samiri) constructed and worshipped a statue of a golden calf

COWS AND ENVIRONMENT

The use of degraded agriculture wastes and deoiled cakes  by COWS and their conversion into milk. Meat and other valuable products ,saves of wastage and consuming non-edible nitrogenous matter like cellulose and deoiled cakes and in turn adding nitrogen to the soil hells us to maintain soil health and nitrogen cycle. The draught power has been detailed in our earlier articles .It helps India alone to save millions do dollars ,The fossil fuel price and carbon burn is a vital for the climatic change ,thus the role of cows in its desired ratio per hectare is helpful but not harmful,howerve the numbers are to be limited which is happenening as cross breeds give more per animal productivity than locals and cross bred ratio increasing in the Hindi northern belt speaks volumes. The problems encounter both under rained and irrigatated cropping systems is with male and unproductive animals .A survival of the fittest formula even does not apply here, thus serious thought is needed, We have proposed a unified use of these animals for research and development by all drug and medicine testing firms,organizations,vet college, medical experimental stations and the energy requiring institute and NGOs .A detailed plan to mitigate this and other customary problems have been suggested with in framework of the constitution and the populace cultural ethos.

PHILOSOPHY OF GITA by anil chawla describing the economics of the cattle.
(The following extracts are from his free web publications,and are cited here as scolarly references from him and not me)

“For the death of him who is born is certain ; and the rebirth of him who is dead is inevitable. It does not, therefore, behove you to grieve over an inevitable event.” (Verse 27, Chapter 2, Srimad Bhagavad-Gita)

Lord Krishna says that it is wrong to grieve about death since death is like a change of clothes. Soul gives up its old clothes and takes on new ones. Focussing on life and accepting death as an integral part of life – is the essence of Gita which applies to every aspect of human life. It is this philosophy that enabled Krishna to be an animal-lover and yet be a good hunter. Understanding the philosophy of Gita is necessary to comprehend animal-rearing.

In the field of animal rearing Consumption and Protection are two sides of the same coin. One who consumes is the one who protects and vice-versa. Muslims in India sacrifice goats at the time of Eid-ul-zuha and consume the meat. The other facet of this is that Muslims feed and take care of a goat for a full year or alternatively pay a big sum to one who has taken care of the sacrificial goat. On the other hand there are Jains who do not eat meat and do nothing to rear or take care of goats. India is the largest consumer of goat meat in the world and India has the largest goat population in the world. Pakistan does not consume pig-meat and it has almost no pigs. During the past thirty years the consumption of eggs and chicken in India has increased almost tenfold. This has led to the poultry industry getting a big boost and there has been an unprecedented increase in the population of hens. It will not be an exaggeration to say that if mankind stopped consuming eggs and chicken completely, hen as a species may vanish from the surface of earth.

Cow is considered sacred and is worshipped in India while in adjoining Pakistan there are no such beliefs. Yet, when a cow dies in India, its average carcass weight is just about 103 Kg and in Pakistan the average carcass weight is about 185 Kg. The figure for USA and Germany is about 315 Kg. In other words, cows in India are not butchered but are tortured to a slow and painful death by hunger. A foolish interpretation of DHARMA (loosely translated as duty or religion) has led some Indians to oppose cow slaughter leading to a situation where cows are neither cared for nor protected. A refusal to accept death of cow has made life hell for cow. Moving stray on roads Indian cow is forced to eat polythene bags and die a painful death. All talks of non-violence and pity by religious leaders sound nice but cannot give the essential ingredients of life to Indian cows.

Milk Production in India has increased considerably during the past three decades after National Dairy Development Board launched Operation Flood. Yet, the per capita availability of milk in India in 1997 was just about 58.5 Kg per annum. The corresponding figure for Pakistan is 116.3 Kg, Germany – 238.8 Kg, Russia – 145.1 Kg, USA – 251.3 Kg. Some persons may be surprised that the per capita availability of milk in India is just about half of that in Pakistan though economically Pakistan is almost in the same bracket as India. The misguided orthodox zealots who oppose all mechanized slaughter houses and meat exports often argue that continuous slaughtering of progeny of cows will lead to elimination of cows and bulls from the country causing a milk famine. The fact is just opposite – the countries that consume cow-meat have substantially higher milk availability.

The economics of animal rearing is based on milk as well as meat. Whenever any cow or buffalo gives birth, there is an almost equal probability of a male or female calf. A dairy farmer rears a female calf in expectation of milk, while a male is reared for either meat or for use as a draught animal. It is the combined economics of milk, meat and harness that makes investments possible in dairy industry. If any of the three pillars is disturbed, the economics of dairy industry is badly affected. In most developed countries, there is no use of animal in harness but demand for meat helps balance the economics of dairy industry. In ancient India, extensive use of bullocks as draught animals made dairy farming viable even without the use of meat. In modern India, on one hand, subsidies on electricity for farming, tractors, diesel etc. have eliminated the need to use animals for ploughing and carriage of goods. On the other hand, a plethora of restrictions on bovine meat have effectively prevented Indian dairy farmers from getting a reasonable price for bovine meat. This has rendered male bovine animals completely useless thereby affecting the economics and growth of the Indian dairy industry.

India exports almost ten million tonnes of de-oiled cakes every year to countries like Pakistan, Iran, Thailand, Korea, Japan etc. who have a better developed dairy industry. De-oiled cakes are rich in proteins and are primarily used as ingredient for animal feed. In addition to causing protein deficiency in an impoverished country like India, export of de-oiled cakes disturbs the Nitrogen cycle of nature causing the soil to lose fertility. Animals perform a useful ecological function by consuming non-edible nitrogenous matter like cellulose and de-oiled cakes. Faecal matter of animals completes the nitrogen cycle and enriches the soil. In the absence of sufficiently large number of animals, agriculture starts losing its long term viability. Hence, it is necessary that the economics of Indian dairy farming is strengthened so that Indian de-oiled cakes can be fed to Indian animals which are essential pre-requisite for maintaining soil fertility over the long term.

Cow dung also plays a minor albeit important role in dairy economics. Heavy subsidies on chemical fertilizers have reduced the demand for cow dung. This has made it impossible for any dairy farmer to feed a non-milking cow.

Dairy industry plays a vital role in the agro-based economics of India. Strengthening dairy industry is essential for removing poverty of the large majority of Indian population which is living even today in rural areas. The three pillars of dairy farming economics – Milk, Meat and Use in Harness – need to be strengthened. Just as National Dairy Development Board has done commendable work in the field of milk, there is an urgent need for similar work in the field of meat. Government of India should set a target to eliminate exports of de-oiled cakes in the next five to ten years. Subsidies on tractors, diesel, farm-use-electricity, chemical fertilizers should be gradually eliminated. Use of mineral fuel based vehicles should be banned in certain dense areas of cities and in such areas only human and animal powered vehicles should be permitted. This will not only increase utility of animals in harness but will also help reduce pollution in Indian city centres that have become almost inhabitable. Use of modern technology should be promoted in animal powered vehicles.

Hindu religion is based on “SANATAN” truths – facts and principles that have always been true and shall always are. It was this understanding of SANATAN truth that led the Lord Shiva who is known as a God of destruction being also called Lord PASHUPATINATH, the deity that is the owner and protector of all animals. Shiva family carries with it a symbolism that illustrates the concept of mutual dependence of beings for food and other needs. The vehicle of Shiva is a bullock while his wife Parvati’s vehicle is a lion that preys on bullock. Shiva’s son Ganesha moves around on a rat while snakes (who eat rats) hang around the neck of Lord Shiva. On the other hand snakes are devoured by peacock which is the vehicle of Shiva’s other son Kartik. Cycle of nature is based on such mutual dependence and mutual checks & balances. One who understands this cycle and does not get disturbed by death is a wise man. He accepts death as a necessary routine. Commitments towards life rather than concerns about death are the guiding principles for all his actions. DHARMA (loosely translated as duty or religion) is not in avoiding death nor is it in fearing death nor is it in worrying about or grieving over death. Life and living life is DHARMA. If moved by the fears of death non-violence weakens life and if violence accepts death to eventually strengthen life, then violence is DHARMA and non-violence is ADHARMA (antonym or antitheses of DHARMA). This is the philosophy of Gita and this is the way of upliftment of any society.

to be continued

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Healthy growth of GDP
Since the early of 90s, Malaysia has been enjoying a robust GDP growth between an average of 7-9%. Until recently, the growth rate is stabling between 5% to 6%. From export oriented economy and moving into services oriented. The milestones are changing to further stimulate internal growth as the government is pouring bullets into building the local infrastructures and creating special economic zones in its yearly fiscal policy and master growth plan. Even the growth of our neighbor’s countries (ASEAN) are enjoying a splendid growth. It is not becoming a competition in overall cause all countries have their own unique niche to certain extend. This combination is creating a unique ASEAN’s economy like the European Union. For the next 5 years, we forecast a growth rate between 4.5% to 5.5% due to the slow down in US economy and also sky high commodities prices that will need time of everyone to adjust. Many still parcel about the factors behind and what is the continuous factors may sustain it growth and will it be a major boom of the property prices. I have read many local and foreign experts views in this subject. However, we have come with some facts that may help to answer this question.

Government’s Policy on Property
Being an important factor that will contribute property prices stability and upside, government policy is always playing a major role in this segment.

But what is the reason that a need to boost the property prices? Government has been helping the lower income group by putting many policies like every project must has a low cost apartment in every township; putting taxes and pressures to avoid unnecessary speculation on property prices. All these policies are waived in 2007 like now there is zero tax on property gain transaction in Malaysia. Furthermore, the ministry of housing has set up better procedures to make the process of build, buy and sell more efficient; allowing EPF contributors to apply for monthly withdrawal to reduce their installment pressures or to buy a house; reduce stamp duty on RM 250,000 houses and below; lack the rules for foreign ownership and even provide incentives for foreigners with the recent 2nd Home Campaign to own a their second property as a home in Malaysia.

When we are moving into a high income, high margin and high tech service oriented economy. We cannot continue to have low cost strategy and we need quality human capital development in the country to compete in the global scale. Thus, boosting asset values is a wise strategy to boost local GDP income and also strong property price will have an effect in assisting the currency rate and also the local stock market- KLSE.

Population growth and its age group
Population is also the demand factor in the property market. Local population is the citizens of Malaysia and the foreign population is those who come in with 2nd Home campaign or as expatriate that temporally working in Malaysia.

It will not be a surprise why there are many hospitals establishing in everywhere of the country no matter they are government funded or private funded. This is due to the age group of Malaysia that almost 65% above of the whole nation population is at 35 years old and below. From 35 years old to 45 years old probably got another 10% are getting more buying power to invest in their 2nd or 3rd property. It means there will be a lot of buyers are flooding into the market in the next 5 to 10 years. Need not to count the foreigner investors and pensioners that always view Malaysia as one of the most cost effective country in the world.

Globalization Effect
It is by far even to tell all that the world is gradually becomes one. No matter where you stay and what country are you living in. Everyone can move from country to country due to business, education, cultural exchanges, sports and more.

The economics’ factors that drive prices sky high in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Korea, Japan, Australia and Europe. There will not be any cheap property anymore in any corners of the world depending on the urbanization rate of those cities. It is a matter of time but given those fundamentals in Malaysia economy, it will be also a pressure to boost the property price locally. We should not compare within ourselves between the current price and the historical prices. We have to look globally and compare with our peers.

Even today, if you compare to US property market that has been impacted by the sub-prime loan crisis. I believe apple to apple comparison between a bungalow in New York and in Kuala Lumpur, it has still a far difference between two. Well of course, some may argue that because of our GDP income is lower. But if you believe this figure will revise up in the coming year, It gives strong support that property prices in Malaysia will rise further.

Rising cost of materials
US dollar heading downwards, to certain extend I believe it is on purpose by the Federal Reserve and their governmental policies due to the strong challenge of China and Asian booming economies that cause continuous trade deficit in US. When dollar is heading down, all commodities trade with the benchmark using US dollar has been rising steadily. Example: Crude oil, steel, gold, iron and even food.

Couple with the intensifying demand from high growth countries like China, India, Indonesia and potentially African countries in the coming years. This is no more inflation, but is rather as asset revaluation stage. Most government has measured their CPI (Consumer Price Index) with core components that always excluded many necessity components that is vague in telling the clues related to actual inflation.

Conclusion
Given all factors that we have discussed above, It is strongly believes that low cost property in Malaysia is going to be a past subject. If we are following steps of Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea by example to be a developed nation, we should expect the property prices to be playing a catching role in comparison to these markets.
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   At present, China furfural total capacity of about 30 million tons / year, furfuryl alcohol production capacity of about 20 million ton / year, distributed more than 200 manufacturing enterprises in the past more than half of production for export. Developed countries, production declines, gradually withdraw from furfural, furfuryl alcohol and its products markets, the production center of gravity has been transferred to developing countries. China in terms of productivity, both output and export volume ranking first in the world to become furfural, furfuryl alcohol and its largest producer of processed products.

    

    1, uses a wide range

    Furfural furfuryl alcohol is mainly used for production of another important use is the production of tetrahydrofuran. Penn United States, some 2 million mt / year of furfural production of tetrahydrofuran unit, due to competitiveness discontinued in 2001, China’s Jilin Qianguo refinery has been the introduction of the technology, plans start construction this year 20 thousand tons / year plant THF . Lubricating oil refining process of furfural used as a solvent, selectively extracted oil will no longer need the aromatics and olefins such as unsaturated hydrocarbon component, leaving only the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons and alicyclic hydrocarbons, and reduced lubricant sulfur and carbon residue, after removal of impurities to improve the lubricating oil viscosity, color, resistance to oxidation and thermal stability.

    At present, China still use most of the oil refining unit of furfural as solvent. In addition, furfural also be used as purified from crude anthracene anthracene oil solvent, rosin decolorizing solvent. In addition, the chemical properties of furfural and lively, we can further as a manufacturing pharmaceuticals, pesticides, perfume intermediates, such as the production of furoic acid, 2 – methyl-furan, furan, levulinic acid and so on. 80% ~ 90% of the alcohol is consumed in furan resin, also for the production of THFA.

Tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol is mainly used for special solvents and chemical intermediates, solvents such as pesticides, industrial and household cleaners, paint remover, with its acrylate, methyl acrylate can be used as the reaction of unsaturated polyester monomer, its latest use is in the electronics industry using its preparation of cleaning agent, which may be tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol in the future market demand, the fastest-growing areas. A small number of alcohol for the production of friction wheel with the high temperature phenolic resin binder, such as automobile brake pads and so on. In addition, production of furfuryl alcohol or perfume, fragrance, pharmaceutical, pesticide intermediates. More use of Furfural and Furfuryl Alcohol to be further developed.

    

    Second, the export situation is gratifying

    In recent years, China’s total exports of furfural and furfuryl alcohol volume 60000 ~ 9 million tons in 2004, l ~ 5 Exports amounted to 27,112.6 tons, exports amounted to 23.0008 million U.S. dollars, the products are mainly exported to Japan, South Korea, the United States, Belgium , Thailand, Jordan, Iran and Turkey, and China’s Taiwan. Furfural reduction of China’s export volume in recent years, but the furfuryl alcohol and furan resin in the international market more competitive. Belgium Quaker Oats Chemical Company is Europe’s largest manufacturer of furfuryl alcohol and furan resin, furfural is also China’s second largest trading partner, by way of re-export trade in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, China and other countries also imported and processed products of furfural. Two years ago, the export prices of furfural and furfuryl alcohol at one time dropped by 40% or more (based on corn-cob 200 ~ 250 yuan / tons, furfural production costs 3,000 ~ 3,500 yuan / ton, furfuryl alcohol in the 5000 ~ 5500 yuan / ton, furfural once dropped to 500 U.S. dollars / ton, furfuryl alcohol dropped to 620 U.S. dollars / ton cost price, so China’s production of furfural and furfuryl enormous impact on business efficiency.

   

    Third, global competitiveness have obvious advantages

    China’s production of furfural and furfuryl alcohol resources, technology, economic and market a variety of competitive advantage, development of furfural and furfuryl alcohol and downstream production of realistic and long-term interests.

    1. Abundant sources of raw materials

    Most of China’s production of furfural using corncob as raw material, about 10 tons of raw materials to produce 1 ton of furfural. Ours is a large agricultural country, maize output 110 million to 1.3 million tons, annually 20 million t of corn cob, can be produced 2 million tons of furfural. Sugar cane residue, wheat shells and rice hulls, and other resources, yet the use of these resources are renewable resources, it is estimated China’s annual potential of more than 4 million t of furfural raw material resource.

    

    2. Maturity of the technology

    China’s existing furfural devices are used 10 to 20 cubic meters of acid-resistant material lining the hydrolysis reactor in series, process and equipment is relatively simple, low investment, fast construction, when effective, easy-to-promotion, suitable for small and medium enterprises. Furfural Hydrogenation is the early production of alcohol, whether the introduction of gas-phase or liquid-phase self-developed technologies are mature, and plant in the vicinity of the small fertilizer plants, the use of synthetic ammonia exhaust gas, access to low-cost hydrogen source, is to reduce alcohol cost effective way.

    In 2002 I examined in the United States has been discontinued OMAHA City Penn’s 2 million ton / year installation of furfural and furfuryl alcohol, furfural production of 100 cubic meters of ball-type cooking kettle, large and complex materials, gas transportation and slag system so that construction costs and energy consumption significantly increased, but the yield of furfural, and other key economic and technical indicators are not advanced, so the device face of cheap imports of China and the shutdown of furfural is the inevitable result of the auction. Furfuryl alcohol by gas hydrogenation unit, similar to domestic technology, but also due to stop production for the same reason.

    

    3. Significant social benefits

    China’s furfural and furfuryl alcohol production enterprises are mostly small and medium sized rural enterprises on the prosperity and development of rural economy and increasing rural employment opportunities, increase rural incomes and increasing rural electricity supply and so has a practical significance. The raw materials for furfural production of renewable resources to maize production season 500kg / mu meters, 100kg-product corn cob to corn cob 200 yuan / tonne basis increase the income of peasants 20 yuan / mu. Building a capacity of l million tons / year of furfural and furfuryl alcohol devices, invested about 40 million to 5,000 million, could provide more than 500 local rural fixed and hundreds of temporary employment opportunities and an increase of 200 million farmers or direct income. Accompanied by a small amount of hydrolysis residue of furfural fuels coal, can be built 6000kW / h power generation equipment, in addition to their own use for things other than also for the local government can bring million yuan per year in taxes. If we continue to produce the downstream products, its effectiveness will be even greater.

   

    4. Strong demand for downstream products of furfural and furfuryl alcohol-rich downstream products, pending further development, especially worth mentioning is that from the direct production of furfural can be tetrahydrofuran, poly-THF is the production of polyurethane and polyurethane elastomer materials, one of China’s current annual 100,000 t or more market. Quan Co., Ltd. Shandong, the introduction of gas-phase furfural has been Russia’s system of tetrahydrofuran technology, Jilin Qianguo Penn’s refinery from the U.S. introduction of liquid phase processes.

   

    Fourth, expand the scale and strengthening governance

    Protection and enhancement of our production of furfural and furfuryl competitive advantage, first of all to recognize our shortcomings and potential. There are two shortcomings, one the size of the problem the second is waste management.

    Furfural production plant in China’s small and dispersed, more than 20 million tons / year capacity is distributed among more than 200 factories, large 3000-5000 tons / year, the smallest only a few hundred tons. Because of their size, economies of scale poor, and because of the failure to tie cinder power generation equipment, energy consumption is high; can not be recovered acetic acid, methanol, acetone and other by-products, affecting the economics of the device.

    Furfural production of high energy consumption, the production of furfural 1t about 20t steam to produce acid, salt and furfural and other organic waste water of about 20t, distillation residue 0.1 ~ 0.2t, including methanol, acetone and other gas, waste 0 .5 ~ 0.8t, cinder produce large amounts of sulfur-containing flue gas emptying, in particular, on the surrounding groundwater contamination can not be ignored. The treatment of these wastes have a mature technology, simply because small-scale production, construction, the corresponding treatment facilities uneconomical.

    

    The basic scale of furfuryl alcohol production facility in China in the 10000 t / a or so, mainly self-hydrogen source of the problem. Because small-scale construction of high cost of hydrogen source, affecting the economic and devices to increase.

    If China is to protect and enhance the furfural, and alcohol industries, competitive advantage, its first production facilities to achieve the scale, resources, harmless. I believe that devices should be built in China furfural in corn or sugar cane-producing areas, the scale should be l million tons / year or more, about 10 million tons of corn core, quite 100 mu land corn production, in general, the transport radius of corn cob 50km within the framework of an economic, furfural plant to build the appropriate scale power generation facilities, waste treatment facilities harmless. Alcohol device should be at 2 million ton / year or more, self-hydrogen source. The size of tetrahydrofuran derivatives furfural important to be at 2 million ton / year over the production of derivatives of furfural devices can take a few months for the materials, can not be constructed in each of furfural plant production plant derivatives.

    

    Furfural and furfuryl alcohol production and development in China today is very hard, but fragile. Industry-wide management, development, guidance, domestic and international trade, market analysis research and other mechanisms has not yet formed an urgent need to protect and enhance the entire industry a competitive advantage measures. Internally to prevent the disorderly competition, do not pass on the enterprise losses of farmers, the external active preparations to prevent and respond to foreign countries against Chinese products to implement anti-dumping complaints, otherwise the whole industry will bring about great losses.

    The development of both furfural and furfuryl alcohol production to expand exports, but also a lack of savings and to replace our need to import large quantities of oil resources is the cause of China’s long-term development. Called on the government departments as soon as possible on the current good economic returns, to manage, with technical strength, there is a certain scale device companies provide policy support to enhance the economic strength for the entire development of the industry has played first, demonstration, promotion and guiding role.
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Over the past 15 years, the international medical plastics market, the average annual growth rate of 15% to 18% in a variety of medical device market growth rate in the top. The production of medical plastic products in China began in the last century, 70’s, the earliest medical plastic products of PVC (PVC) infusion bag system, which replaced the transport inconvenience, easily broken glass infusion bottles. At present, medical plastic products has developed into a major export of China’s medical device products. However, due to cut-throat competition, research and development lags behind many other reasons, in recent years, some of the advantages of domestic medical plastic products, gradually reducing the low-end is still the main export products, while the market demand for larger, more expensive intervention catheters, kidney dialysis machines and other high-end product development and production, should be strengthened.

Disposable syringes industry advantage is no longer

The 20th century, 80 years, domestic companies abroad imitation PVC disposable syringes to be successful. As the production process of disposable syringes is relatively simple and required little capital, technology content is low and easy to put into production and so on, 90 years, thousands of businesses across the country have launched projects disposable syringes, so that the rapid development of our country to become the world’s largest producer of disposable syringes is and exporting country, while the disposable syringes are rapidly becoming the largest domestic production of medical equipment products. However, after the market Ebb Tide, currently only the remaining 300 companies still producing disposable syringes. Concern that the National disposable syringes on the total capacity of up to 10 billion, but the actual annual output of only 30 billion to 4 billion, of which a large number of products exported to the international market. Last year, China exported an average price of disposable syringes only each 0.18 ~ 0.22 yuan. This price is close to cost price, export enterprises can only earn that export tax rebates. This is the disposable syringes enterprises in the international market, the consequences of vicious competition. Not only that, due to the large number of China’s export of disposable syringes, since last year, Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, India and other countries on China’s exports disposable syringes filed anti-dumping lawsuits. These countries are China’s major export markets disposable syringes. Should the guilty in these countries, they will charge 30% of China’s disposable syringes and 50% of the ‘punitive tariffs’, which will lead to changes in these countries from the importers to import European manufacturers of similar products.

At present, foreign countries need most is auto-disable syringes, prefilled syringe and syringe needle-free syringes and other advanced products, in this respect, China and the developed countries are fairly far behind.

Strengthen the R & D and production of medical catheters

Medical catheter (tube) products after China’s second largest exporter of disposable syringes medical plastic products. It is estimated that the national medical plastic tube output of 2 billion or so, a number of catheter Plastic products production and export in the international market leader, including the oxygen tube, suction tube, gastric intubation, dialysis, drainage tubes, feeding (liquid food) Tube, J-type catheter, negative pressure drainage tubes and other medical catheters. However, the added value of these products is not high, mostly Class Low-Value Consumable catheter (this is similar to the situation of China’s disposable syringes). In China, the implementation of more than ten million new cases each year of cardiovascular stent implantation, making such operations must be used to expand airbags and cardiovascular intervention plastic catheter, but this high-grade catheter products in China has less production, but a large number of imports from the United States — – That is why in the domestic hospital for a cardiovascular stent implantation surgery will take several million yuan reasons. Import catheter and stent is too expensive, ordinary working-class unbearable.

To be made to improve the quality of kidney dialysis machines

At present, about one million people worldwide have three people in uremic patients, they need to have regular kidney dialysis, so hollow plastic fiber kidney dialysis machine needs a huge number. However, the hollow plastic fiber kidney dialysis machine market fundamentals for the United States, Germany, Sweden and Japan and other developed countries monopolize. China hospital kidney dialysis machine 90% of imported products. At present, the domestic hollow plastic fiber kidney dialysis machine, not only in quality than similar products in developed countries, production is running out. Many domestic hospitals for fear of domestic hollow plastic fibers, but the quality of kidney dialysis machines can not easily be purchased off of. In addition, while the demand from the market point of view, development and production of domestically produced high-quality plastic hollow fiber kidney dialysis machine has good prospects, but unfortunately, our country has in the production of specialty plastic dialysis hollow fibers have not yet made significant technological breakthrough, most dependent on imports.

Urgent need for replacement of artificial heart-lung machine

At present, the foreign hospital for bypass surgery required an artificial heart-lung machine (oxygenator) has plastic membrane oxygenator, but my hospital is still using the backward Bubble oxygenator. Western medical researchers believe that the plastic membrane oxygenator in the future is bound to replace the traditional bubble-type oxygenator, as the former effect on plasma components smaller. It is predicted that due to a number of countries like China are still the same should be gradually to replace the bubble-type oxygenator, therefore, plastic membrane oxygenator will be the next 10 years, best-selling products on the international market.

In addition to these products, domestic and overseas markets for much-needed artificial heart valves, artificial blood vessels, artificial joints and other orthopedic implantable medical devices such as high-end production of plastic products, China is still in its infancy, both in product quality, quantity or variety of both unable to compete with similar products in developed countries.

Development of high-grade raw materials is a priority

Medical plastic raw materials from the production and consumption can judge a country’s medical plastic products industry, degree of development. Currently, manufacturers of medical plastic products in developed countries there are more than 90 kinds of raw materials, including silicone rubber, polyurethane, polyethylene terephthalate, polyamide, polyacrylonitrile, polyolefin, polycarbonate, polyether, poly sulfone, polyacrylate, etc.. It was reported that in 2008, China for the production of PVC medical plastic products as high as 5 million tons of raw materials, such polymer materials used in manufacture of low-grade medical products, and our polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate , polyether, polysulfone polymer such as relatively high prices of medical consumption of plastic raw materials, much lower than Europe and the United States, Japan and other developed countries. This shows that our medical plastic products in the technical level there is a big gap with the developed countries. Developed high-grade medical plastic products used in the consumption of new materials, polymer cent of their production of medical polymer materials, 40%, while the proportion of China’s less than 10%.

In view of this, our medical plastic products to break the high-volume, low-return of the existing structure, the only way out is to increase investment to develop much-needed domestic and foreign markets high-end medical plastic products. Otherwise, as in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia and other Southeast Asian newly industrialized countries of the medical plastic products processing industry, the rapid rise in the future is bound to low-end of our disposable syringes and other medical plastic products pose a threat to the export. Rely solely on export large volumes of low-grade medical plastic products to swap the old road will be increasingly difficult to walk, my company has only determined to take the ‘technological innovation’ the road to open up a new world.
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The Five Oddest Places to Find Cannabis Seeds

There are some places in the world where you would expect to find cannabis seeds, joints and hash cakes; finding a spliff in Amsterdam, late night comedy writer’s rooms and the green room for Bob Marley and the Wailers wouldn’t be much of a surprise. Like a duck to water, cannabis just goes naturally together with some places and images. It just seems natural. But what about the places you wouldn’t expect? There are some instances of marijuana turning up that you wouldn’t have imagined in your entire life. We have a look at the oddest places you could think to find cannabis and cannabis seeds…

5. Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the People’s Republic of China

Whole countries rather than specific places, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the People’s Republic of China are the last places you would look for weed. Or, to be more accurate, they are the last places you would want to find weed. These countries (and some others) have particularly harsh responses to most kinds of drug use, marijuana being one of the drugs that you can be executed for having! While many people still import and export cannabis from these countries, most people wouldn’t even think about running the risk, thinking it odd to have the drug there when in other countries it’s almost completely legal.

4.In an Open Field – in America

America has one of the least open or forward thinking policies on cannabis and cannabis seeds (though that may change soon). You would therefore think that it would be one of the last places to have vast open fields sown with cannabis seeds, but you’d be wrong. In one part of the country, orders for marijuana seeds are through the roof. The Emerald Triangle in northern California is the nation’s largest grower of marijuana plants, and though the authorities routinely route out and burn down the crop, people are planting and growing cannabis at a rate that’s faster than they can destroy it.

3. In Granny’s Bag

You may think “Sweet old Gran” would never have anything even slightly illegal or interesting, but you may be wrong. Marijuana is often championed for its pain relieving qualities, and was (and in some places still is) prescribed as a form of pain relief for many illnesses. The increase of silver surfers on the internet and the availability of cannabis seeds over the web has meant an increase of marijuana use among the elderly. So if you were to root around, you may well find that Granny has more than just Werther’s originals at the bottom of her bag…

2. In your drink

Putting cannabis seeds or straight weed in your drink may seem very odd, but it’s not as crazy as it sounds. Many guides and cookbooks that have sections of culinary uses for the drug suggest uses in your libation, creating a “Green Dragon”. It would be odd (and more than a little worrying) to find it in your drink if you hadn’t wanted it there or known that it was, but as a personal choice the ‘experts’ say it’s “Odd, but good”.

1. On the president’s desk

Ok, so it’s unlikely that any president (other than that of a banana republic) is going to plant marijuana seeds in a pot and let them grow on his or her desk as an indoor plant. But presidents and officials are more and more likely to have – or admit to having – planted, grown, harvested or smoked (or at least inhaled) weed. Unlike Bill Clinton’s famous “I smoked but I did not inhale” line, current incumbent Barack Obama has stated that he “did inhale. That was the point!” So finding weed in the White House, though odd, may not be out of the question at some point down the line…

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