This isn't about being rude or hypocritical. In the past, US athletes have had problems with the food in China making them sick (I know a woman who plays on the US women's football team, and they've dealt with this in the past). Meat in China commonly contains steroids. Get a life, haters.

Larry, Nanjing, China

good for them. Now if people would stop buying things from them, they might stop killing their own people as well.

Steve, London, UK

I find it somewhat ironic that the American contributors are having the gall to crticise the Chinese about pollution.

Which nation is the No.1 consumer of Chinese manufactured goods? Which nation's manufacturer's court Chinese manufacturer's whilst turning a blind eye to Industrial pollution? Which nation believes it's their god-given right to drive cars that consume petrol (gasoline) as if it's going out of fashion? Yes, in every case, the good ole US of A.

Tim N, Bedworth, England

I totally agree with Rick.Excellent email. You hit on the spot.

A.Mullins, Bejinnig, China

I have done a fair amount of international traveling. While abroad, I have sometimes been told that we Americans are quite often rude and arrogant as guests in foreign countries. The fact that American athletes will bring their own food catering and snub the Chinese host's food is just another example of American rudeness and arrogance. If American athletes are fearful of the food, water, and air in China, then they should stay home. Otherwise they should be grateful guests at the Olympics.

George, Sacramento, CA

The best way to avoid any problems with food at the olympics is to stay home in the first place and boycott the Beijing Olympics.
Shame on China for the continueing brutality of the Tibetan people. BOYCOTT CHINA!

Szhamon Yu, Luoon, Hungary

The entire world should boycott the Chinese Olympics, for the sole reason of lack of basic, modern, human rights. It is a travesty that more are not publicly supporting the Tibetans and many others, who are suffering to get their voices heard leading up to these games. China's air, land, and water are polluted well beyond the United State's. That is a fact, not speculation. Oh, and let's not even get into the sick practice of population control where they force abortions of baby girls, or hmmm ever remember the investigative episode showing the sick practices going on in Chinese Orphanages; ever hear of dying rooms? Look it up. The Chinese are sick freaks because they do not rise up in their millions and take over their country. They are meek and spineless. And Raj from Joburg, South Africa; enough said. If you are actually living in South Africa then first of all the US is the only reason your population hasn't already died off in the millions from starvation and AIDS.

Rick, Cincinnati, US

If it was a stark choice between food provided by the Chinese authorities and the food provided by sponsors Mc Donalds, it would be no contest. Chinese wins, hands down.

Paul Mc Donald, London , UK

Do you have basic politeness in your heart? What I saw mostly is rudeness. Will you state publicly you won't eat the food provided by the host, when you are about to visit a family? Do you truely understand the Chinese culture?!
We Chinese people will provide the cleanest, healthiest, and expensive food with highest quality to serve our guests, no matter who they are and no matter when! Even if we eat a little worse, we must put as better food as possible to our guests! This is our thousands of years custom, especially for you--our honorable guests!
Some said we are covering up our poverty! Do you think it is called cover-up? Will you clean and decorate your house when you have honorable guests? We just want to show our bright side to demonstrate our hot welcome and hospitality!!
Please learn more about China! If you don't like China, you don't have to come to China, for you have your own choice! But DO NOT HUMILIATE CHINA, especially publicly!

Charles , Qingdao, PRC

"Tang Yunhua, a spokeswoman for the Beijing Municipal Office for Food Safety, said: “The standards for Olympic food safety are much more strict than international standards.”

any bets Tang's future?

Jerry W, Exton, Pa

Aramark food would be alot worse than Chinese food, being safe and sterile is the idea though. One would think each athelete would have their own food they rely on. But vendors from the host country should have the booths at the event as we would here.

Beth Andreozzi, Olema, USA

In light of the recent problems with Chinese products, including food, it would be prudent for everyone to avoid Chinese products, especially food.

Ron, Moline, USA, IL

I've made numerous trips to mainland China and I found the food there to be the best food I've ever eaten. I never got sick once. My only advice would be to stay away from the street food vendors.

Bob Seward, Los Angeles, California

You reap what you sow China and we simply don't want to consume it. Sorry if that hurts your feelings and you bruise easily. Grow up a little, take care of your environment and people (human rights) and join the rest of the non-communist world.

David, Akron, Ohio USA

As Prince Philip famously said "If it has four legs and it's not a chair, if it has two wings and it flies but it's not an airplane, and if it swims and it's not a submarine, the Chinese will eat it."

Doug Bates, St. Albans,

What about chicken from US that's injected with hormones? What about cows that are sick forced into a slaughter house? Americans are no better.

Tony L, Bangkok, Thailand

Although I am not a top athlete (I did try and failed to make the National Team in my sport) I trained very hard and my diet was critical to my success. I would not eat food in the United States that was provided to the competitors. I brought my own so that I could control all aspects of my situation there. In this way, I could train and then compete eating the exact same foods. So in fact, I don't see this as anti-Chinese, but a great strategy if you are a competitor. To someone who has not competed at a very high level, they may not understand this, but so many factors effect performance and food is the easiest to control, so you might as well do that.

Sam Chady, Boston, MA/USA

what better way to win... feed your competitors...ahhh enemies with tainted food... then your team wins lots of medals.. and these contaniments can be shipped exported all over the world.. i think the olympics are going to be a joke and a half.. boycott the watching of it..

andrew smith, joliet, il

Bill...

And if it weren't for "Americans" the Iroquois, Apache, and Cherokee would all be speaking their ancestral languages too.

Most Americans don't hold the world to debts unpaid for our interventions over the past 200 years, and most often we had something to gain or protect or we wouldn't have gone there.

China will never change unless the huge number of middle and working class Chinese foment that change, and that won't happen as long as the Chinese government maintains strict control over the mundane details of Chinese life. However, the Olympics offer at least some Chinese a glimpse at the west for what it really is - and contact with westerners. They may see that their Government isn't giving them a fair deal, and maybe that starts some thought and conversation.

If for no other reason, we should maximize Olympic staff and Athletes contact with the Chinese people in order to build those kind of bridges.

Jason, Kailua, Hawaii

It's just racism and ignorance to suggest that China, a country that feeds more than a billion people, can't provide safe food.

For those of you who insist on worrying nonetheless, recall that it is an American company that is provided and preparing the food and that it is occurring under the close supervision of nutritionists and experts from the respective participating countries.

Relax!

Chris, New York, New York, USA

Tom of Cardiff, I'm also a Westerner, an American Westerner, and I, too, eat Chinese food. But having lived here a few years, I'm critically aware of the copious amounts of insecticides used in the growing of Chinese vegetables by careless, local farmers; and Chinese fish come mainly from rivers that are horribly polluted with every imagineable contaminant. Just two days ago, I walked out of a well known Zhuhai restaurant because I was joined in my booth by the largest rat I have seen thus far in China. And I've seen a lot of rats in China. Where? Mainly in restaurants.

Rather than simply using this forum to shoot your mouth off about the U.S., try opening your eyes to the real health and sanitation conditions around you, throughout China.

China has come a long way in modernizing and bringing its country up to Western standards of health and sanitation, and it deserves credit for its efforts. Unfortunately, it still has to make an even greater effort.

Chuck, Zhuhai, China

China health issues are in proportion with its expanding economy and population....very unhealthy at it's best. Their water aquifers, rivers, lakes are contaminated, as is the air and soil. Did they expect that the plant life, animals, fish process the toxins and deliver quality nutrition? Their agriculture regulations are a minefield to be beckoned with and since inspectors are paid very little, bribery is a very common element in making decisions based on profitability instead of good and adequate science(within a range of acceptable regulations based on World Health Organization). Be warned Olympic athletes’ take your Hep A shots before eating foods in China as a precaution.......

Jerry, Hoboken, NJ

For you dopes that think eating "Asian" food here in America is the same thing as eating real Chinese food -- get a clue. It isn't the food they fear ... it's the ecoli, bacteria, Hepatitus, etc. It's also the fact that China has very few regulations regarding their food compared to the requirements of our U.S. Food & Drug Admin, meaning they can add things to their food that we in this country would not dream of putting in our food. They are experiencing Bird Flu in that country because of their third world approach to sanitation. Why should any athletes be forced to contend with scary food?

MichWolverine, Lansing, Michigan/U.S.A.

Steve, I've traveled extensively in China also and you must have done so with your eyes closed. Vegetables would be one of the worst possible risks of disease transmission because China still uses "night soil" for fertilizer. Do you know what "night soil" is Steve. It's a charmingly pleasant name for human feces.
You've spent 4-8 years or more practising and conditioning for the olympics just to be derailed by food poisoning, hepatitis, or worse.
Surely it is obvious to everyone that China has no control over manufacturers and food producers. How many recalls will it require before people realize that Chinese business will do anything, ANYTHING to inhance a profit margin. They have absolutely no interest in the welfare of their own people so why would they care about outsiders.
The last time I was in Beijing it was amazing the ends to which ther are going to cover up their substandard way of life. The atmosphere they are creating is like Disneyland, all smoke and mirrors.

bill willson, guymon, oklahoma

Athletes eat VERY SPECIAL diets, especially during competition, and they all have ALWAYS had special foods. I have competed in international competition and EVERY athlete will have a special drink, food bars, and will commonly bring in at least breakfast/lunch foods during the competition. This has NOTHING to do with Chinese food, but EVERYTHING to do with controlling the diet of top athletes.

Sam Chady, Boston, MA/USA

Why go to China at all? Why not stay at home and have your own Olympics there? That way America can win all the medals and tell everybody else what to do everone else would be happier too. Starting to get bored of all the guff that pours out of this increasingly irritating arrogant and self-absorbed nation.

raj, joburg, south africa

@responses to Soufiene's comment - heard of sarcasm?

Howard, Manchester,

I do beleive the US and any other countries should have the right to cater for their own athletes but PLEASE some American contributors - stop crowing about the fact that the US are the major medal winners. With all of the recent scandals on performance enhancing drugs by various athletes who knows how many of them were won fairly. I seem to recall that Marion Jones had to give back 5 from the 2000 olympics only recently.

Mim, Ras Al Khaimah,

The USA has won more medals in the summer games THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. China is is at #12 on the list.

I think the Americans' know better what is best for them. Get over it.

Mary Catherine, Elmhurst, US/IL

Several months ago China hosted the womens' football (soccer) world cup. I recall that there were a number of reports of American athletes becoming sick from the locally provided food. I believe that this is what is driving the American decision to bring their own food. I don't blame them a bit. Of course, I expect to hear a lot of American bashing. It's easier to insult than reason.

Albert Meeker, Wyoming, USA

Everyone understands that the US is right to have reservations about Chinese food. What is unacceptable is to publically make an issue out of these reservations.

No one goes to a man's party and announces before hand to all and sundry that he will not eat any food served at the party.

The smart thing to do is to quietly and politely decline the host's food (behind scenes) and quietly bring your own. The subtle message America is telling the whole world is that ALL Chinese food is unsafe.

Public diplomacy 101!

Kanayo, Leeds,

After all the Chinese recalls last year, it's not without merit.
1. Prior food source testing in China have shown products loaded w/ hormones, insecticides, drugs, and steroids (unnatural 35cm long 1/2 chicken breasts, for example). Suspect supplies aren't unfounded concerns.
2. WADA drug rules state that athletes are responsible for whatever is in their bodies, REGARDLESS of the source.
3. USOC provided food is to be provided/consumed until at least their final competition. After that, athletes ARE encouraged to have the local fare.
This all is to mitigate dietary & doping concerns for athletes. Why is that so hard for people to understand?

And to Soufiene, Americans don't drink 0.5 gallons of milk and eat 4.4 lbs of steak and chips a day. People barely drink that much water (or liquid) per day let alone milk and 2 stone of steak per week is absurd and beyond ridiculous.

Will E, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Don't eat the food or drink the water. You'll get Mao's revenge.

Patrick C., Orange County, CA

You have to understand the Chinese Government are not used to letting People have any freedom to choose.

Nick, Jefferson, USA/ Maryland

What do 90% of Americans know about anything outside the US? What one doesn't know of, one fears.

Peter K Day, Doncaster, UK/ Yorkshire

Chinese cuisine is a lot better than American cuisine, get over it.

John Small, Faversham, UK

since when China "should remember that if it wasn't for the US they would be speaking Japanese"? If it's not for the amazing resistance Chinese put up themselves, the Japanese would have all resources to defeat America. Americans would be speaking Japanese and probably German.

Comp, SIngapore,

Another example of US American insensibility, ethnocentricity and ignorance.
The various (regional) Chinese cuisines are among the oldest, healthiest and best in the world.
In China food is a sensuous and serious matter. In the US a shrill clown - Ronald McDonald - takes care of it.
During my many visits I have certainly eaten much better in China than in the US of A!

Oliver, Lucerne, Switzerland

The article said,a company from Philadelphia will provide the food...IT DID"T SAY WHERE THEY WOULD GET IT FROM..Locally..???...DAH.....GO U S of A team....

TimMr, san marcos, U S of A /Ca

Soufiene/Sheffield:
First of all Chinese is 'plural', you don't add an 's' to the end---Secondly, I read the papers, your obesity levels are out of control in England, so I wouldn't be throwing stones in a glass house....that's really rich coming from the land of chocolate, biscuits, fish and chips and Curry houses on every corner. Gotta love it!
World class athletes' bodies require maximum nutrition and very specific dietary needs; why would you risk years of training due to something as crucial as what you put into your body?
Boggles the mind to see how many people chomp at the bit to bash anything American. We'll get the last laugh as we rake in all the medals, ha!

Mary, San Diego, CA, USA

Wouldn't it be just great if the whole US team tested positive in drugs tests because of something in the food they imported!

The US's actions are more to do with their view that, because it is not American, it must be substandard - but wait the official caterers are a US company.

Given a choice between chinese food and amercian food, I'd prefer chinese any day.

Chris, Ashford, Middlesex, UK

I agree with the American athletes. I would not eat the food over there. I spend a lot of my time in the supermarkets here trying to make sure I don't get anything from china, especially the fish and shrimp. If I cannot determine it is not from China I don't buy it.

RuthD, Schenectady , NY

I don't blame athletes for not wanting to gamble on eating homegrown Chinese cooking and getting ill. It is too risky.

Richard, Indianapolis, USA/Indiana

This is what every one supports each time they buy a chinese product, a like it or lump it attitude! When are people going to realize, a government such as this, cares little about their own so, can't be expected to care about the world at large! It's called power over the people not, for the people!

D.Cole, Social Circle, USA/GA

Soufiene Athletes do not eat those foods you talk about in great numbers. Most Americans may eat like that but not Athletes at least not good ones. You wont see an American track star put away chips and beer during there training. Think smart now ok

jim, seattle, WA

It's retarded to expect atheletes to change their diet for these losers pride. Anyone that trains knows that would wreak havoc on their performance.

dilbert, ford, usa

This is another glaring example of a failure in public diplomacy. In most non-western cultures, it is acceptable to politely decline food that the host provides.

What is unacceptable is to loudly and openly announce that you:
1. You will not eat the hosts meals.
2. You will be bringing your own food.

In my society (I come from Africa). That is the height of insult, (I suspect the same applies in China). Westerners, may not understand this because because the Western man does not have the same deep sense of cultural identity.

This is a painful slap on the face of the Chinese people (I suspect 'face' means as much to them as it means to members of my ethnic group). America will LIVE to regret this thoughtless statement MANY years after the event.

Nothing stopped the Americans from quietly making their feeding arrangements - instead they chose to announce their feeding arrangements on the news media.

Why? You want to rub in the fact that Chinese food is poison?

Kanayo, Leeds,

Steven,

Have you ever actually been to China and eaten the food? If not, then you don't know what your talking about. The local Chinese restaurant is not representative of actual Chinese food. Also, rice isn't consumed in all parts of China. Some areas eat mostly noodles, which originated from China.

While the US has its issues with food supply, it's nothing compared to the environmental problems plaguing China. So what if they want their own food?

People focus on the most ridiculous things and ignore the true injustices of the world yet again.

Cletus, Washington, DC

"China should remember that if it wasn't for the US they would be speaking Japanese . "

Good grief. Get over yourselves, Americans. Presumably you're the same type of yank numpty who trots out rubbish about how the UK would be speaking German were it not for your late-entrance-destroy-it-if-it-moves into WWII?

The most terrifying thing is that you actually, genuinely believe such statements. What a wonderful propaganda machine you have. The Chinese must be stealing covetous glances....

Ian Ascough, Harpenden, ENGLAND

Hungry in an hour is a good one ,William. I been all over China and the food is one of the best things to experience next to the beer.

Mike, Duluth, MN

China wants to be a world economic leader. So, let them compete like the rest of us. If China's food isn't good, isn't safe, isn't competitive---consumers should have other choices/resources.

Bob, Louisville, KY

As someone who lives in China, I think you are all being a little bit reactionist - like you never have food scares in Europe, America or other continents. Millions of meals are served and safely eaten here EVERY day,and most of those who criticise know absolutely nothing about China and just jump on the senationalist bandwagon of the western popular press!!

Foss, Shanghai, China

How come then, having lived here in China for 3 years I have never once eaten a chicken breast the size of a car? In fact, my complaint is that the chicken breasts are not big enough.

I agree there are many problems in China reagrding food quality, but no country is exempt from these problems. Furthermore, you all speak as if the Chinese government isn't aware of these issues - of course they are! Which means the Olympic committee will not exactly be serving up what one would buy from a local rice shop.

vix, China,

WOW!

So now, people can't even eat the food they want to without being criticised by the Chinese and some people here. PATHETIC!

Mary Catherine, Elmhurst, US/IL

Has no one noticed the contract caterer for the Olympics is Aramark, based in Philadelphia - which I'll presume isn't a name shared by a city in China? If the US team was so worried about food safety, perhaps their officials should have vetoed having the Olympics in Beijing.

sophia b, toronto, canada

While 'rice is rice, and veggies are veggies' it also has to do with how they are grown, stored and prepared. I've travelled in China a few times and have seen more than a few questionable practices of food storage and preparation. Even in the 'normal' restaurants and not the street markets I had to be very cautious of what I was eating.

Lisa, Idaho,

In my opinion, The Olympics shouldn't be held in countries that engaged in violent behavior that contravenes basic human rights, and that goes for the United States, too. No Olymipcs for either country if you ask me! Seems a bit sick to have such a huge celebration of 'peace' and brotherhood in a country which isn't free or democratic and jails people for being independent thinkers. I will not be watching the Olympics. It's just another case where China's economic dominance helped it to get something it didn't deserve in the first place. IOC has its priorities wrong!

Keith, Raleigh, NC , USA

I know a few athletes who are so tight with their training regimins that their diets are totaly custom to intake nutrition in a predictable way. Carbs/sugars, fats and what not. THey undertsnad how their bodies react to these nutrients and considering the stakes, arn't willing to throw that out at this time. Heck hard core cyclist have been carbo loading for eyars for the Tour ^_^

mauricio, Pahrump, NV

I can't believe people don't see this for what this really is- an overreaction by a by zealous and hubristic Chinese Olympics officials. Those officials care more about their image than realizing that the trend of preferring "Organic" vegetables, fruit, meat, and other food products is popular in the U.S. and other Western countries. That trend is normal and nothing out of the ordinary.

Steve, New York, New York

We win more medals because we send the best athletes in the world to the Olympics. Go Red, White, and Blue.

David. R. Joshua, Ixonia,

Much of this is due to America's wish to insult China. The US, helpless in the face of the booming economy of China, looks for ways to retaliate with minor insults. Of course if one wants to talk about toxic exports, one might mention the export of US debt instruments (subprime mortgage toxic waste) that have poisoned financial institutions around the world including Barclays and UBS and Credit Suisse, etc., etc.,etc., costing them their financial health.

Hal, Tucson,

USA is hardly a world power vis a vis cuisine. Is it true that there were problems at GATT talks about growth hormones in US meats??
The contracter at the Olympics is a US contracter
I dônt pretend to understand anything any more!!

john, nice, france

The issue is not merely one of protecting the digestive health of athletes, but also of the sometimes hidden dangers in the Chinese food supply. In an article published several days ago in the NYTimes, the head nutritionist of the USOC described visiting China last year and testing a typically oversized chicken breast found in a Chinese market - it contained such high levels of steroids that athletes who ingested it would fail a drugs test.

Michael, Munich, Germany

I was born in China, grew up in my father's Chinese restaurant in the US and now live in London. I have eaten my share of Chinese food. The issue is not Chinese food but food from China. My mother in San Francisco told me not to eat foods imported from China as it has become well known in the community that the sub-standard food can be potentially dangerous to your health. I will never buy any food product again from China.

As tourists, we can eat the local cuisine without ill effect (hopefully) but as high powered athletes who rely on food as fuel, it is the smart thing to do to cater your own food. From what I have read the chickens in China are HUGE, the size of a compact car from all the steroids. I don't think any athlete would want to risk losing a medal because of testing positive for steroids from the chicken dinner the night before. A lot of countries will complain because it's America that's doing it. If all countries could afford to bring their own food, they should.

John T, London, England

I lived in China for two years and traveled extensively throughout the country. I can see both points of view. While the food in many local restaurants and cantines is often questionable, I seriously doubt that there would be any issues with food served to Olympic athletes. China couldn't allow this kind of loss of face. I got sick there a few times and once had to go to the hospital with violent food poisoning, so I think the athlete's concerns are not unwarranted, but they should understand this in the contex of the Olympics more than the reality in China. China will not allow the Olympics to reflect what life is really like there, and we should allow them to have their day without insult, for the benefit of our relations. The athletes are healthy, so they'll be fine.

Pete , Baltimore, MD, USA

Unlike Chineses, Americans eat a lot: Hamburgers, 4 pints of milk, 2 Kg of Steak, cheaps, beers, pop-corns ... Each day. So, they are well doing by taking their food with them. Otherwise, the Olympic games would be too expensive for China. Chineses should be happy with that American initiative.

Soufiene, Sheffield, UK

who cares?!

Mark, Buzard, Indiana, USA

I think it is a sensible precaution. Imagine that you have been training your whole life for one event. You may not get a second chance in four years. Wouldn't it be a shame if you got the trots the day before you compete, getting dehydrated and all that? It's just one more level of insurance.

I don't know how much has to do with China specifically as it is with traveling to a different country and competing in a high-stakes athletic event. If the athletes were just sightseeing, I'm sure they would eat local stuff without a second thought. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if other countries do the same thing. And I wouldn't care if the Chinese did the same before competing in the U.S.

And yes, Drudge has a completely erroneous headline up.

Mike, Virginia, USA

Can someone explain why the last quote in this article is supposed to be reassuring? Shouldn't ALL food standards be equally high?

-LJ, San Francisco,

For Lynn of Orlando Florida.

You opinion of American arrogance is out of line. You appear to be one of those who blame everything that happens in the world on America. Just maybe, just maybe, this in the best interest of American athletes health. Just a thought.

Dale, Raleigh, NC

Personally I don't understand why we're bothering to go to the Olympics (in China) anyways. ((shrugs)) But, yeah....if you're going to travel to a country you should eat the food while you're there.

LeRoy, Fairbanks, Alaska

Well I think it is quite ridiculous that the US is bringing its own food to China. I have eaten many meals in China with no ill affects. Perhaps the beef the US imports will be part of the 134 millions pounds the USDA recalled last week. Like the US has a perfect record on it's food production and distribution. Get real.

Mark, Cherry Valley, Illinois

I came to this article after clicking a link on DrudgeReport.com entitled "China bans American food... ".

I see no reference here to China banning American food. Talk about misleading folks in a way that exacerbates an already incensed relationship between China and the USA. Thanks a lot, Matt.

John, Phoenix, Arizona

Once again, US Olympic arogance raises it's head. It's no wonder we are viewed as elitists. We get more medals because we send more athletes - not because we eat American veggies.

Lynn, Orlando, FL

Some of these comments are going a little overboard. The interesting point is that the Olympic committee has contracted with an American company to do the catering and yet it is the American team that is bringing its own food.

I have eaten quite well in China at a variety of restaurants to no ill effect- but then, I wasn't about to compete in a world-class one-time sport event...

Kathryn, Minneapolis, USA

Way to make friends Bill!

Tom, Cardiff,

Are these people joking!? The Chinese eat HEALTHIER and TASTIER food than the Western counterparts! I am a Westener, and I eat Asian food all the time. Rice is rice, fish is fish, veggies are still veggies... Wow - the politics in the US is really starting to brainwash everyone there... sad, sad...

Steven, Virginia,

Is there anything that doesn't offend the Chinese? They're getting
a little tedious. You are a big boy now, stop acting like a two year old.
If you are a country bringing a team to this Olympics and you don't bring your own food you're crazy, for a lot of reasons.

Steven C., New Jersey, USA

We can't trust them to make pet food that doesn't kill. I think bringing your own food is a pretty good idea. China's not exactly a quality control sorta country.

Bryan, Enid, Ok US

The history books will show that World War lll started over brown bagging policy.

Mike, Fort Wayne, Indiana

ofcourse:
it will be food without dopping .
dimitris
athens

dimitris, athens, greece

we are afraid we will be hungry again in an hour

william smith, venice,

who cares?

Jeff, stratford, ct

WHAT??? You should not even let your children play with toys from China due to lead posioning .Why should we trust them to provide food to our athletes ??? Their "high" standards don't exist .
China should remember that if it wasn't for the US they would be speaking Japanese .

Bill, Wichita, USA

There is no way I would ever eat the local food in China if I had the ability to provide my own. Their history of having no regard for public safety and quality of their food in the past makes avoiding it a simple act of common sense.

Marc Borror, Levittown, Pa

"Tang Yunhua, a spokeswoman for the Beijing Municipal Office for Food Safety, said: “The standards for Olympic food safety are much more strict than international standards.”

Oh yeahhhh, that makes me feel like going out for Chinese tonight.... I think NOT, maybe never again!

Jerry W, Exton, Pa