i admit i have no evidence for my statement, other than 1. industry PR and 2. the only non-BPA canned beans are an organic brand ,,, but its organic so the price difference could be the organic-ness not the bpa-free-ness

are not going to care about BPA.. they are too worried about how to buy any food at all. (note inside of cans is lined with BPA and prices WILL GO UP if it is changed. go up as in, consumers will stop buying it because the main point of buying it is low price and speed of preparation)

they will put it right up there with 'hurting our GDP growth, endangering our stranglehold on political power, and destroying the economic power base of the Party leadership' uh huh.

if the US said 'we cancel all your treasury securities' it would be effectively the US defaulting on a couple hundred billion dollars worth of debt. when you default on your debt, your 'credit rating' goes to crap and nobody wants your currency anymore. the middle east could move oil off the dollar if China wanted them to, think if China was a bigger customer than the US was, why wouldn't they just move oil to sell in Euros or RMB? secondly, what if they just decided to short the US dollar and liquidate their treasuries at the same time? why not?

some people think it doesnt matter, some people think it does.

some of the finest people in history have been shitcanned and blackballed for simply saying the truth, no matter how politely, professionally, or curteously they did it.

i love china, because i can buy an ipod for 75 dollars. i dont care who they kill to do it. im a capitalist, free market uber alles!!