SocraticGadfly: Can we bring our own air, too?

February 21, 2008

Can we bring our own air, too?

China officially “regrets” that the U.S. Olympic Team is bringing its own food supply to Beijing this summer. Well, given all the scandals of recent months, from pet food tainted with a plasticizing compound to toys swathed in lead paint, what do they expect?

(Also, some athletes worry that the amount of growth-boosting drugs used on Chinese livestock could produce positive doping tests.)

The heck with that — what’s Beijing smog, even with any short-term Chinese clean-up, going to do to a marathoner’s lungs?

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