American food and all things evil

It all began last night about four hours after consuming what I originally deemed a healthy, nutritious meal.  You've got to understand that as an aspiring dietitian, I do my best to seek out holistic food options (i.e. of the non-high fructose/soy lecithin/xanthum gum variety; please read The Omnivore's Dilemma).  So you can imagine the guilt and dismay I felt after learning from my mom of all people, (and then a news article) that the tilapia I had for four months (and just hours earlier) religiously consumed had been imported from the "friendly" waters of where else but China.  China!  A country whose government does little to regulate anything let alone its food, where only months back its own infants were killed by ingesting melamine, a toxic chemical put in baby formula to cut costs by giving it a milky color with half the milk.  This is a country that abuses human rights and fails to abide by any universal codes of decency.  Yet somehow the U.S. sees no problem in importing fish that is reared to prime in filthy water and fortified to withstand its own toxicity through injections of antibiotics and other banned chemical compounds.  Thanks a lot, FDA.  Which brings me to a larger point here--the Food and Drug Administration.  An institution supposedly derived to ensure that the food in this country is safe.  However, currently while the U.S. imports 80% of its seafood from overseas countries such as China and Vietnam, the FDA inspects only 2% of the fish that is imported and sold to our restaurants and grocery stores.  It claims it doesn't have the necessary authority and funding to do so.  Right now the Senate has been given the opportunity to vote on the so-called Food Safety bill (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510&tab=summary) that, if passed, would give the FDA the funds (nearly $1.4 billion dollars over the next 4 years) it needs to regulate the industry, but it probably won't be passed because Republicans don't want to spend the money.  They'd rather extend the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest 2% of Americans, than have safe and nontoxic food to eat.  Please, tell me how a tax cut is going to bolster the economy?  I'd personally like to have the trillions of dollars back that were spent on the Iraq war and then maybe I wouldn't have to be sitting here right now contemplating the contents of my contaminated insides (and I realize this is a huge understatement).  Obviously in light of the larger picture, a few tainted tilapia don't signal a significant crisis, but as the old adage goes, "the devil is in the details."  Here's an idea, FDA, if a country still puts lead in its toys, it's probably best to steer clear of its fish too.