My comment that American's are spoiled is being totally misinterpreted. We ARE spoiled in that we've managed to defeat, suppress and eliminate a lot of diseases, health and safety issues that other people around the world have to deal with on a daily business. We don't (normally) have to worry about the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, etc., etc., etc. We EXPECT our world to be relatively safe. We actually have agencies that are trying to keep things safe and healthy for us. Not so in a lot of foreign countries. It's an anomaly here when garbage like Flint, Michigan pops up, when Ecoli shows up on lettuce, when toxic waste is discovered. and other such nasty stuff. Although it does seem to be happening more and more often....and we certainly could be doing even better.
Travel though some third world countries and you'll wonder how those folks are not dying by the truck loads. I've actually been to a Chinese "Wet Market"...OMG talk about nasty, filthy, fly filled, disease ridden place. Do you know why the Chinese buy their food LIVE? Because that's the only way they know their meat if fresh and isn't rotting and totally diseased, and even then I would question the quality and safety. How about all those Asian babies dying from their baby formula because some Chinese manufacturer substituted something of a "SIMILAR NAME" for one of the main ingredients and killed thousands of infants? Or the dog food debacle just a couple of years back. Same thing....something toxic substituted so they could make more money.
There is no way I'd knowingly consume ANYTHING manufactured, processed, touched or handled by China, and this is not anything new to me. I haven't trusted anything coming out of that country for a long long time.
I grew up in an era where you had to worry about catching Polio and TB. Cancer wasn't even talked about. It was whispered as the "C" word. Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chicken Pox, Whooping Cough/Pertussis were normal "childhood diseases. Yep....we kind of are spoiled when you really think about it.