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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR
My first guess would not be that someone did this on purpose but you never know.It's possible that the poison was used to control rats in the field where the wheat was grown.That was possibly in China.Why would you buy wheat from China with all the wheat we have here?Good question.
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Here is the information cut and pasted from WMUR:
Earlier, ABC News reported that the chemical was on wheat imported from China. However, at the news conference Commissioner Patrick Hooker and Donald Smith, dean of veterinary medicine at Cornell University, said that they could not confirm the source of the contamination.
Sadly, the reason is probably as simple as the fact that wheat from China is cheaper than wheat from Canada or the USA.
I always consider Occam's razor..."All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one." .. when trying to figure out "why" things happen.
From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
As the world economy becomes more "global" the controls we try to put on imported products are made useless.
Sad