Do you think US press is way more obsessed with Chinese product safety than US product safety?

It's funny to watch all these stories about Chinese product safety.

Usually the MSM doesn't want to say anything that would hurt sales...unless we're worried about corporate profits on a bigger scale, apparently.

I get the sense that 90% of US product safety stories are totally ignored. And when they aren't, they're usually couched in lies. For example, there was that story about e-coli in California lettuce a couple months ago. The press went into overdrive blaming wild pig shit. A couple weeks ago I saw a small story in the newspaper saying that it was probably human feces (so the real story would have been that employers aren't giving their employees bathroom breaks so they have to shit in the fields, which would then turn the story into one about workers' right being good for consumers too, which the press doesn't want to touch).

And someone should be exploiting the lack of product safety of Chinese products more than the media has been.
US Companies would be run out of business for selling the products that have come from China but we just keep buying more and more.

The problem lies in standards and enforcement - or lack thereof. Spend some time in China, or talk to any business traveller (not casual tourist), and you'll see that food safety is a huge and real concern.

It might not be perfect, but it isn't like it is in China or some other third world countries.
As a whole industry, the food industry has alos been adapting better quality practices as well. Big companies have strict policies and are demanding similiar standards from their ingredient suppliers within the U.S. Some companies are hesitant to pay foreign suppliers visits for both monetary and personal safety reasons.

However, suddenly the media is the consumer's best friend the last couple of weeks, because, perhaps, the dollar is under threat and US corporate profits are threatened?

But here in Wisconsin, we are regularly visited by state and federal regulatory agencies. We must also pass three annual audits by customers or done on their behalf, which includes them looking at records. We also perodically have customers visiting our plant who demand tours.
At the previous plant, I worked at it was the same situation. We had to fix a minor problem, which probably would not have caused anyone to get sick, or be shut down by a state inspector.

I'm sure there are laws that require employers to give their employees bathroom breaks.

The media repeated a thousand times on day two of their reporting that wild pages caused that.

Which wasn't true, and I think they were deliberately lying.

That's how product safety is discussed by the MSM if it's going to hurt US corporate profits.

on earth would we buy food from the chinese