US Olympic Athletes Will Pack Their Own Lunches in Beijing

This may be rude, but it's one way to make sure that nobody ends contaminated food . . . The US Olympic team now says that it will take its own food to Beijing this summer.

The discourtesy is overridden, I think, by the endless reports of unsafe Chinese food products. Heck, I don't blame the athletes one bit. In fact, I will also suggest that maybe they should consider wearing surgical masks when competing outside in Beijing's deplorably bad air pollution.