BEIJING (AFP) - Ordinary Chinese are refusing to believe government claims that a recent media report on cardboard-filled buns was a hoax aimed at hyping the nation's food safety woes, state press said Saturday. The government's assertion that the televised report was bogus is being viewed as an attempt by authorities to stem the bad publicity over a series of recent food safety scandals that have caused anger in China and abroad, the official Xinhua news agency said. "I guess government departments must be hoping to reduce the negative impact on the public by declaring the TV news report a hoax," Xinhua quoted Chen Huiqin, a retired Shanghai middle school teacher, as saying. A cab driver, surnamed Liu, said he could not believe the investigative news report aired by Beijing TV on July 8 was a fabrication. "It's not just me, most of my customers didn't believe it was a hoax either," the report quoted Liu as saying. The report generated wide national and international attention as the latest in a string of scares involving China-produced foods, including toxic seafood, virus-plagued pigs and chemical-laden toothpaste. The "expose" purportedly showed a seller of the buns, known as "baozi," softening shredded cardboard with an industrial chemical and fortifying the bogus meat with a bit of fatty pork. But following government inspections, the authorities concluded that the report was a hoax perpetrated by a temporary Beijing television station employee. Police have subsequently detained six people in connection with the case. Earlier this month, China executed the former head of its food and drug safety watchdog for corruption, in what was widely seen as an attempt by the government to show it is serious about the problem. I think someone posted something about this before. and now the government is trying to cover it up -sick2 Here's a vid of it [youtube]cOFNGsMUTnM[/youtube]
goodness ... yet another China product. i really need to stop buying stuff from China before I ate something toxic and die!
wow did ppl see da news? it was this baby pouder milk thing.. and it was made somewhere.. but not china.. it was a fake.. and they found a baby get sick from that..
but according to the Chinese government the news investigation was all a hoax and the food in China is 100% safe. -rolleyes
well.. we wun really know.. the locals dun believe it doesnt mean its false. although i dun expect a news report to be a hoax..
^probably was a hoax, if buns are made out of cardboard, im sure people would notice pretty quick... it doesnt take someones death before you figure its cardboard... if it can even kill someone
my mum told me about this, we're going to china at the end of this yr, and i love to eat... eat .... and eat... she totally freaked me out but i had doubts... but not anymore... i feel full already...
looin at the video there are both sides to the arguement. 1) The video is a hoax given the fact that the bun owner's faces aint revealed. It thus suggest that the camera wants the bun owners to remain anonamous to the public. 2)It could be ture because the government wants to cover their tracks up...
Oh yeah read about this story too and although this cardboard meat story might be a hoax, I don't think it's totally impossible there are chinese using cardboards or other stuff to make fake meat as they do produce a lot of fake things, including fake food like that baby powder. (and those fake eggs story?)
I think they cover his face to protect him. It is a communist country after all. If they find out he is giveing bad publicity to China, he is gonna be hang or shot. yea. the chinese always doing shit like that.
^i dont think its a cover up, since they have so many food scares, why would they need to cover this one up, it has no particular significance and the idea that the reporter couldnt get a story so made one up, is more plausible to me
i think all countries has their fill of making counterfiet products, its just that China tends to be country who gets the most flames.
