Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/weir...Cooking-in-China-129713913.html#ixzz1YA70N8H6 I have seen the new low of human beings.
That's just too disgusting... how does one come up with the idea of doing such thing... wth... there's always gotta be some crazy ass news from china... damn
It's actually not very surprising ... fake eggs, fried plastics used as "fried onions", fake drywall, etc.
isn't this old news.. thats why its like damn.. all that good ass food in china.. but you don't even know how it's being prepared..
Another thread to the collection of "Only In China" Some times the food seems so good, but yet you dont know how the fuck is it being prepared. Good thing they did get caught though..
Not to appear to be on my high horse or anything; but, I just don't understand how people can stoop so low ...
Well prices are going up globally and people can't afford it, thats why they have to use such dirty tricks. I heard from my uncle working in that China that if you eat in a more expensive resturant they will use legit oil but of course the dish is gonna be a lot more expensive.
shoot I wouldn't be surprised if even the high end restaurants cut corners. But it's like such a shame.. because some smaller restaurants have the better food, but you'll have doubts from hearing stories like these. like even if you're poor.. or whatever the reason may be.. doing that kinda shit isn't going to help the country you live in. And imagine you raise your kids there.. you wouldn't want them growing up eating oil from gutter or shit that gives them birth defects. It's ridiculous how selfish people can be.
i'm more concerned with the fact that they are trying to sell recycled oil. I mean think about it, gasoline leaks could also get mixed into it. These are hydrocarbons, they would tend to like to mingle and mix with other hydrocarbons, but that doesn't necessarily mean only cooking oils. It could also mean like other oils or whatever else that could end up in the drains (maybe even engine oil... etc). The point of the story is, no matter how much you try to refine these oils, you'd need to spend quite a sum of money in the end to get a high grade refined oil. And to spend that sum is unthinkable, so obviously they'd just filter out any visible chunks, add some flavouring, voila. Man. This is like going above and beyond to selfishness and inconsideration of the general public.
This is actually rather old news. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/world/asia/01shanghai.html http://www.chinasmack.com/2009/pictures/recycled-slop-swill-cooking-oil.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012401550_apaschinagutteroil.html http://english.sina.com/china/p/2010/0321/309911.html After hearing about how some used to sell chunks of human flesh (harvested from corpses) disguised as pork, I'm neither surprised or shocked at what Chinese can and are willing to do to one another anymore; just another day in the People's Republic.
which reminds me of this camera someone once made that can detect what it is focusing on. When it focused on cameraman's hand... it said "bacon".
I only wish I were. Spoiler: From a New York Times book review a decade ago Horror of a Hidden Chinese Famine By RICHARD BERNSTEIN Published: February 05, 1997 HUNGRY GHOSTS Mao's Secret Famine By Jasper Becker, Illustrated, 352 pages. Free Press. $25. Near the end of 1959, with China in the midst of Chairman Mao Zedong's crazily utopian Great Leap Forward, the official Communist Party newspaper issued some dietary instruction for the masses of the country's newly collectivized agricultural workers. ''The peasants must practice strict economy,'' The People's Daily intoned. ''Live with the utmost frugality and eat only two meals a day, one of which should be soft and liquid.'' Life and history are in the details, and one of the many virtues of this disturbing and important book by the British journalist Jasper Becker is its attention to the small, concrete matters that display larger, more abstract ones in the fullness of their horror and absurdity. ''Hungry Ghosts'' is Mr. Becker's powerful, sober, lucid and sometimes lurid account of what was probably the worst famine in history, the one that resulted from Mao's blindly misguided and ruthlessly enforced attempt to achieve Communism overnight. For the party newspaper to tell people that it was good for them to eat less at a time when it was also spinning fantasies about the bounty being engendered by the Great Leap was a relatively small, if telling, irony. At the larger, horrific center of Mr. Becker's account is the widespread resort among the Chinese people to that most sickening form of desperation: cannibalism, the selling of human flesh on the market, the swapping of children so people could use them for food without committing the additional sin of eating their own. It has of course been known for many years that the Great Leap produced a terrible calamity in China lasting from roughly 1959 to 1962. But Mr. Becker, who is the Beijing bureau chief of The South China Morning Post, has written the most compelling and complete account of that calamity, describing it systematically as it affected the countryside, the cities and the immense network of camps for ''rightists'' and other political prisoners that China maintained at the time. As his account unfolds, Mr. Becker puts to rest once and for all whatever illusions about the Great Leap may have survived less exhaustive studies. The most extreme of those illusions, generated in those years by pro-Chinese writers like Edgar Snow and Han Suyin, was that no famine took place at all. Another more widely accepted one is that it was the unavoidable product of a series of especially harsh natural disasters. Mr. Becker makes clear that Mao himself and his adoption of policies that had already proved disastrous in the Soviet Union were responsible for the famine, which affected virtually every province in China, the agriculturally richest of them most of all. The Government basically took the food away from the farmers who produced it and then, assuming that any shortfalls in grain deliveries were due to hoarding by the ideologically untrustworthy, mercilessly harassed them in ''anti-grain hiding'' campaigns. ''China was at peace,'' Mr. Becker writes. ''No blight destroyed the harvest. There were no unusual floods or droughts. The granaries were full and other countries were ready to ship in grain. And the evidence shows that Mao and the Chinese bureaucracy were in full control of the machinery of government.'' Mr. Becker shows, especially in his passages on cannibalism, that what happened was a lot more grisly than most writers until now have imagined. His conclusions seem solid even though he fails in many places to state clearly his sources of information, or to assess the validity of various pieces of evidence. He uses many documents, among them a 600-page study based on county records in one of the worst-hit provinces, Anhui. The document was intended only for circulation among senior Chinese officials but was smuggled out of the country after the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989. It reports, among many other things, that in the single county of Fengyang, all the inhabitants of 21 villages died. It also records 63 cases of cannibalism. Mr. Becker supplements the documentary record with numerous interviews, especially of peasants living in the areas where the famine took place. Where he is clear about his source and names it -- as he does, for example, with that People's Daily admonition -- his book is an astonishing chronicle both of human folly and evil. But sometimes he includes information without giving the reasons he found the information credible. For example, Mr. Becker, illustrating the fanaticism of local officials, cites a production brigade in Henan Province that accepted relief grain belatedly shipped by the national Government but then sent it back, presenting it as the fruits of participation in the ''anti-grain hiding'' campaign. Mr. Becker cites ''confidential sources'' for that remarkable story. He needs to give more assurances that he is not simply passing along just about any horror story he heard. Still, Mr. Becker's sober tone, the comprehensiveness of his research and his knowledge of the political background give his overall account a strong aura of believability. His analysis of the famine's main causes is well documented -- the most important being that the party encouraged officials to inflate grain production figures, then used those figures to justify seizing all the grain of a locality, leaving nothing for the local people to eat. And he seems to have heard enough accounts of cannibalism from widely separated areas to justify his most shocking conclusion: that it may have taken place ''on a scale unprecedented in the history of the 20th century.'' Near the end of his account, Mr. Becker tries to estimate the number of people who died unnatural deaths as a result of the policies imposed during the Great Leap, citing one scholar's figure of 30 million to be the most believable. But Mr. Becker says that ''from a moral perspective'' the debate over numbers is ''meaningless.'' China managed to hide the very fact of the famine for 20 years, and even now, its extent and real causes are glossed over in official accounts as part of the effort to protect Mao's already tarnished reputation. Mr. Becker's remarkable book, which firmly establishes the Great Leap and the resulting famine as one of the worst atrocities of all time, strikes a heavy blow against willed ignorance of what took place. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/05/books/horror-of-a-hidden-chinese-famine.html I actually read this book several years ago, and it is absolutely riveting. It is still available new, from Amazon (LINK) for about $14 USD. If you had to read only one book about the effect of the Great Leap Forward on the people of China, this should be it.
^ ewww... psychopaths... these kinda horror stories are just unbelievable sometimes... the crazy stuff the people do in china... reminds me of that miriam yeung movie, abt the cha siu bao's she made of her victims.... i never heard about this... my mum told me that they made buns outta papers tho... -_-...
This remind me of the article about Japan making pooo into burgers. But the difference is that the poo is apparently safer to eat than the oil. Anyway, would you like some fries with those oil?
