China wants to make bricks from toxic milk: report

[Doctor Cynic]

Source: AFP

BEIJING (AFP) – A south China city is considering using milk at the centre of a poisoned food scandal to make bricks as a cheap and clean way of disposing of the tainted products, state media reported Tuesday.

Guangzhou officials are looking into the viability of dumping the toxic products, found to have been tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, into furnaces that make bricks and cement, the Nanfang Daily reported, citing Wang Fan, director of the city's food safety office.

The plan comes after some Guangzhou garbage stations earlier this month poured tainted milk into rivers, triggering concerns the city's water supply would be contaminated, it said.

Using the milk products in the manufacturing process is estimated to cost 700 yuan (105 dollars) for each tonne of milk processed, more than 70 percent cheaper than burning it in garbage incinerators, earlier media reports said.

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[texastoast]

1. When can we bring our jobs home?

I'm so sick of our enslavement of these poor people who live in this place. And why again can't I go to Cuba?

[ksimons]

2. Someone will build a Child Care Center from those bricks...

... and you know how kids like to lick the walls.

tsk tsk tsk

[Frank Cannon]

3. The Chinese are great at crafting their toxic waste into consumer products

It's a terrific business model, when you think about it. Instead of worrying about where you're going to put all that toxic garbage from your billions of people, you just fashion it into stuff and sell it back to them.

It's even better when you can sell that shit overseas.

[Benhurst]

4. They can make the milk into milk fiber to be used for the cloth needed for the

hundreds of thousands of U.S. flags they churn out each year.