Puke: China recycles cooking oil... from raw sewage

[BigBearJohn]

Chinese cooking oil siphoned from restaurants' waste tanks and stripped out of raw sewage is being resold on the cheap and has for years tainted approximately one out of every ten meals cooked in the eastern nation, according to a recent study.

The revelation, first noted by state media, sent Chinese health inspectors into a snit as they scrambled to reassure the public that the claims were being investigated.

"He Dongping, a professor at the Wuhan Polytechnic University, has been studying the problem for seven years," newspaper Epoch Times noted. "According to China Youth Daily, he found that China recycles an estimated two million to three million tons of waste oil per year. Combining that figure with the estimated 22.5 million tons of total vegetable oil and animal fat consumed by the Chinese per year, it is estimated that 10 percent is returning to people’s dining tables."

The only apparent difference between the toxic sewage oil and normal oil is the remarkable price difference, with the tainted cooking stock selling for approximately half the price of its' legitimate competitor.

"In addition to an effective method of detection having yet to be found, the difficulty is compounded once the illegal oil has been blended into ordinary ones," state media China Daily reported. The 'illegal cooking oil' is usually made from discarded kitchen waste that has been refined . Although it looks clean and clear, it actually contains toxic substances, including 'aflatoxin', which can cause cancer."

SOURCE: http://rawstory.com/2010/03/chinese-consumed-millions-gallons-toxic-sewage-oil-study/

[PearliePoo2]

1. I read EVERY label

If it's Made In China, it stays on the shelf.
fuckers.
:puke:
Oh...and that cheap Chinese soy sauce at the dollar store? double puke...:puke: :puke:

[Turbineguy]

2. Another proof that

free markets when left to function without government interference are best.:sarcasm:

[closeupready]

3. Who needs muckrakers when unregulated capitalism indicts itself?

n/t

[Cirque du So-What]

4. K & R

People would do well to consider that similar horror stories could play out here as well if not for pesky regulations and big-government agencies like the FDA. If conservatives and libertarians had their way, we wouldn't even know when these travesties occurred. Don't kid yourself into thinking that cultural differences are so great that such things could never happen here - that American CEOs are compassionate to a fault and have nothing but the best interests of their customers at heart. Fear of financial loss and possible imprisonment (unlikely, I know, but a boy can dream, can't he?) are the only things keeping these capitalistas at bay, and they wouldn't hesitate to let us eat shit and die.

[loudsue]

5. Dream on. It's most likely sold right now at WalMart grocery stores

Anyone that thinks there are governmental barriers to our food these days needs to re-check which country we've been living in for the past 14 years. Since the Gingrich revolution during the republican Clinton years, we have had almost no protection whatsoever.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. Yes, but

we still have the meager protection offered by requirements that food packaging reveal country of origin. I want to raise awareness that 'made in China' may mean you're eating human sewage. I don't spend time on an internet discussion board strictly to grouse about how bad things are; I want to motivate others to join me in an attempt to turn things around. If I've succumbed to apathy, then my online presence would make me, well, just a fucking troll trying to inspire even more apathy in others. If I thought I was wasting my time, I would already be long gone.

[TalkingDog]

6. China has always embodied the phrase: Caveat Emptor n/t