Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.

It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    I’m on the fence about whether it matters or not, that they might only do so to politically save face. ⚖️

    • Nora
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      4 months ago

      At least they save face… Wouldn’t mind some more face saving over here.

      • jerkface@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        If all you save is face, THEN YOU HAVE SAVED NOTHING. What do you mean we don’t do this over here, this is all we fucking do. We don’t solve problems, we just market them.

        • Nora
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          4 months ago

          I can’t recall any other countries executing their rich for things like this. Can you?

          Especially in the west. In the west they just take a part of their profits as a trivial fine.

          • jerkface@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            4 months ago

            I can’t have a conversation with someone advocating murder and wondering why I’m not impressed.

            • alcoholicorn
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              4 months ago

              Advocating the death penalty for people who’ve committed mass social murder is not murder.

              White collar crime like this is the only case where the death penalty might be useful, since these people actually do a risk-benefit analysis.