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.

  • Flying SquidM
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    291 month ago

    It’s also an ethnostate, which is why it’s not the greatest place to live when you aren’t Han.

    • @turmacar
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      91 month ago

      I know what you’re talking about, but got an image of Harrison Ford being absolutely pampered in China. Which in fairness would probably happen.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      1 month ago

      It’s also an ethnostate

      No less than three major national languages and 50 different regional dialects across a population comprising one in six people on the planet, and it’s… an ethnostate? Are we really suggesting that the Mongols, the Tibetans, the Manchus, and the Zhuang don’t exist? Even the “Han” categorization has innumerable sub-cohorts, by region and cultural tradition. These would constitute entire countries elsewhere in the world.

      But hey…

      Maybe this looks like an ethnostate to you.

      • Flying SquidM
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        181 month ago

        Cool, how many Tibetans hold major positions in the government? How many Uyghurs?

          • Flying SquidM
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            171 month ago

            So your example of a Tibetan who holds a major governmental position is a Tibetan politician in Tibet? Really?

              • Flying SquidM
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                101 month ago

                “It’s not an ethnostate because people only hold top governmental positions in regions where their ethnicities dominate” is not the argument you think it is.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          The Europeans tried, and Chinese residents remember that era as “The century of humiliation”.

          I would have more money on the UK cracking up than China.