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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.

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.

  • @TokenBoomerEnglish
    -2•5 months ago

    Not explicitly, but implicitly it’s in the link from SSJMarx.

    Marx from the “German Ideology:”

    It is only possible to achieve real liberation in the real world and by employing real means, that slavery cannot be abolished without the steam-engine and the mule and spinning-jenny, serfdom cannot be abolished without improved agriculture, and that, in general, people cannot be liberated as long as they are unable to obtain food and drink, housing and clothing in adequate quality and quantity. “Liberation” is an historical and not a mental act, and it is brought about by historical conditions, the development of industry, commerce, agriculture, the conditions of intercourse.

    And Engels from the “Principles of Communism:”

    Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke? No, no more than existing forces of production can at one stroke be multiplied to the extent necessary for the creation of a communal society. In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity.

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      3•5 months ago

      You do know they wrote those passages in the 1800s, right?

      So how long, exactly, was it supposed to take to eliminate the multi-billionaires that didn’t exist yet and didn’t even exist in China until relatively recently?

      • @TokenBoomerEnglish
        -1•5 months ago

        It takes as long as it takes. There is no timetable for social change.

        • Flying SquidMEnglish
          2•5 months ago

          Got it. As long as China eliminates the multi-billionaires and private companies within the next three billion years, it will not be a capitalist country.

          • @TokenBoomerEnglish
            -1•5 months ago

            Unironically, yes. It’s the INTENTION that matters. Are they striving for communism, or is it just lip service? Only by their actions can we tell.

            • Flying SquidMEnglish
              2•5 months ago

              Ah yes, good intentions. I seem to remember something about a road being associated with those.

              • @TokenBoomerEnglish
                0•5 months ago

                As opposed to the flooded dirt road western capitalism is leading us.

                • Flying SquidMEnglish
                  2•5 months ago

                  …and we’ve come to whataboutism.

                  And apparently the two options, according to what you are arguing, are be capitalists or fail at doing something else but have good intentions and then be capitalists anyway.

                  • @TokenBoomerEnglish
                    0•5 months ago

                    I’m sure the fascism that’s coming will sharpen these distinctions, rendering this entire debate irrelevant.

                    Anyway, my wife’s friend is in hospice with brain cancer so I need to visit her. I’ll ask her which political economy is best? /s