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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.

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      I see, so humanity tried communism and failed and therefore the 45 million people who died in China’s Great Leap Forward’s deaths were justified. Because China meant well.

      • @TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        Sorry you’re not feeling great. None of this matters in the great scheme of things:

        At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

        • Flying SquidMEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          What on Earth does any of that have to do with your implication that the deaths of 45 million people was worth it due to good intentions?

            • Flying SquidMEnglish
              2•4 months ago

              In other words, you’re trolling. That would be in violation of the engage in good faith part of rule five in the sidebar.

              • @TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1•4 months ago

                When is showing concern for another person trolling? If you want to discuss geopolitics I can, but sometimes I think it’s nice to just talk about mundane stuff, like entertainment and anything else. Worrying relentlessly about things outside our control isn’t good for our mental health.

                • Flying SquidMEnglish
                  1•4 months ago

                  Your feigned concern is not in any way to be believed since it came out of nowhere after you admitted your argument was not logical.

                  You are trolling me and you have been flagged for trolling others. I think you need to take a break now.