The first impressions I had when I heard something made in
China, it’s all fake… Quality is very poor… A waste of money… Well, I’m talking
anything about electronics…
What if one day, it came to your doorstep a fake food? Would
you consider eating them? Can your curiosity take you the courage to taste it?
How in the world China come up with something like this? It
is so alarming, not to mention this is way too dangerous…
The lack of effective food safety laws in China has created
a monster of terrible proportions.
It is one thing to replicate designer merchandise and rip
off manufacturers, and quite another to dare to imitate Mother Nature and mess
with the nutritious ingredients that comprise the staples of human diets.
China’s population of 1.3 billion is hungry for both food
and wealth, and this combination often nurses corruption, especially when
there’s no government watchdog preventing the commission of such crimes.
Where can you find the obvious culprits? In the streets… Here
are some of the major fake foods circulating China.
Perpetrators remove the nut’s true meat, replacing it with a
lump of concrete and gluing the shell shut. To further foster the “nut
illusion,” much care is taken to wrap each cement lump in paper so as not to
arouse suspicion. Can you imagine that? Cement on food?
Honey laundering concerns the creation of a counterfeit
honey product that is falsely labeled and shipped through India, then on to the
United States. Maybe come a few weeks, it will be delivered to your countries
as well.
It is the result of blending sugar water, malt sweeteners,
corn or rice syrup, jaggery (a type of unrefined sugar), barley malt sweetener
or other additives with a bit of actual honey.
Making expensive beef out of cheaper chicken or pork and
charging the highest price possible is its own form of despicable alchemy.
Unfortunately, it is fairly easy to do. It takes about 90
minutes to create by marinating a blend of high-grade beef extract and a
glazing agent.
“Meat-masking additives” are dangerous. Continued use can
cause slow poisoning of human organs, leading to deformities and possibly even
some forms of cancer.
Needless to say, these jerks are promoting sickness. They
are slowly killing you…
It would seem that there should be a special penalty for
daring to imitate the mainstay of the Chinese culinary experience. Authorities
in Singapore have stated that some companies are making imitation rice from
plastic industrial resin and potatoes (both sweet and regular). Philippines
also reported the same fake rice. One resident try to lit the cooked rice and
it burns, literally.
This fake product looks real in its raw state, but once it’s
cooked it becomes hard and chewy. “Eating three bowls of this fake rice would
be like eating one plastic bag,” stated one official from the Chinese
Restaurant Association.
Man-made eggs are composed of chemicals, alginic acid,
potassium, calcium chloride, gelatin, paraffin, artificial coloring and water,
and are sold as if they were the real thing.
They are boiled in the urine of young boys and the eggshells
are made from chalk.
Adding insult to injury, instructions for making these bogus
eggs can be found on a variety of websites. Curiosity as it is, I know you’re
trying to make one.
It is said that the imitations do resemble eggs, but not
after cooking, at which point the yolks have been known to bounce.
Eating these disgusting imitations on a continued basis can
lead to memory loss and dementia.
Repackaging stale buns would appear to be a new low in
China’s food packaging standards.
Some grocery stores have been accused of sending buns that
have expired back to their makers, the Shanghai Shenglu Food Company, where
they are thrown into a vat with water, flour, an illegal yellow food coloring
and artificial sweeteners. The buns are then repackaged and resold as new,
fresh buns.
Some action has been taken against the company’s director,
perhaps because the scandal was just too public and shameful for the government
to bear.
The director lost his production license and the government
has since removed 32,000 buns from store shelves.
China’s food safety policy is for the most part non-existent
and in dire need of reform. Regulations are difficult to enforce due to the
vast size of the country. In 2009, the government did recognize food safety
issues as a national problem, which is always the first step to any recovery
process.
The violations, however, are blatant, and they continue
unabated.
Someone has to make actions regarding this! If all rumors
are true, China is killing people, if not by force, they are killing everyone slowly,
and they should be charged for that…
The next time you visit your favorite Grocery store, always
be vigilant, be cautious and be informative.
Cheerio!
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