cavanami Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 ...and the beat goes on... Japanese rice: the new, safe luxury food in China http://news.yahoo.com/japanese-rice-safe-luxury-food-china-211610709--finance.html First it was European infant formula, then New Zealand milk. Now Chinese consumers are adding Japanese rice to the list of everyday foods they will bring in from abroad at luxury-good prices because they fear the local alternatives aren't safe. The volume of rice imported from China remains small - 160 tonnes last year, according to Japan's National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations. But that is more than triple the total in 2013, a trend that illustrates Chinese consumers' dwindling confidence in the safety of the country's own agricultural produce. "Chinese rice farmers use pesticides," said a seller identified as Ying Ying, who started offering Japanese rice on the Taobao online marketplace last August. "Japanese rice isn't polluted by heavy metals." Pollution from industrialization has exacted a heavy toll on China's soil and water. In May 2013, officials in Guangdong province in southern China said 44 percent of rice samples contained excessive levels of the metal cadmium. A study by the Ministry of Environmental Protection last April estimated that 16.1 percent of China's soil was contaminated. In parts of the country, soil pollution is so bad that some rice farmers refuse to eat what they grow. After the cadmium revelations, some Chinese consumers began to see rice from Thailand as an affordable and safe substitute... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Unfortunately I can't get a link to the vid but I saw one recently where the fake hens eggs are being sold in China again. Looking at one in isolation, you might be persuaded to buy them. They make people sick. In comparison to a real one it is obvious the fakes are fakes. All this brought to you by China, because some f**k has worked out how to make a fake toxic egg, at tenths of a cent cheaper than producing a real one and now wants to make his millions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 The Chinese mentality in business goes something like this...if you can cheat your customer you have made a good business deal! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plainsdrifter Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 So true. A nation of cheats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Maybe Japanese rice is a status symbol. It shows ones wealth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 That is certainly part of it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 So the pesticide infected rice gets exported? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 So the pesticide infected rice gets exported? It gets made into rice wine. Gives it that extra kick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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