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Food safety scandal rocks China as report claims cooking oil carried in same trucks as fuel (www.cnn.com)

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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.

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.

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[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

Posted it myself, just now, just for you.

To be clear, what you're suggesting is that stories that the Chinese government is actively talking about would be censored on lemmy.ml. Let's see if that's true! Can't wait to find out!

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip -2 points 4 months ago

Nice. I am not really suggesting that they are being actively silenced, since I do see them there from time to time. What I do notice is that stories that are critical of China always get zero or barely any engagement.

Not really a good indicator of lemmy.ml's willingness to discuss China's flaws. This is in comparison to the wall of text that love to comment whenever it comes to defending China or blaming the western countries.

We'll see how many lemmy.ml users comment on your post this time.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The claim I'm disputing is that people would deny that this is happening, not that they're insufficiently critical according to your standards. I'm not interested in evaluating that purely subjective claim (a discussion in which the goalposts could easily be shifted all over the place), what I'm interested in is disproving the objectively false claim that lemmy tankies deny this specific story happening.

The fact of the matter is that the person I responded to lied. That's all I'm saying. And for pointing out that objectively true fact, rather than anyone who disagreed supplying evidence, they just downvoted me, because apparently they think popularity is a substitute for truth.

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