China's Food Chain. Nobody Trusts Nobody.

The Eileen Eats blog has an excellent, and very scary post up on the state of Chinese food. It is entitled, "Food Safety– Can’t let your guard down," and its money quote is as follows:

Hung Huang, chief executive of the China Interactive Media Group in China, said recently in an article in the New York Times that China as a nation of food lovers is going on a diet. “Not because we don’t love to eat anymore,” she said, “but because we just don’t know what is safe to eat.”

For an article on the state of China's food safety, check out this article, Food Fumble, co-blogger Steve Dickinson wrote for the Wall Street Journal.