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.
http://www.chinalawblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-t.cgi/3245
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And what's sad about all of this is, as the government is promising to help the people, they're immune to most of the problems.
Check out this article, titled "Food Supplied for Chinese Leaders Follows Strict Safety Rules":
http://www.washingtonchinareview.org/newsdetailp.php?id=5958
Posted by: Jocelyn | November 16, 2009 10:23 PM
These seem to be the same two links (Eileen Eats and Steve Dickinson) that you previously posted on August 17.
http://www.chinalawblog.com/2009/08/chinas_food_chain_nobody_trust_1.html
Is there something new I'm missing?
Posted by: JT | November 16, 2009 11:01 PM
Last I heard Hung Huang quit the media business.
Posted by: James Wu | November 17, 2009 10:56 AM