[eXpat]

Not Soylent Green yet, but getting there...
China makes fake rice from plastic: report
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')hina allegedly makes fake rice, reported The Korea Times, a reputable English-language newspaper in Korea on January 20, 2011.
The original source is a report obtained by "Singapore media," said The Korea Times.
Allegedly, some Chinese companies produce fake rice by mixing in plastic. This fake rice is then "massively sold" on the Chinese market.
Fake rice sold in Taiyuan, Shaanxi is made from a mixture of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and plastic, according to the report.
The Korea Times said while officials warn that eating fake rice is obviously dangerous to human health, merchants still sell it in "mass quantity" because it's highly profitable.
China has a history of making fake food items.
The Global Times reported in July 2010 that a company in Xi'an, Shaanxi makes a fake version of the expensive "Wuchang rice" by adding flavoring to ordinary rice.
The most infamous example of China's food abuses is the 2008 milk scandal, in which companies adulterated infant formula with melamine and caused the death of at least 6 infants.

[americandream]

Corporate fascists know no bounds in the pursuit of profit. We saw this with the Germans and now the Chinese. I have absolutely NO time for the renegades in Beijing who have turned the sound idea of a scientific social order into an unseemly spectacle of greed and am hardly surprised.

[jupiters_release]

Skip the whole agricultural part and just make oil into food, save more energy. Sounds like some twisted mitigation business, which it probably is.

[scas]

Oh come on now, this is the ultimate survival food. Plastic lasts what...10 000 years? Stock up while it's cheap.

[eXpat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('scas', 'O')h come on now, this is the ultimate survival food. Plastic lasts what...10 000 years? Stock up while it's cheap.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('scas', 'O')h come on now, this is the ultimate survival food. Plastic lasts what...10 000 years? Stock up while it's cheap.

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'm')erchants still sell it in "mass quantity" because it's highly profitable

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'C')orporate fascists know no bounds in the pursuit of profit. We saw this with the Germans and now the Chinese. I have absolutely NO time for the renegades in Beijing who have turned the sound idea of a scientific social order into an unseemly spectacle of greed and am hardly surprised.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '2') Communes being a function of the social economy in communism, the features of corporatisation (viz profit and exponential growth) are missing. (A fact in both the Maoist and Stalinist economies before China sold out and the Soviets were beaten senseseless in Afghanistan). Consequently, there isn't the frenzied search for profit by any means and the risks of plasticised food is greatly minimised.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '2') Communes being a function of the social economy in communism, the features of corporatisation (viz profit and exponential growth) are missing. (A fact in both the Maoist and Stalinist economies before China sold out and the Soviets were beaten senseseless in Afghanistan). Consequently, there isn't the frenzied search for profit by any means and the risks of plasticised food is greatly minimised.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'H')oly shit.You two are about to fight WWII all over again. May the best loon win!

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', ' ') Bourgeoise scum had been and continued breathing down the neck of the valiant revolutionaries from day one. And yet, the Soviets not only whupped your pal, Hitler's corporatist ass, they were the first society in space.

[Asterisk]

I for one don't want no socialist FDA telling me what I can and can't eat. If China sold plastic rice here, the free market would ensure that no one would die from it! I say NO REGULATIONS!!! Free market BABY!!!

This story just reminds me how much I hate republicans and their free market CRAP. Then again, pretty much everything reminds me how much I hate republicans, LOL.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', ' ') Bourgeoise scum had been and continued breathing down the neck of the valiant revolutionaries from day one. And yet, the Soviets not only whupped your pal, Hitler's corporatist ass, they were the first society in space.

[Pretorian]

Who told you that there were no prostitutes, porn, muslims, fascists, druggies, and other assorted low-lifers that do not have a place in a planetary society in Soviet Union? Give us the name of that idiot.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'W')ho told you that there were no prostitutes, porn, muslims, fascists, druggies, and other assorted low-lifers that do not have a place in a planetary society in Soviet Union? Give us the name of that idiot.

[Rod_Cloutier]

I first heard of this story today on the Max Keiser report. The Chinese are feeding the poor fake plastic rice:

http://veryvietnam.com/2011-01-22/china ... am-reacts/

http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV

Its time to worry when fake food is being sold to the poor. The moment you read about this you realize that the world is being run completely by sociopaths.