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Q: Is China facing a food shortage?
This could explain why they are selling inferior quality foods to its population and why food scandals are so rampant here. And it must be pretty challenging feeding such a populated country.
it has to do with laziness , cheating and deceitful practices that are acceptable here, no concern for human life, and greed. cant forget ignorance.
crimochina:
sorry food shortage no, look at the wasted food in restaurants
Where do you see China food shortage then?...scandals are all years in everywhere and any countries...Do you think your work is chanllege to you or not? Working is chanllege to anyone, life is also a challening, DONT YOU AGREE?.unless you dont have a job....
To place things into proper prospective, I do not see a relation from food of lower quality and food shortages.
I also do not see what lazziness has to do with it. And some other things mentioned. I see greed, the endless feeling of making an extra yuan and total disregard for what could happen to others.
But to be totally honest, I also see this happens every where else, or are we forgetting recalls?.
To answer your question, No, China is not suffering from food shortages. Even agricultural type food, 46 % of cultivable land in China is not currenntly in use.
Now, food foreigners like may not be redily available everywhere, but that does not mean there are food shortages also.
Desertification has already caused food shortages in the western provinces, many farmers are leaving their fields and going to the city to make more money, and large swathes of land are so polluted that food can't be produced. A food shortage could totally happen but the government would just import more food. Probably from Vietnam or the US.
As far as food scandals, it is more about placing profit above all else. Look at the milk powder scandal.
Milk is tested for protien content, the higher the content, the higher the value. So it is routine for farmers to water down the milk and add melanine, which is an inert material that gives off a false protien reading when the milk is tested in the traditional way.
Milk will pass through several middlemen before it actually reaches the factory where it is turned into baby formula.
Each middleman (and eventually the factory) will follow the same process of watering down the milk and adding melanine. By the time it makes it into baby formula, it has been watered down and had melanine added about 5-6 times.
While melanine is an inert material, not poisonous in and of itself, it does tend to build up in the under developed kidneys of infants. Hence, why the Sanlu baby formula was responsible for the injury and death of many babies.
Now, to show how corrupt and immoral people can be, the unused & recalled baby formula was supposed to be destroyed by law.
It turned up back on the streets in different cans several months later.
It was found and recalled again. It was supposed to be destroyed again.
However, several months later it was once again found in stores across China.
Profit is king. Lives are like funions. Munch all you want, they will make more.
