July 12, 2007

China’s Cardboard Stuffed Dumplings Yum Yum

By Tim | July 12, 2007 | Tags: Business, East Asia |

Cardboard dumplings? Oh, it’s only the latest outrage from China:

Forbes—Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said. …

It’s disheartening to see what the love of money can make people do. China may be the worst example, but it isn’t the only country or culture where the love of money has corrupted its people. Just look around you and you’ll see.

This story has now been exposed as a fraud: ( Read Story )

 

2 Comments

  • Tim says:

    I’ve wondered if companies like Walmart have pushed China’s development too far, too fast; thus the problems that we see.

    What do you think?

  • YemeniChick says:

    American “entrepreneurs” weren’t much better during the turn of the Century. From 1890 to 1930, there were a whole lot of dangerous and illegal wares being sold to the unsuspecting public. Remember those “medicine men” in horse drawn carts going from town to town trying to sell “cure all” medications? How about those canned soup companies that had rats and human appendages in their products?

    China is similarly going through the same growing pains that every industrialized country goes through when capitalism starts off unregulated.

    Obviously, we can’t condone this sort of behavior, but it is not surprising and a part of the economic evolution of all developing countries.

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