Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.
The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.
It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.
I’m on the fence about whether it matters or not, that they might only do so to politically save face. ⚖️
At least they save face… Wouldn’t mind some more face saving over here.
Where is “over here” for you?
If all you save is face, THEN YOU HAVE SAVED NOTHING. What do you mean we don’t do this over here, this is all we fucking do. We don’t solve problems, we just market them.
I can’t recall any other countries executing their rich for things like this. Can you?
Especially in the west. In the west they just take a part of their profits as a trivial fine.
I can’t have a conversation with someone advocating murder and wondering why I’m not impressed.
Advocating the death penalty for people who’ve committed mass social murder is not murder.
White collar crime like this is the only case where the death penalty might be useful, since these people actually do a risk-benefit analysis.