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.

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      6 months ago

      Got it. As long as China eliminates the multi-billionaires and private companies within the next three billion years, it will not be a capitalist country.

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        6 months ago

        Unironically, yes. It’s the INTENTION that matters. Are they striving for communism, or is it just lip service? Only by their actions can we tell.

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              6 months ago

              …and we’ve come to whataboutism.

              And apparently the two options, according to what you are arguing, are be capitalists or fail at doing something else but have good intentions and then be capitalists anyway.

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                I’m sure the fascism that’s coming will sharpen these distinctions, rendering this entire debate irrelevant.

                Anyway, my wife’s friend is in hospice with brain cancer so I need to visit her. I’ll ask her which political economy is best? /s