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Report: China Manufacturing Plastic Rice, Selling It as Real Food

by Max Eddy | 4:30 pm, February 8th, 2011

In what is the most diabolical thing I have read today, a report from Very Vietnam alleges that some Chinese food producers are creating synthetic rice out of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and plastic. The “rice” is made by mixing the potato material together, shaping it into grains, and then adding an “industrial resin” as a binding agent. Very Vietnam says that these resins can be very harmful if eaten. Going on to indicate exactly how much plastic is involved, the website says:

A Chinese Restaurant Association official said that eating three bowls of this fake rice would be like eating one plastic bag.

The obvious motivation behind this scheme would be money, since the synthetic “rice” is cheaper to produce. This is just another, albeit somewhat more disquieting, in the long line of tainted or defective products apparently coming out of China. These would include the poisonous drywall, and tainted milk.

If true, this a cruel, calculated maneuver worthy of Orson Well’s character Harry Lime from The Third Man. It’s hard not to think of his famous speech atop the ferris wheel, gesturing at the people below:

Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?

(via Very Vietnam, image via Wikipedia)

  • lllisa

    This is not true, check the circular “sources” which refer back to each other and regurgitate the same unverifiable story.

  • Jackie

    Is the Chinese government so weak that companies can get away with something like that? Odd that plastic is than potatoes

  • Renamaniaco

    You guys should fact check sometimes. Fake as hell.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-White/1045774949 Jessica White

    Even if it were true, wouldnt surprise me the way we have to butt into everyones business, and act like we rule the world, and police other countries, we probably deserve it. 

  • Cold_draco

    No, its true, this isnt the only other new artile to talk about it, they also have some eggs over there that are 80% dishwater.

    you should check out the news thats making circles in other asian countries, china’s gov doesnt seem to really care about stuff like this.


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