Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Poisoned Chinese crap kills Chinese, too!
And they don't have the luxury of news organizations broadcasting warnings and recalls of bad products. In fact they barely have any laws at all.
Take, for example, wine. Chinese vineyards can fib about the vintage on labels. They also can mislead consumers about where the wine comes from.On the plus side, if you kill too many people or make too much money doing so they will kill you.
Some inexpensive “wines” may not even be wine at all. The state broadcaster, China Radio International, said investigators earlier this year found that “many wines consist of little more than water, pigment and alcohol, with trace amounts of grape juice.”
False wine labels don't fall into the category of bogus antibiotics, which killed seven people in China last year. No one has perished from sipping a mock merlot.
But the same toxic toothpastes and anti-freeze-tainted cough syrups that killed dozens of people in Panama and Haiti were on store shelves in China until last month. Other items recalled overseas — including seafood tainted with antibiotics, flammable baby clothes, unsafe extension cords and exploding batteries — generally remain in stores in China.
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The attitude I hear from my Chinese contacts is, "there's 1.5 billion people in China, who cares if there's a few less?".
Not exactly the sort of attitude conducive to conducting mass riots with pitchforks.
Not exactly the sort of attitude conducive to conducting mass riots with pitchforks.
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