Check The Date On Those Chicken Feet
Police in Nanning have confiscated twenty tons of smuggled chicken feet including some with labels from 1967, according to Shanghai Daily. Some are doubtful that the feet, found in the Guangxi Zhuang...
View ArticleChina to Crackdown on Illegal Medicine Sales
China announced a crackdown on illegal medicine sales on Wednesday and said it would pursue stricter regulations for the pharmaceuticals industry, according to Reuters: The State Food and Drug...
View ArticleChina’s Genetically Modified Food Fight
Media coverage of two recent policy actions have helped to revive public fears about GMOs in a densely-populated country with serious concerns about food security: in June, the Chinese government...
View ArticleUkraine [Update: Not] to Become China’s Largest Overseas Farmer
South China Morning Post’s Mandy Zuo reports China’s biggest overseas agricultural investment yet. [Update: the FT reports that no such deal has yet been signed.] Estimated at at least $2.6 billion,...
View ArticleRotten Fruit Juice & the Future of Food Safety in China
Reuters’ Adam Jourdan reports China’s latest food safety scandal: the alleged use of rotten fruit to make juice. Farmers in several Chinese provinces sold rotten fruit to distributors, which was then...
View ArticleShould China Import More Grain?
After president Xi Jinping told farmers in Hubei that the Chinese “must rely on ourselves for grain security,” The Economist questions the prevailing policy that the world’s second largest economy must...
View ArticleNo Pecan Pie? Thank China, Rain and Pigs
Kim Severson at the New York Times reports that unusually high pecan consumption in China, combined with a poor growing season, are causing the current pecan shortage in the United States: A rare...
View ArticleMajority of Chinese Oppose American GM Crops
The Economist reports that the debate over genetically modified crops has become especially heated in China, where some fear increased American control over China’s food supply: Public unease about...
View ArticleChinese Take-Out Returns to its ‘Spiritual’ Home
The Globe and Mail reports on Fortune Cookie, an expat owned American-style Chinese restaurant that might be the mainland’s first to serve orange chicken in a little cardboard box: The idea came to...
View ArticleFood Imports Rise As Environment Declines
Since its early days, the PRC has aimed to be self-sufficient in its food supply. With continued urbanization efforts, an increasingly polluted environment, and perpetual food safety concerns, China is...
View ArticleChina Cancels Thai Rice Deal Amid Graft Probe
After Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission launched investigations into embattled Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra‘s rice subsidy program last month, the Bangkok Post reports that a...
View ArticleIs China’s Pork Consumption Hurting The West?
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every year, Beth Hoffman at Forbes reports that with a population of 1.35 billion, “China now consumes double...
View ArticleChina Denies Posing Threat to Global Food Security
China Real Time’s Chuin-Wei Yap reports the Chinese agriculture ministry’s rebuttal of a February essay, ‘Can the World Feed China?’ by environmentalist Lester Brown. Brown repeated earlier warnings...
View ArticleInvestigating China’s Purchase of American Pork
The Center for Investigative Reporting has produced a two-part series looking into Shuanghui International’s 2013 buyout of Smithfield Farms, the U.S.’s largest pork producer, and China’s search for...
View ArticleNorth Carolinians Sue Over Pig Manure Lagoons
In 2013, when Shuanghui International bought Smithfield Farms, America’s largest pork producer, some in the U.S. raised environmental and food safety concerns about the takeover. Last year, the Center...
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