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China’s Poor Treated to Fake Rice Made From Plastic
I raised an eyebrow when I heard rumors of China mixing plastic into Hershey’s chocolate after they fulfilled some of Hershey’s sectors in 2007. Now? Not as much doubt. The rice, an amalgam of potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic is truly sold and ingested in parts of China. By now you are probably disgusted with a lot of Chinese practices; slave labor, government abuse, weak product quality, and that they are our biggest importer just to name a few. If those don’t concern you, does it move you to picture a poor Chinese family sitting down to eat a dinner that’s equivalent to eating a plastic bag? If we don’t look deep and take a stand about not supporting a country with such contempt for its people, then we are no different; we may be responsible for lining corrupt coffers and coffins.
~Health Freedoms
China’s history with food safety is a rocky one, but even in the annals of robbery and abuse, this will go down in infamy.
Various reports in Singapore media have said that Chinese companies are mass producing fake rice made, in part, out of plastic, according to one online publication Very Vietnam.
The “rice” is made by mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic. The potatoes are first formed into the shape of rice grains. Industrial synthetic resins are then added to the mix. The rice reportedly stays hard even after being cooked.
The Korean-language Weekly Hong Kong reported that the fake rice is being sold in the Chinese town of Taiyuan, in Shaanxi province.
“A Chinese Restaurant Association official said that eating three bowls of this fake rice would be like eating one plastic bag. Due to the seriousness of the matter, he added that there would be an investigation of factories alleged to be producing the rice,” Very Vietnam noted.
Unfortunately, it’s not the first time fake rice has been sold in China, according to China’s Global Times.
Previously, a company in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province had added flavoring to ordinary rice to synthesize “Wuchang rice,” which is regarded to be the best rice in the country.
About 300,000 people were injured and at least six infants died in 2008 when Chinese milk and infant formula was found to be adulterated with melamine, which was thought to help the milk pass nutrition tests.
Later that year, melamine was also discovered in Chinese eggs.
By David Edwards
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/08/report-china-fake-rice-plastic/
http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail/4442166-1.html
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I find it hard to believe that the people eating this “fake rice” do not know that it is fake. It stays hard? What were the nutritional result of this “fake rice?” Did people get sick, lose weight, etc.? How much did it cost to make this “fake rice?” Less than real rice? Are the potatoes and sweet potatoes that cheap?
Make rice??? I thought it was grown as rice, shape, color, ect…
It is difficult to stand against a country that owns you. Do you really think China cares what America thinks? No, they just expect us to buy their goods and look the other way. Making a statement would be to not buy anything made in China.
I’m sure they suspect something and don’t necessarily like it. The nutritional result of plastic rice is a health hazard! Eating the equivalent of plastic bag is a major carcinogen and I’m not even sure how the body can process it. I’m not sure how it can cost less, but apparently so.
bought two items at walmart yesterday that were seized at the checkout; so didn’t actually buy them.
we have the right to know where the water in our products is from: if you buy a can of soup where was it prepared, where do the tomatoes or anything included come from? where is the water used in preparation coming from?
much is made about the phosophorous from run off in our rivers and lakes; but the increasing endless immigration is the real problem. well that and welfare. welfare people breed children that they don’t pay for and therefore don’t teach concern for their country or ecology. immigration has ruined our aquifers and roads and schools and balkanized our country. don’t know if we will make it or not. president johnson once said no more thatn 200 million could we support ecologically, we are now double that if illegals are counted.
this is a death sentence for our children. if we don’t take out country back and stop all immigration they will live like india; no drinkable water, and on top of each other.
For decades McDonalds fast-food restaurants have added plastic – polymerized petroleum hydrocarbons – to its shakes to make them thicker here in the USA.
That plastic is also being added to make synthetic rice in China is not that much of a surprise.
Like most everything else, the Chinese copied it from us!
I didn’t think that “REAL” rice was all that expensive in the first place and that was the reason it is so widely used in other countries. It doesn’t seem like it could be all that much cheaper if at all to have to make this fake rice out of potatoes, sweet pot. and plastic. Even if it is a little cheaper surely between the closeness of the price and the danger it would pose to the people eating it that it’s not worth the risk. How horrible !!!
Indiviual chinese are not inclued but the government oes not care about what we do with their immigrants. They want to be part of the American ream, but they are rude, pushy and offensive. Maybe they don’t know, or perhaps don’t care. We have gotntonstop the Chinese influence. Stop buying the imports from the ollar stores, go to the salvation armies, good will and thrift stores to buy what you need. Stop feeding their economy! Take care of our’s. It’s not the people, it’s their government hilosophy.
Sorry for posting this comment so long after the story, but the plastic rice is not going away. I am living in China right now, and just found our latest rice purchase contains fake rice.
My reply to the person who asked who people can eat it without noticing is twofold.
1/ Most Chinese use a rice cooker, which heats the fake rice enough to soften it; it is only when you cook in a normal saucepan that it stays hard. That is how I noticed it, it stayed white despite the light soup mix I had added to make my congee, while all the real rice turned a pale coffee colour..
2/ It is used to bulk out real rice, so when you buy 1KG you get about 900g of rice and 100g of fake.
If anyone comes across a way to test for the fake stuff before buying, I (and a couple of billion SE Asians) would be grateful.