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.
Foxconn is not the municipal water supplier, the one you’d be dealing with if you don’t live in those barracks. Those high water bills are if you live in the “free” barracks, i.e. they’re fooling people into thinking the barracks are free (yay! I can keep all of my wages!) and then they’re getting billed for the shower by the litre or something. It’s scummy but TBH also quintessentially Chinese. Their roommates are probably telling them they’re stupid for believing Foxconn.
And if minimum wage doesn’t suffice to have your own regular apartment, with non-extortionary water prices – well, complain with the CCP. Though, I have to add as a smug European, working full-time and not being able to make rent is also very much a thing in the US.
I knew the “whatabouts” would start eventually.
Well, I wouldn’t want to live in China or the US. Heck even visit. They’re both bad in their own ways, and also bad in very similar ways, in particular completely rampant capitalism.