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Chinese street vendors use "gutter oil" - don't read while eating


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2020 Feb 16, 8:23am   1,072 views  16 comments

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https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-street-vendors-use-gutter-oil-2013-10

The next time you consider eating Chinese street food you might think twice.

The use of gutter oil it turns out is pretty common. This refers to a process of pulling waste oil from sewers, grease traps, waste from slaughterhouses, reprocessing it and then selling it as cooking oil.

These screenshots from a Radio Free Asia (RFA) video via Max Fisher at The Washington Post show a woman in Shenzhen pulling "slop" from a gutter. ...

Gutter oil is reported to account for one-tenth of cooking oil in China, according to experts cited by RFA. Besides being downright disgusting, the oil is also said to contain carcinogens and other toxins.

China has been fighting the practice for years. Earlier this month a man from China's Jiangsu province was sentenced to life in prison for making and selling gutter oil, Xinhua reported.

China has long battled food safety concerns. But in a country where cooking oil is at a premium, it will likely be a while before officials can effectively crack down on the practice.


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1   Tenpoundbass   2020 Feb 16, 8:29am  

If we would stop depleting our soil fertility to send the Bulk of the Soy Beans we grown to China.
Then perhaps, we can get Vegetable Oil for a few dollars a gallon again. It's more than Peanut Oil was just a few years ago.
Why do we need to trade with China again? So Corporate farmers can fuck America's Dinner Table?

That's not a valid reason.

I'm glad China is pulling this Virus Hoax. The medical supplies shortage is showing America the dangers of having everything made in China while we grow food, and then create price pressures on our own dinner tab, by sending the bulk of what we grow to China.

China needs to get back to fostering their rural class and get back to farming. Food prices would fall around the world, but the Investor class would be livid.
And most Democrat voters would get the sads, they hate when Billionaires lose money. They feel like they it was their own personal money that got squandered.
2   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Feb 16, 11:13am  

Everybody who lives in China: "No buy Chinese things! All false! All fake!"
Every Company that imports from China: "All your toxic concerns about these imports are unscientific and wrong!"
3   Shaman   2020 Feb 16, 11:34am  

China is going to need our agricultural imports more than ever in the coming months, as the harvest is going to be awful due to corona virus and government lockdown.
4   clambo   2020 Feb 16, 11:40am  

I believe it.
There was a case of the steamed pork buns being comprised of wet mashed cardboard to save money on the dough flour whatever it is.
The government workers get the finest foods; the government office buildings have a restaurant within that serves the workers and others by invitation. Guys off the street can’t get in.
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Feb 16, 11:58am  

Shaman says
China is going to need our agricultural imports more than ever in the coming months, as the harvest is going to be awful due to corona virus and government lockdown.


I'm so old, I remember 2-3 years ago when it was impossible sheer folly to even attempt to take on the implacable rising Chinese Hegemon.

It's almost as if the entire facade of reality created by the Cathedral was false.
6   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Feb 16, 12:25pm  

THAT'S! NOT! SAUSAGE!!!
7   HeadSet   2020 Feb 16, 12:45pm  

So, what are they doing with the fat from the expanded operation crematoriums?
8   mell   2020 Feb 16, 1:26pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
Thank god there is one country that isn't overwhelmed by libby 'health' and 'sanitary' regulations. FREEDOM! reigns in the PRC!


No you're mistaken here that's exactly where extreme progressivism and socialism leads. Today's Liberals are leftoid communists who'd love Chinese autocracy and a subservient population cooking with oil from the gutter. The original liberals would fall somewhere between today's conservatives and libertarians.
9   Hircus   2020 Feb 16, 1:49pm  

In the Philippines the poor eat "Pagpag", which is basically recycled dumpster food. Restaurateurs go dumpster diving to find food scraps, then bring it back to their "restaurant" where they recook it and make it look palatable. Many are forthcoming about what they're selling, but I'm sure some places aren't.

"wipe the sauce and dirt off"
"cut that 1/3 of that piece off"

lol

We have it good in this country.
Even our poor have it very, very good in this country.
10   rdm   2020 Feb 17, 9:47am  

And we import quite a lot of food from China, any food product of China should be avoided or any Asian nation for that matter, Japan excepted. Read the labels

One thing I will give the Chinese, the second generation, children born in America of immigrants really do melt into American culture.
11   Booger   2020 Feb 17, 10:03am  

China is asshoe!
12   B.A.C.A.H.   2020 Feb 17, 10:04am  

I think I recall an article a while back, food source labeling not required in Japan.

If my memory served me correctly, it means food from Japan could be food from China (or anywhere else).
13   Automan Empire   2020 Feb 17, 10:10am  

You think that's bad, there are cases of food vendors draining the oil out of TRANSFORMERS to fry their wares in! It's popular because it is very resistant to oxidation at high temperature, so it can be used for a long time compared to other oils. Like melamine plastic added to trick protein testing, this is such a high level of "Fuck the health and very life of the end user I just want money!" that it's beyond my ability to understand in any way.
14   RC2006   2020 Feb 17, 11:32am  

China is full of foul and fake shit, this is the place that even sells fake eggs.
15   Shaman   2020 Feb 17, 11:38am  

Automan Empire says
You think that's bad, there are cases of food vendors draining the oil out of TRANSFORMERS to fry their wares in! It's popular because it is very resistant to oxidation at high temperature, so it can be used for a long time compared to other oils. Like melamine plastic added to trick protein testing, this is such a high level of "Fuck the health and very life of the end user I just want money!" that it's beyond my ability to understand in any way.


Wow. Even low levels of PCBs (oil in transformers) are proven to cause cancer. And that’s residual stuff from improper disposal or leaks that happen. I can’t imagine how damaging it would be to eat food that’s actually fried in PCBs! If that fried bar on a stick doesn’t give you coronavirus, you’ll get cancer and die!

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