Chinese Sewage Celery
- Categories: International, News
- Date: May 4, 2010 04:00 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Crime, Food, Guro, Jiangsu, Made in China
The latest food scandal to outrage Chinese net users involves nutritious celery being soaked in sewage to increase its weight for market.
The pictures in question, taken in the city of Nantong in Jiangsu province, show a farmer preparing a celery crop for market by soaking them in a pond for over 3 hours to increase their weight and subsequent sale price (itself illegal).
Naturally the pond is full of raw sewage and filled with floating garbage.
The individual clandestinely recording the scene reported a foul stench rising from the rubbish laden pond, and that farmers routinely soaked their crops there before taking them to the wholesale market for distribution.
Food for thought – particularly considering the scale of Chinese food exports to developed countries.
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People in this site all have bias on China because of you fucking bbs moderator...
You poor guys never see positive things about China but only negative ones...
Foolish net citizen, even more foolish moderator...
Welcome to SankakuComplex. You're not going to find any unbiased opinion here, only dribble.
Why in their stupid minds couldnt they just use normal clean water to do this? Oh wait its china there is no clean water.
Yes, because one man doing it means many people use the same practice.
If I show you an article wherein an Australian GP is guilty of malpractice, does that mean that it is rational and fair to make a generalization about Australian family practitioners?
Don't answer that.
maybe some we get some promble,but we were "show" its by you guys hand,and you?never dare to that we konw?
it like anti-virus software relation to pc virus,todays I scan a virus,but never konw what if exist more than one virus,so you are happy ,happy yours pc is so clean,dose virus appear first or anti-virus?thinking.
so only I want to say is, keep you happy emotion,or maybe you can see the film<>
and why this website always show such news,that what I wonder.
Good thing my preferences for celery and quite unfair.
They probably water all of their crops with sewage water anyways, so I don't see how this changes anything.
China = Shit
My question?
How did the photographer get away with taking photos of them?
Still, that's rather disgusting; luckily that celery bunch isn't sold to international markets.
Usually you'd have to throw manure on the land and fertilize it so the crops can grow, not throw the crops in manure(and all the other things you can find in sewage water)
when i see this, i am happy to live in the eu, where we have the strictest food controls on earth...
And yet you still buy food from china. Imported.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
PROTIP:
FOOD INDUSTRY DOES THIS EVERYWHERE, EXCEPT NOT IN SUCH WAY.
At least it seems the government is hunting them down
How i wish the the Japanese had made a big "Rape of Chinkland" instead this little "Rape of Nanjing".
Everybody i know hates or at least don't like stupid Chinks.
Do you hear, Chinks?! We Taiwanese don't belong to you! For 99% of Taiwanese it is an insult to be called "Chinese"! And 99% of us want be a free nation or be again a part/prefecture of wonderful Japan. But never, NEVER be part of fucking Chinkland. Death would be more welcome than beaing a part of you!
So screw you.
damn freaking fucked up Chinese. makes me hate my own country more and more.
remind me to never buy imported food from china.
CHINA FUCK YEAH!
Now I see why some ppl says that Chinese pickled veggies aren't really that healthy..
One more time this blog only know to speak about china to show the worst of this country and think that if this happen in a small town is becouse all chinese do the same and that is the chinese style... my god... if this happen in a small town not means that this is the chinese style!!! Here have a lot of people who hate china... Never i saw here some bad new from another country... only China... Japan didn't have bad news?? Or another countries in the world?? Only China??
PD: Sorry for my english...
Well somehow China seems to have the most disgusting and outrageous bad news...
So the mass ritual religious slaying of children in Africa, or the child pornography and sex trades in eastern Europe, or the punishment of rape victims in Saudi Arabia, or the... oh, fuck it. Clearly some dodgy pak choi is "most disgusting and outrageous".
Sorry, that's bullshit. Pan the camera to India and all of a sudden the cabbage looks welcoming compared to the lowest caste living conditions.
But hey, it's your prejudice...
Chinese people are protohumans.
Nah if they can eat this stuff and survive, it means they've already evolved beyond your brains.
Seriously, you can't buy anything there. The food's filled with sewage and their products fail exponentially and are filled with toxic chemicals. Anything you buy would kill you.
whats with the blatant racism against chinese?
you never pass up an opportunity to take a stab at them. america and japan have problems too.
and japan is a major importer of china's vegetables... yum!
this makes me feel bad about being Chinese sometimes... these greedy bastards truly give Chinese people a bad name.... im glad i dont live in china anymore... -__-
Wanna have sex?
This is what you get when practice Capitalism with no harsh regulations.
dirty bastards
It's not like it's going to stop China from surpassing Japan economically in literally 1-3 years. I highly doubt that these practices are officially endorsed by the Chinese government. It's just that China is still industrializing, and like industrializing nations, it tends to have quite a few negative externalities.
Look up Europe and the US back in the 1800's, when they were still industrializing. China seems like heaven compared to then.
Back to why China has all this shitty lead paint, sewage veggies, and semi-edible milk: China is still rapant with corruption in the government, and has yet to weed it out. It will take some time, but China will eventually crack down on all the corruption; after all,increasing the quality of their products will ultimately benefit them.
To be honest, China looks a lot like Japan did in the 1970's, except with their ENORMOUS population, they have much more potential.
doubts about cracking down on corruption. apparently you never read through any Chinese philosophy like confucius. because the Chinese philosophy is mostly about keeping thw whole nation under one harmony rule, even if the government is corrupted. Unless they change their philosophy, I see no hope for China to ever be a democracy country. They will probably become some Chinese-style democracy that only the rich or powerful can get freedom to do stuffs.
Confucious's philosophy is keeping the whole nation under one harmony rule, even if the government is corrupted? Confucious himself have left his posts whenever the country employed him had a corrupted leader. Please do not read anymore CCP propaganda because almost every single Chinese historical character (that is worth citing) would be against Mao and CCP. In fact, if they were alive today, almost everyone in mainland China would probably got disowned.
So, what else is new about China's food products? ;)
BTW, Arte, will you be reporting on any of the usual mainland Chinese antics during the chaotic World Expo opening in Shanghai? Like treating the drinking fountains there as garbage bins?
http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/special-days/shanghai-world-expo-2010/hilarious-shanghai-expo-trial-run-email-meme-photos/
CHINA QUALITY strikes again!!
lol.. amazing!
If you have half a brain don't buy food from China look for the country of origin label.
good, soak more, celery tastes like sewage anyway
good, soak more, sewage tastes like celery anyway
Haven't bothered to read all comments, but no one thinks to call bullsh*t? They put a conspicuous black bag in a pond and now it's a sewage pond? The water's clear. Let's place a garbage can there to make it more convincing.
And if they were interested in getting more money they wouldn't weigh it down before they shipped it to your country. Just make sure you don't have sewage ponds in your backyard.
Keep trollin.
These are truly atrocious... though it's curious how they never make the news. The best English reference I've found so far to ditch oil has been about using it as fuel, not cooking oil. Sankaku Complex can't be the only English site that gets info from Chinese sites...
its even worse in japan
No.
Yes. Mercury. Fixed
*sigh* Fucking China...
No fucking way. Duckroll.
Too many organic chains are so unhealthy! At least use a clean water-filled barrel instead.
Geez!
Food is COOKED in sewage, it's SOAKED in sewage...
God. It's a wonder they're not all horribly sick all the time ever.
SARS
That's not surprising coming from China. Thank God we don't need to import food here...
Take note, people in AmeriKKKa and I believe even EurAsia... Things like this ain't just for da "China" market. They end up right in your plate.
Very often, thanks to the "Globalist" parasites, these things are flown into the "Western" nations and sold for less than half what "Judd the Farmer" could make let a lone sell them for. Now, any economics from that are "Kosher as Ham on Rye". It's a false economy fueled by tax bailouts with a social agenda (1) rather than a strictly financial one.
---Note
1 - Can you say "Hydraulic Dictatorship" boys and girls? hehe I knew you could. Gain a monopoly in a critical source, you can then issue orders despite culture or government based on the threat of withholding said resource. That's why lettuce grown in a Mexican Latrine (Mexico and illegal immigrant hiring AmeriKKKan farms) is less than half what any real farmer could grow it for or sell it for. They want any competition, even using "Zoning" laws to force out a garden, out then to use the threat of cutting off the food supply for endless bailouts.
The globalist elites are parasites that need to be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
Though I never had an issue with having a garden if I ever was given trouble I'd sue.
most grocery stores in america don't import from china, B.O.gor. they get their stuff from Chile, brazil, or locally. although some do still get catfish and tilapia from china.
Yah I won't buy fish from China and I told the store manager I won't due to safety concerns.
I also avoid certain crops from Brazil so I don't fund the destruction of the rain forest.
Hell, you wont even know what "things" they might fed those fishes with.
I know some rural people in asia build toilet above fresh-water fish pond so they could fed them with human feces.
That's recycling. Your bread that you eat in your sandwich is made from grain that has probably had fertilzer on it aka cowshit.
You can take your political activism and stick it up your.... Just take it back to whatever socialist buddies you've been hanging around. We are here to fap and troll, not listen to your political agenda.
The "Forces of Control" are so into causing human misery and controlling people they won't even leave you your "Fap and Troll". They'll take everything so you beg to work in a Chinese style factory to make cheap jeans for China, not just to make extra money but to get pleasure causing human misery.
China is a capitalist state, dumbass.
Wah Wah I haet teh capitalisms! Wah! Yeah, China (socialists) are doing sooooo much better.
Well, shit like that happens everywhere. We had 30 year old meat served here in Germany, for example.
30 year old meat? as long as it was prepared properly it should be fine. age is not a factor with meat and cheese. eating beef right after it's killed would be like eating a leather boot. the enzymes in the meat begin to destroy the bonds in the meat and that tenderizes the meat. the meat you buy at the store has been dead for over 2-3 months. before you even get it. dry aged beef takes longer.
Well, you would have loved this meat. According to the police the meat was so tender that it had a greenish sheen and penetrating sour smell. Yet, it ended up in restaurants. Cooks would cut off the bits that looked too green and worked their magic to mask the taste, and it worked for a while, until they got nicked. And this is actually the second time this happened in recent years.
It has always disturbed me that the Roman spectacles became so progressively cruel over time. It started out as chariot races and stuff like that. Okay, people got injured in them too, but on the other hand F1 races are dangerous too and the only reason they claim fewer victims is that we've simply become better at taking preventive measures and rescuing the drivers. The hunts, well yeah. The gladiator games I can even kind of get. Initially often a blood offering to the gods, in an inexplicable world much more harsh and cruel than it is now, okay. Initially these weren't expected to be deadly from the outset and certainly the Romans were horrified by the actual human sacrifice of the Carthages and the Celts.
But over time it got worse and worse, and the onset of Christianity didn't help. (The Roman decline did though.) Sometimes there was a religious motivation (like the persecutions, as well as your example) but mostly it was bloodlust spiralling out of control. Organisers had to go over the top to please the crowds and to the crowds the new heights would always seem normal.
Compared to us, the Romans were biologically quite similar. Any one of us could have been sitting there cheering.
The Greeks went after little boys.
The Romans went after little girls.
One of the games in the circus maximus was letting loose a horde of trained apes who then raped little girls to death.
With a few exceptions, like the Emperor Vespasian, most of the boyfucking was done by Greeks. 'Eros' and all that.
And we probably both have living relatives that drank out of lead for health reasons. That's how Port wine was decanted, until recently.
The Romans actually preferred their meat on the rancid side as it made it sweeter... 'Course they also drank out of LEAD cups and fucked little boys...
holy SH*T!!
8==D
Ah and this is why I i'll never return to mainland
Why I avoid Chinese food exports like the fricking plague.
Same here fortunately there's a law in my country where they must state the country of origin on all products.
If I see China on anything food related I put it back on the shelf.
They literally ARE the plague.
What happen to you China? You use to be so cool.
The commies took over...
When was that?
smart man
deserves a medal for ingenuity
I like how thy saw a camera person taking pictures of this the whole time, that camera would be broken if I where that guy.
He used a mobile...
So that's what that funny taste was...
what's teh problem, just soak the celery in clean water for 4 hrs
what if the pond has mercury, feces, aids, ebola and malaria in it?
i doubt it
More random shit in the water makes the veggies even heavier. Good for business.
It's sewage water.
It isn't sewage water. It is water with sewage in it. There is a difference. Most likely it is a fish pond. There are a lot of those in the country side. People just throw their trash in there, filling the water with sewage.
It counts as extra vegetable
was there even a point to your comment?
Damn asians!!!
*face palm* China will stop at nothing to make it's residents unhealthy...
It's business, lol.
So that's how they made them celery crunchy :D
Food - made in China. Ugh...
You know.. i stopped getting surprised at the Chinese's treatment of food long ago >.>
Still gross though.
I don't know how prevalent these types of things are, but if I ever go back to China I'll never look at food their same...
Really?
making something healthy -> Unhealthy =X
I used to dream of going to China, sightseeing and eating their delicacies. Oh well, nevermind.
the dumbass probably makes less money on the veggies than what he spends on gas to carry them back and forth. dishonest business 101. if it doesn't increase your profit exponentially, don't take the risk of illegal activity.
There is no risk.
Authority suporte this ...
Well not until someone reports to the authority.
In China the authorities either don't care or get paid or both.
The heavy metal makes the food extra heavy.
More weight, more profit...
but i thought minerals were good for you.
It's disgusting but hey, if it doesn't kill you it will make you stronger.
@06:34 Spawn more overlords! xD
Soft minerals are, heavy metals are toxic.
Everyone loves Heavy Metal \m/
You've not enough minerals... oh wait, we were not talking about Korea.
One more thing to avoid purchasing when I take my China vacation later this year... =/
At this rate, I'll be limited to imported goods only.
Fly to china from america to buy america imported product?
Maybe this is a plan from the Chinese government. They are trying to develop super resistant citizens by making them eat garbage food.
Soon, they'll develop super powers and invade the world!
Souns like they want to make chinese people into cockroaches
This is China QUALITY... never doubt the QUALITY...
Clearly, "You are what you eat"
what? radiation immunity?
只要信春哥，纯爷们的不怕吃地沟油之类的，你们外国人太nb了,教教我们怎么种菜吧～！或给点儿粮，养活我们1.4b人口。 咋不怕被骂，只怕你们扯牛逼装懂。 小鸡巴网搞得挺欢，一群人渣子。天天就知道看毛片打飞机的。你们还是乖乖的去看裸着的小日本女吧～
Don't even talk about small penises, you're writing in Chinese and everyone knows you guys are lucky if your dicks go past 2cm.
Maybe they are export commodities.
信春哥 无所谓
LOLZ.... Then kids in the future gets violent, dresses up cool gears, goth lolis, gangsta clothes and grab some insanely cool weapons bigger than their heads....
LOLZ.... I was playing S4L before I posted this.....
Souka souka, now I get it. What a brilliant idea from Chinese government.
1 rule to visit to China, Bring Your Own Food... Doesn't matter if it's noodle or w/e just don't eat food that is made in china. Only go there to buy inedible goods like toys, electronics...
The moral of these stories is to NEVER, EVER eat in china.
the real question is this: should we let people know about this? or lol at them when we see them get sick from "eating healthy?"
taking the term "What does not kill you will make you stronger" into another level
fine don't visit china, why bother? when 0.00000000000000000001 of the One point fucking Four billion people have ate unclean (cooked) celery. Its just so bad isn't it. Oh i heard there is more NIGGAZ get shot in urban district in the states than chinese die of cancer.. thats just so bad, you guys really prefer your hollow point bullets right?
Did you know nihon ryouri restaurant in tokyo taste just like the ones in beijing? (国贸） who carez where its sewage drenched...
Sewage in celery is perfectly safe. DO YOUR RESEARCH. P.S. I'm a celery scientist.
everything there's rubbish huh?
'should we let people know about this? or lol at them when we see them get sick from "eating healthy?"'
People who eat healthy should eat locally produced crops and meat whenever possible anyway. Which is a problem for the chinese..
China invented the new vitamins Hg, Cd, As and Pb...
When you can build bridges with garbage and make cooking oil out of sewage nothing is impossible...
It would seem there's a high demand for sewage in China.
They already breed like gokiburi, might as well learn to eat like gokiburi (they eat gokiburi too). China plan to take over world.
Come on...
This is obviously the work of a single unmoral merchant for profits and he's getting what he deserves by getting exposed online. Why else would it be posted on a Chinese site in the first place?
Then Artefact comes along and arrange it into a China hating post and everyone agrees with him? Seriously you guys are like brainwashed zombies who believe everything this guy says...
Translator's note: gokiburi means cockroach
but doesn't unhealthy equal good?
its china taking over another industry segment - junk food
needs more flavor *DIP*
People then wonder what are the causes of cancer.
This is their way of using Cancer to fight Cancer...
Or double up for Cancer overload.
Either way, Russian Roulette is all this is.
I make negative claims about the Chinese government because there is absolutely nothing positive to say about them. That regime needs to be destroyed, all involved need to be killed.
You want something to back this up? Look for news about China. Anything will do.
Schrobby, you've made a lot of claims about China and the Chinese government -all negative- in this thread post. Now... do you have anything to back up these comments?
All I see are nationalistic overtones and generalizations... not cool.
lol, finding positive things about any country on sankaku is unlikely. whether it's bitching about japanese women, american view on games, or chinese quality products.
but w.e. you seem to miss the fact that the country experienced double digit growth for the past decade, that the literacy rate climbed to nearly 99%. Not to mention how they're actually building infrastructures for LDCs instead of sending Coca Cola in, and expanding post secondary education with unprecedented growth.
keep hating a government that you know nothing about, nothing but propaganda by your pathetic county anyways.
The Chinese government basically doesn't care about the people. They have enough of them.
China?
Chinese style cancer sure is the strongest.
Rogue cells with a rare mutation that allows them to reproduce infinitely. There is no cause for cancer, other than the imperfection of the human genetic code.
how do you cure the cancer on the internets?
that, sir is a better question
please, enlighten me. Just FYI, I'm a Medical Doctor. So go ahead.. tell me your impressive anon internet knowledge..
What, exactly, do you think the word "carcinogenic" means?
@anon 6:37 ever heard about carcinogenic? quit pulling stuff outta your ass!
I don't think sewage will have any benefit against that.
I read this on the Internet so it must be true. I'm off to smoke a pack and eat some sewage veggies.