Keeping the Mystery Out of China's Meat

[MachineGhost]

The reason is simple: Western companies that sell tainted products can suffer damage to their reputations and incur legal liabilities, even if they had nothing to do with the manufacturing of the goods. “Many giant retailers have a strong incentive to take actions where state and local governments are not doing what they are supposed to do,”? says Ching-Fu Lin, a researcher at the Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... s-in-china

[Pointedstick]

What?! You mean to tell me that the private sector faces its own set of incentives not to sell products that will kill their customers in the absence of government regulation? I don't believe this fringe wingnut libertardian nonsense for one minute, good sir!

[doodle]

What?! You mean to tell me that the private sector faces its own set of incentives not to sell products that will kill their customers in the absence of government regulation? I don't believe this fringe wingnut libertardian nonsense for one minute, good sir!

What about gradually poison their customers?

[Pointedstick]

What?! You mean to tell me that the private sector faces its own set of incentives not to sell products that will kill their customers in the absence of government regulation? I don't believe this fringe wingnut libertardian nonsense for one minute, good sir!

What about gradually poison their customers?

I don't think people like being gradually poisoned, either. Anywhere you find corporations selling such products, you'll generally find people who actually do like to be gradually poisoned, perversely enough. The problems is not the sellers but the buyers.

[dualstow]

Wal-Mart has learned that lesson repeatedly on the mainland, most recently when authorities earlier this year said meat sold as donkey at its Chinese stores contained fox DNA, triggering a recall by the Bentonville (Ark.)-based retailer.

I think some Western readers must wonder if the donkey meat is much better than the fox meat. I've never knowingly had fox, but I did have donkey dumplings in Qingdao (Tsing-tao), and they were actually quite good.

What a mess, though. I am so tired of Chinese scams rip-offs, and so are many Chinese.