China’s poor treated to fake rice made from plastic: report

COMMENT: What do you expect, they’ve already been caught putting plastic in American food, and the FDA does nothing.

David Edwards
Raw Story
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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.
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