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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Do you think China's food safety record will gradually improve?
11 years 33 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
It will improve as the economy improves.
derek:
According to the Chinese, their economy improves by leaps and bounds yearly...yet I see little in the way of food safety improvement. Care to explain your theory? How much "better" does their economy need to get?
derek:
Sorry mArtiAn...it was I who gave you the infamous thumbs down here. I trust my reason was satisfactory. I do welcome the usual witty banter as per our contracted agreement.
mArtiAn:
Those food standards are low because they're mostly for domestic consumption and the manufacturers can get away with cutting corners in production. My wife works in international trading and according to her the standards of the food sent to Hong Kong from mainland China are much much higher than those of food distributed on the mainland. We wouldn't buy that shit in the west because we can afford to demand and maintain higher standards, but most of mainland China is not in a solid enough position economically to make such demands. But when people here can 'afford' to raise their standards, you better believe they will.
So.........down-thumbed me did you? Hmmmmmmm, YOU SIR, are a CAD, and I deMAND satisfaction! PISTOLS AT DAWN!
Hmmmmmmm. No pistols, ehhh? Well I do have a pair of frozen kippers we could hit each other with. Hmmmmmmmmm. So be it.........FROZEN KIPPERS AT DAWN!
derek:
.....and to the victor goes the........" modulator"................yes I went there!
mArtiAn:
The modulator? That old thing? I sold that ages ago. Bought myself a snowboard!
It will certainly improve depending on the improvement of education and as my friend M here mentioned also economy
I think it will improve as awareness of the problems improves and that awareness is already improving via the internet, weibo etc.
After all, there' almost nothing more guaranteed to adversely affect your business as poisoning your customers.
However, baby products aside, is it that bad for native Chinese? In two years I've had one bad case of D&V but I don't know of any native Chinese who has. (Of course it may just be they're not telling me about it). So it is just us laowei have weak constitutions?
Gradually?
I guess it's possible that in time, anybody can state that it has improved "gradually". Gradually is a very vague term and I wonder how anyone can actually prove when improvement has been achieved due to that phrasing.
The best chance of it improving is if that kind of law is enforced. People who sell the messed up food only care about the money, right? So who is going to make them follow safety standards? Not the improvement of the economy. It doesn't help that everyone is kind of used to it and just accepts it and thinks they can't do anything to change it.
Truth be told, the average Chinese person wants their food cheap too, right? Safety comes at a price. Can they afford that? Will they want to afford that? Will safety food inspectors do their jobs honestly, or will the just be another middleman that will want a bribe? Will the average Chinese person trust a safety inspector to do his job? There are just too many variables to know when, how, and if it will improve.