Is China making Plastic Rice?

You're welcome , ill stop by and pick up my carrots , beets and lettuce this weekend ;-P

my question is... when is america gonna get in on this sweet plastic rice deal

lol exactly

China is becoming the worst of all things; a totalitarian government based on a capitalist system. With 3 billion people there is no need to worry about protecting them, there will always be more workers available.

not if people stop purchasing their tainted products...

I don't think people are judging the whole country by the actions of the few greedy, but rather the Chinese government and its failure to regulate products and means of production...but hell, with Republicans in office, we should probably expect the same thing to happen over here.

Food is traded as a commodity on Wall Street, so regardless, most countries are doomed anyway.

You got voted down because people don't realize you are being sarcastic.

Lol and you got voted down for the same reason. ^'d

Perhaps, but I would be more inclined to presume that only an idiot would vote down something that clearly isn't even vote worthy up or down.

It's amazing that grasses were hybridized into rice, wheat and corn on differernt continents all at the same time some 8,000 years ago!
This has always seemed more than a coincidence to me.

...funny you should say that...a mate told me the other day to only buy garlic with red/pink colouration, as the white from China has bleach in it...I'm really starting to get pee'd off with playin' the..."Guess what crap is comin' out of China next" game...

Thank you very much, it's really great when someone posts something here that is actually a informative,and by the way, it's okay to post an actual link here, I'll try to find something on Gasland on YouTube, I did make some post on the situation in Egypt, and commented on Ann Coulter, thoughts?

Thanks! I did try to find Gasland on Hulu and a few other sites returned by a google search but all I came up with was short 2-3 minute clips. I recall viewing it but I'm not sure where. I'm fairly certain I did see it on the net though.

Regarding your other posts.....haven't read them yet but here's my take on Egypt,
I hope they do find their way to a true Democratic State so they can thumb their noses at all the naysayers.
Maddow did a segment on the naysayers and fear mongers.......glad I watched it because I was so busy trying to stay up on the "meaningful" news that I wasn't aware there were so many naysayers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908//vp/41542564#41542564

After reading about what's happening in Iran today (and other countries) I'm thinking the next two years will be very interesting.

Regarding Coulter......another shock jock like Beck.... if it can translate into ratings or income......nothing is sacred.
Let's face it......boring doesn't sell and some know how to capitalize on that better than most. The truly sad part is that they don't care about the damage they do along the way.

Didn't you hear the latest on HFC's?......they want to rename it to something that sounds more healthy. It will be the same genetically altered garbage....... just in a new more friendly package that their PR companies came up with.

Haven't you heard? It's called corn sugar now. They still ship train loads of tanker cars from Iowa and Illinois. It will be a cold day in hell when ADM and Cargill stop killing us with that stuff. Cargill claims their high fructose corn syrup is in 90% of all products found on your grocer's shelves.

I had heard that. Hell must be experiencing a cold snap because I've cut 'corn sugar' or whatever bullshit they want to call it out of my diet. Be aware of what's in your food and don't buy anything that has anything questionable. I speak with my wallet - the only language these bastards understand. Help me make that cold snap an ice age.

Don't give them any ideas....... like making toy soldiers edible..... YUK!

dirt burgers go good with boot soup...

I had me some of that boot soup, not bad cause it was the only thing on the menu!

I am flat out curious. Did you graduate High School?

If you weren't so childishly hell bent on the idea of "trolling socialists" you'd realize that capitalism is precisely the issue here: all those competing little companies in China now and petty little business men wanting to cheat a profit out of everyone because they're not clever enough to earn it legitimately.

That is a crying shame!

Jeez, and to think that there are people out there who are perfectly okay with this.

It truly is sad when so much is spent on war!

Only the government is. Business functions there in a pretty free, largely unregulated environment. Marx would cry and so would Mao.
The most "communist" thing about China are the restricted social freedoms, which ironically most conservatives would envy.

That's a lot of rice!

As squidpants says; it's probably a stock photo in order to illustrate the story, such things are common with the news sites these stories are linked to. That said, if you read carefully through the story you'll realize that this COULD actually be a photo of the rice in question- the "rice" is made by shaping types of potato and then coating it with plastic resin so it has the hard feel of real rice, so it's a safe bet that every grain is completely individual in any case. You'd make the potato mix into a rice shape by rolling it and tossing it in some sort of machine, not from moulds or dies.

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your no die or mould is fair enough ozoneocean

if that is indeed the case
how the cat hair did 2 striations on one side and one striation on the other
happen with each grain of rice

where i come from
exacting precision of that kind with infinite variation
only happens in nature

just sayin...
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There's a 90% chance that it IS a stock photo, because it's probably quite hard to come by a good image for a story like this.
But if we want to hypothesize a bit more, the striations could possibly be due to the internals of the plastic coated potato rice shrinking due to water loss through holes in the inssuficiant coating.

lulz...like the us and monsanto....i think thats not stopping them

Yeah, and we're going down the tubes too.

But you'd have to be a complete tool to think that a company that nobody likes who makes genmodded food to beat out competitors is worse than an autonomous (that is, regular citizen bred) phenomena of poison rice being distributed to make an extra buck.

One of these things is not like the other, and it's the reason I have some hope for the U.S. and am utterly skeptical of China.

You have hope do ya?http://current.com/news/92987722_geographically-challenged-us-politicians-mirror...

Not much hope, I'll give ya that.

I just see the potential of the United States, and holy shit is it wasted on some dumb crap.

I see the potential of the world once we wrestle it away from ruling class and religion to find real social democracy. I wish I had started participating at a younger age, but so go the sins of youth.

This isn't the sole thing that caused this judgment.

There's a bunch of shit that they do, as regular practice, that's completely god damn insane.

That's because the U.S. IS really fucked up, I have no illusions about that.

Look, live in a fantasy world all you want, China is a corrupt piece of shit country. People have to bribe their doctors to ensure they don't intentionally fuck things up. The state runs businesses with taxpayer dollars. My father tried to arrange a series of buses to be bought by one of their manufacturing companies, they delivered half the number requested and none of them were in working condition. It is standard business practice there to refuse to do anything correctly unless the buyer in question contacts their local ambassador to start a mini diplomatic dispute over the issue, in which case they will deliver the goods normally as promised, hoping to run off with the money in case the buyers weren't tenacious enough. You're talking about a country that spent hundreds of billions on their Olympic games while kicking half their residents out of Beijing if they were undesirable. They then distributed pamphlets talking about how not to act around foreigners to avoid embarrassing their country, including asking them not to publicly urinate on walls. You're talking about a country that had to shut down commerce during the Olympics because pollution there is so bad you can't fucking see the sun half the year round, and even then athletes were encouraged to wear fucking breath masks. This is the country that massacred its own people at Tienanmen square and established armed guards at the site upon its twenty year anniversary. You're talking about a country that regularly censors the internet, does not hold elections, does not have free speech, is a police state, executes and tortures people all the time, and is constantly hacking foreign countries for state secrets. You're talking about a country that regularly steals our engineering work to make cheap knockoffs for itself. You're talking about a country that's willing to debase its own population to utter squalor and abject misery to industrialize itself so our corporations can make a little extra buck.

How long do I have to go on? You're either COMPLETELY naive, or you're one of those Chinese people who gets PAID by the government to ensure no bad things are said about China online.

Let some of the weight of that sink in before you bother replying.

I don't know if they were hanged or not, but they were reportedly executed. However, that did not stop the practice. Indeed, some of the companies that were convicted originally were convicted again when they went right back to doing what they were doing before.

Also, the sale of the contaminated product actually became more widespread because the companies that were either investigated, or going to be investigated, dumped the product they had manufactured but not yet shipped onto smaller, out-of-the-limelight companies, who simply had new containers for their product made, with new names, filled up the containers, and continued shipping the product, as before.

More important, there were many babies who died from kidney damage. The ones who survived, many will be at risk for death from kidney disease for the rest of their probably-short lives.

The U.S. is failing to protect its people as long as it accepts exports from China. The lack of concern for public safety is so pervasive in China, and has been repeatedly demonstrated as being passed on in their exports to other countries, makes China's exports a clear risk to Americans if our government allows China to export anything to the U.S.

Our U.S. government is a co-conspirator with China to distribute the tainted goods as long as the U.S. government allows imports from China.

...and their organs likely immediately harvested and sold to some rich patient somewhere.

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i saw this story and flashed
so THAT's were all the melamine went...
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You forgot baby formula---they put melanine in baby formula, as well, and exported it to the U.S. and other countries.

Also, pet food--remember how many pets died because of tainted pet food?

That was a great clip... fiat food!

I don't consider a lack of a story from the AP or AFP indicative of suspicion of the credibility of the original story. Not at all.

When Bush/Cheney were president, Cheney was out of office for a heart procedure. It was anticipated that he would return to work the following Monday morning.

I was working late that night on another project, and happened to see the AP article as it was distributed.

The AP article was written as if it was 11:00 AM on the Monday Cheney was supposed to work. When I read the article, and when it was distrubuted, was about 1:00 AM in the morning of the Monday Cheney was supposed to return to work.

The article reported him showing up at the office on Monday at 7:00 AM, as is his usual schedule, meeting with staff for an hour, then meeting with the president at 9:00 AM for another hour. It went on to describe an event after that, but I forget what the event was.

Anyway, I didn't have much respect for AP's credibility before that, but I really lost respect for AP after that.

I wasn't the only one who saw that article, either. I exchanged emails with several colleagues about it, one of whom was Joe Conason.

i have seen the AP get busted a few times
but i haven't seen the Agence France-Presse get busted
that's why i look at them first and then the AP

i would bendover