Penn
05-18-2011, 07:10
New food scandal as fields of watermelons are destroyed after farmers mistakenly apply growth accelerator
A casual walk down Canal Street in NYC will attest that this was no accident, the culture is motivated by profit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/17/exploding-watermelons-chinese-farming
Fields of watermelons exploded when he and other agricultural workers in eastern China mistakenly applied forchlorfenuron, a growth accelerator. The incident has become a focus of a Chinese media drive to expose the lax farming practices, shortcuts and excessive use of fertiliser behind a rash of food safety scandals.
It follows discoveries of the heavy metal cadmium in rice, toxic melamine in milk, arsenic in soy sauce, bleach in mushrooms, and the detergent borax in pork, added to make it resemble beef.
A casual walk down Canal Street in NYC will attest that this was no accident, the culture is motivated by profit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/17/exploding-watermelons-chinese-farming
Fields of watermelons exploded when he and other agricultural workers in eastern China mistakenly applied forchlorfenuron, a growth accelerator. The incident has become a focus of a Chinese media drive to expose the lax farming practices, shortcuts and excessive use of fertiliser behind a rash of food safety scandals.
It follows discoveries of the heavy metal cadmium in rice, toxic melamine in milk, arsenic in soy sauce, bleach in mushrooms, and the detergent borax in pork, added to make it resemble beef.