Angry in the Great White North
Chinese learning about the food contamination via the web
Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 08:03 AM

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Chinese authorities are maintaining the position that their country's food exports are safe, and not responsible for the pet food melamine contamination that has been detected on three continents. Meanwhile, the web is acting as a conduit for information, getting around Chinese censors.


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Angry in the Great White North is not banned in China.

At least, not yet.

But via a Taiwanese-registered blog and photo album service, wretch.cc, my blog was accessed for nearly a half-an-hour by someone in Beijing, China, reading up anything they could find out about the melamine-contamination of pet food.

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Interesting. I wonder what will happen if there is a wide-ranging ban on Chinese food imports (besides another effort by Chinese authorities to block websites and censor information). Chinese authorities will rail against illegal Western trade practises aimed at containing rising Chinese emergence on the world stage. But some people with access to information will be wondering whether it is a good idea to be eating what they are being sold in the local shops, and whether they've been told the truth.

I'd be worried too.

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