NationStates Jolt Archive

This isn't one of those "I had garlic sandwich" threads, so bear with me. The thread title was a rhetorical question - heh.

Anyway, Mainland China just banned exports of freshwater fish and products to Hong Kong and Macau - which equals 80% of the Hong Kong supply based on concerns that food fed to freshwater eels in the Chinese eel farms contained cancer-causing chemicals:http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4170000/newsid_4170700/4170722.stm (in Chinese, if you can translate, please do.)

Together with pork (with that nasty whatzitname disease that killed at least 30), freshwater fish now adds on to the list of products that are not completely safely edible food in Hong Kong:

Vegetables (mostly from China): fear of excessive amounts of chemical fertiliser
Seawater fish (mostly from China): fear of poisoning
Beef (mostly from China, Japan and the US): mad cow disease
Chicken, ducks, and gease (mostly from China): avian flu

Hong Kong is one of the richest cities in the world and yet we can't have safe food to eat. *sighz* :(

Let me starve. :p

Unedible food will be an increasing problem as the real costs of our 'productivity' start ringing up at the register.

Considering all the slap dash methods employed in various parts of the food chain, and the numerous processes applied to so many foods before we eat them, sticking stuff in your mouth and swallowing is a dangerous (even though still necessary) activity, it's almost enough to put you off your dinner.... ;)