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Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.

The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.

It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

I'm pretty sure less than 14 people in a year jumped off of Google's headquarters.

(Insert virtually any other non-Chinese corporation or factory not located in China in Google's place.)

I'm also pretty sure Google didn't have to install suicide nets.

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Google isn't the equivalent to Foxconn. It would be more like Ford or some Detroit automaker.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Which one of them has suicide nets?

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

NYU and Cornell have done so

Google has had suicides, but no prevention schemes

The real answer is that the Detroit car factories aren't tall enough to kill anyone. People pick more practical locations like Hudson Yards or the Golden Gate Bridge.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

One post ago:

Google isn’t the equivalent to Foxconn. It would be more like Ford or some Detroit automaker.

This post:

NYU and Cornell have done so

Are NYU and Cornell like Ford or some Detroit automaker? Otherwise, I'm pretty sure you're defeating your own point.

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