Posted on 08/14/2007 6:50:03 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
(BEIJING) - Chinese police raided a village where live pigs were force-fed wastewater to boost their weight ahead of a trip to the slaughterhouse, state media said, in the latest case to highlight the country's poor food safety record.
Four trucks packed with 80 live pigs were found by Beijing police on Wednesday in a vacant lot on the southern outskirts of the capital, the Beijing Morning Post reported on Thursday.
Plastic pipes had been forced down the pigs' throats and villagers had pumped each 100 kilogram pig with 20 kilograms of wastewater, the paper said.
The case underscored China's chaotic food safety situation, where manufacturers and distributors often use unapproved additives or dyes, falsify expiry dates or find other methods of cutting corners to eke out small profits.
Paperwork found at site showed the pigs were headed for one of the city's top slaughterhouses and stamps on their ears indicated that they had already been through quarantine and inspection, the paper said.
No arrests were made because the suspects ran away, it said.
Small pigs, aren't they?
Similar things have been known to happen at US farm shows...totally illegal and against rules of competition.
Wonder how many weeks until PETA takes notice?
omg
Duncan Hunter is starting to look better and better considering this China stuff.
At this rate I don’t think the world will make it to the Olympics in ‘08.
One year is a long way to go — they’ll be an “incident” and hell will break loose.
True that.
One wonders, however, how news about the place keeps escaping, and why the MSM would run such stories.
...an interesting parallel to what American CEOs are trying to do to profit margins by outsourcing production to this irresponsible nation (regardless of the safety threat it poses to American consumers).
OMG
Purchase products that are 100% MADE IN THE USA!
Continue to take a stand and be a voice for our pets and our loved ones! Do everything you can to boycott goods made by China and this includes ingredients made in China, Chinese plant processing and Chinese exporting!
Our animals couldn’t speak for themselves.
Were they the canaries of the food chain?
We have to protect our families now.
BOYCOTT CHINA!!!!!!
Thanks for the ping JACK.
Not just water... waste water..that should of been in the headline.
I think I’ll skip the sweet and sour pork.
One year is a long way to go — they’ll be an “incident” and hell will break loose.
Beijing AP.
China’s national olympic weightlifting team was found in trucks out side the olympic complex this AM. with PVC pipes
forced down their throats, they had been force fed Steroids
in an attempt to circumvent the Olympic rules.
The 300 lb. males had been forced to consume over 20 lb.of industrial steroids after having passed the manditory
drug tests. “It’s an internal affair! No mess in China interrrnal afffairs!!!”, cried Long gon Hu, the team’s physician and industrial administrator.
etc. etc.
Here's another one of the poor creatures that they rescued. This picture was taken just before it threw up all the wastewater it consumed.
I like your tagline.
SHOCKING! Pigs eating sh*t! Whoda thunk it?
Disgusting —— barbarians.
Chinese eat anything that wiggles.
To bad he doesn’t make more out of it.
When the China mess becomes a campaign issue I suspect a lot of top tier candidates will be doing an interesting dance trying to attract voters and appease the big money corporate donors who deal with China.
My momma always told me, “Never look at (or question) the ingredients of a Chinese egg roll.”
Momma was much wiser than I ever gave her credit for.
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