Fake what? From China? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Lightages
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 03:59:05 am
content: I am sure some of you have already been following this, but for those of you who think China is just making bad multimeters:and there is so much more.....

author: RobertoLG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 04:12:32 am
content: that is scary! fake food? dunno what to say...

author: rx8pilot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 04:19:39 am
content: The USA will be importing this crap soon as most consumers blindly demand lower prices on everything without any concern for why it is cheap.

author: Len
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 04:51:07 am
content: You people haven't been paying attention, this has been going on for years.The worst wasadulterated infant formulathat killed several babies and sickened thousands.Tainted pet food from Chinawas recalled in several countries after pets started dying.

author: jfasoc
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 06:25:10 am
content: One reason why importing in China is increasing quickly. Many Chinese people don't trust anything "Made in China".

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 06:31:20 am
content: I always buy Australian made and support companies Australian-owned companies when it comes to food. We're lucky in the sense that just about everything we want is produced here. Even if I have to pay a little more, you can definitely tell the difference in quality. My only exceptions to this are some items which are traditionally Japanese and some Italian cheeses. That said, we are fortunate enough to have some of the worlds best produce; We produce some of the worlds finest wines and scotch's, some amazing cheeses from Tasmania and Barossa Valley and amazing summer fruits (mangos, passion fruit, nectarines, pineapples...).

author: MrSlack
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 06:43:59 am
content: China are pretty hard on people who pull this sort of thing. Someone put melamine in baby milk as a bulker. So they executed him.There are always bad eggs. I've seen just as bad things in the UK to be honest.

author: station240
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 02:10:14 pm
content: The plastic rice and melamine laced milk I knew about, but the others.is wrong with some people in China.I also found this:China's "Garbage Fed Beef" Food ScandalYeah free range beef on the actual landfill with the bulldozers.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 02:20:06 pm
content: Quote from: RobertoLG on March 09, 2016, 04:12:32 amThat's one way to take care of an overpopulated country.Wouldn't put it past the Chinese government to to turn a blind eye toward this...

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 02:27:21 pm
content: Quote from: rx8pilot on March 09, 2016, 04:19:39 amThe US has that GM food. If we are lucky, they are not going to dump all that garbage at a discount price to the rest of the world.Now, plastic food is a new level of bad. I mean, what kind of ignorance and greed do you need for this to happen?If your stomach can take it:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_China

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 02:48:22 pm
content: look for 'gutter oil' if you wanna see somethign really disgusting ...https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/28/you-may-never-eat-street-food-in-china-again-after-watching-this-video/

author: Wytnucls
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 03:01:02 pm
content: Don't single out China:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-16/the-parmesan-cheese-you-sprinkle-on-your-penne-could-be-wood

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 03:36:49 pm
content: Quote from: NANDBlog on March 09, 2016, 02:27:21 pmWhat staple food isn't GM? Fish maybe? Really I fail to see what the uproar is about, modern GM is just another tool like ye olde fashioned cross breeding, hybridisation, and artificial selection GM. People don't like the idea of terminator seeds produced by modern techniques, something that doesn't exist and no one is selling, but I'll admit that is a good example of what could go wrong. But no one has a problem with ones produced with ye olde fashioned GM techniques that do exist and have for centuries :/

author: Shock
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 03:36:49 pm
content: Adding shit and rotten meat to tofu for flavor then dosing it with insecticide takes the cake in my opinion.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 03:43:29 pm
content: Quote from: Mechanical Menace on March 09, 2016, 03:36:49 pmNot at all lkie cross breeding.That's just another apples and oranges example of misdirection.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 03:44:49 pm
content: Some people, like a former classmate will put anything in their mouth.

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 03:52:14 pm
content: Quote from: AF6LJ on March 09, 2016, 03:43:29 pmCross breeding takes genes from one species and hopefully puts them in another in the way you want. Hybridisation takes genes from one species and hopefully puts them in another in the way you want. Hybridisation takes genes from one species and more reliably hopefully puts them in another in a way you want. Yeah, not at all alike because... ?

author: Kalvin
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 04:24:26 pm
content: Quote from: Wytnucls on March 09, 2016, 03:01:02 pmTypically people consume too little fibre, so this parmesan will increase nicely your daily fibre consumption.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 04:25:00 pm
content: Quote from: Mechanical Menace on March 09, 2016, 03:52:14 pmYou need to look up the definition of cross breeding.It does not involve direct manipulation of genes, that is genetic modification.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 10:09:45 pm
content: Quote from: Mechanical Menace on March 09, 2016, 03:36:49 pmNo kidding, I have one person who freaks out over the thought of GM food, but pretty much everything you can buy nowadays is nowhere near what it used to be.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2016, 10:25:27 pm
content: Quote from: Wytnucls on March 09, 2016, 03:01:02 pmI've never understood why people buy pre-grated cheese. It's cheaper to buy a real block of cheese and grate what you need yourself. I put grated cheese in the same category as pre-packaged salads or scrambled eggs from a carton.

author: macboy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2016, 08:18:48 pm
content: Quote from: MrSlack on March 09, 2016, 06:43:59 amYes, there have always been "bad eggs", but now in China you might get man-madefake eggstoo.

author: sony mavica
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2016, 08:39:08 pm
content: im staying away from noodles now

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 11, 2016, 04:02:12 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on March 09, 2016, 10:25:27 pmSome people have trouble operating a cheese grater.You know it is complicated.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 11, 2016, 04:04:21 pm
content: Quote from: sony mavica on March 10, 2016, 08:39:08 pmJust stay away from anything that is grown / made in China.They killed tens of thousands of dogs and pats with their fake pet food.Like I said before; some people will putANYTHINGin their mouth.

author: Kalvin
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2016, 05:30:41 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on March 09, 2016, 10:25:27 pmNot everyone has a rasp in their toolbox in order to be able to enjoy this parmesan.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2016, 05:53:05 pm
content: Wherever there is money to be made, there will be adulteration. A few examples, of the top of my head...Early 1980s Austria: ethylene glycol added to wine ("would you like red white or blue wine, sir")Standard German joke: "What will you get for your Auslese, Johann". "Ten years, if I'm caught".Mozarella contaminated with dioxins, because the Camorra illegally dumped household and industrial waste on farmland.All over Europe: beef which has never been near a cow, since horsemeat is cheaper.Old English trick for making milk look fresher is to sprinkle flowers of sulphur on it.Having said that, Chinaisgoing through anexceptionallydangerousperiod w.r.t. food. But it is still a better diet than many people had during Mao's Great Leap Forward, when some ate stones and millions died.