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Originally Posted by Captain Kawaii
coming to Japan to commit welfare fraud and buy real food. Food they can safely eat. Kinda sad for a "booming" country.
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Wu Shuliang and Qi Xianyi lost their 15-year-old son to cancer. They blame a hill of Chromium-6 waste dumped next to their rice paddy by a chemical factory in rural Yunnan province. To pay off the debt for his treatment, the couple feels they have no other choice but to sell their contaminated rice into China's food supply.
Significant implications
Officials are worried, because villages like these supply China with its food.
Five years ago, a soil survey taken from rice in three of China?s largest agricultural provinces shocked Chinese consumers.
Sixty percent of the rice samples showed excessive amounts of cadmium, a heavy metal that causes bone and kidney damage. At the time, Chinese scientists openly discussed the widespread contamination of China?s food supply. But these days, they?re not talking. Several scientists declined interviews with Marketplace. That?s because late last year, China?s communist party declared national soil surveys ?state secrets.?
Revealing China?s ?state secrets? can send you to prison.