Vinegar contaminated with antifreeze kills Chinese Muslims at Ramadan meal

[Yeti]

No, that is what the UN and Unicef say, as reported by BBC.

I didn't know anything about it, until I read all those BBC stories.

mm i can assure you we dont starve to death in India temples give free food to any that are hungry unless you can prove otherwise

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

mm i can assure you we dont starve to death in India temples give free food to any that are hungry unless you can prove otherwise

Sorry, I prefer to believe the UN Human Development report and UNICEF rather than some random internet poster.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6046718.stm

 

[CardSharp]

Done on purpose during Ramadan too

I knew someone would be stupid enough to take underhanded insinuation as fact.




Tainted vinegar blamed for 11 deaths in west China

People are such idiots. Anti-freeze and food in the same storage container?

but here is another example of the Western media trying to put a spin on a straight forward case of poor food safety.



Xinjiang Food Inspectors, Sepoys and the Corleone Hypothesis
Posted by Stan on 8/22/11 • Categorized as China News

Yes, the issue of tainted/poisonous/noxious food has been flogged mercilessly in the media and on this blog, but bear with me for this story. Although I realize that all consumers should be treated equally by government regulators, it just makes sense to me that special care should be taken in regions that are, well, um, predisposed to public displays of discontent.


Vinegar stored in plastic barrels that once contained antifreeze is suspected of killing 11 people and making 120 others sick in China’s northwest Xinjiang region, state media said on Monday, in the latest deadly food safety scandal to hit the country.



Police said residents of Sangzhu village, near Hotan, in the vast region that is home to many ethnic Uighur Muslims, had consumed the toxic vinegar on Saturday during a large Ramadan feast, the official Xinhua news agency reported. (Reuters)

You never want to see a story about food that has “antifreeze” in the first paragraph. But to have that incident take place out West, involving folks chowing down at night during Ramadan . . . not good, not good at all.

Indeed, I almost expect to read further in that wire service account about pork tallow and paper ammo cartridges. But let’s not go there.

Besides, we all know that a crazy conspiracy theory has no place here. This incident can be easily explained by negligence. Some evil putz stored vinegar in used antifreeze barrels. End of story, right?

Well, apparently not if you work for the Associated Press. Check out Subtle Alternative Theory #1:



It said the mass food poisoning occurred Saturday night in a village close to Hotan city in Xinjiang, a border region that abuts Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia. The victims were ethnic Muslims who were sharing an evening meal after the daily fast observed during the holy month of Ramadan.



Perhaps my brain was simply warped from consuming too much anti-Muslim news post-9/11, but does that passage reek of the sinister to you? Are you thinking what I’m thinking? (Yeah, clandestine border crossings of Afghan tribal religious fanatics and rogue Pakistani intelligence agents, all determined to stir up ethnic tensions in China’s hinterlands. {cue the vaguely Middle Eastern folk music.})

****, I don’t know. Maybe I’m a racist, or a reverse racist, or a bored blogger looking for trouble.

Then there’s AP Subtle Alternative Theory #2 (hat tip to @chinajinrong for pointing out this one):



Revenge attacks using rat poison or other chemicals are also common in China, where access to firearms and other deadly weapons is tightly controlled.



Yes, well, that certainly does seem plausible. Someone with an old worldish, tribal grudge figured out how to trick the vinegar hawker into storing his product in old antifreeze barrels. Devilishly clever, those natives.

But wait, check out that last bit. The only reason that this brilliant antifreeze gambit was employed was that firearms are not available. Get it? If the person with the grudge had a gun, then no vinegar problem, and no “collateral damage” (i.e., fewer deaths). A very American solution, and the reasoning here is of course impeccable. More guns = less violence and death. {cue Charlton Heston and his cold, dead hands}

So now the images of tribal warriors sneaking across the border at night have been replaced in my mind with Michael Corleone in Sicily, dodging goats and settling scores with the lupara. (Someone should tell the AP that women are more dangerous than shotguns.)

Hmm. Perhaps one reference too many. Let’s wrap this up.

Obviously the AP folks are hopped up on goofballs and should undergo drug testing or a few rounds of ECT. This was unfortunately a run-of-the-mill food scandal that just happened to take place out West during Ramadan.

That being the case, perhaps someone might wish to reconsider budgeting for food inspectors out there before the conspiracy theories gain traction on the Intertubes.

Sometimes what you report along with the news can direct the reader to into conclusions totally unsupported by the actual events.

 

[CardSharp]

whts wrong in that???


chinkis proved this earlier

You folks are class.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

leave this chinks,they can only roll the tanks over their citizens

Another Indian shows his face.

 

[Roybot]

Sorry, I prefer to believe the UN Human Development report and UNICEF rather than some random internet poster.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Hunger critical' in South Asia

You don't miss a chance do you.

 

[CardSharp]

You don't miss a chance do you.

Ignore the problem maybe it'll go away

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

You don't miss a chance do you.

LOL, maybe you thought you guys could get away with such blatant lies like these.

mm i can assure you we dont starve to death in India temples give free food to any that are hungry unless you can prove otherwise

Starve to death? you think India is somalia is this what they teach u in Chinese state schools?

 

[Roybot]

Ignore the problem maybe it'll go away

Don't see how rubbing it in helps the cause either.

LOL, maybe you thought you guys could get away with such blatant lies like these.

Oh damn you caught us out.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Oh damn you caught us out.

Don't mind us, we're only "slanty-eyed chinks".

 

[CardSharp]

chinks are not clear.their internet is censored,dont know how many poors in chinkland.
communist party of chinkis never disclose truth and chinkis here talk about poors of other countries
pathetic life they live,as paid 2 cent army

Hope your Spanish is better.

 

[Roybot]

Don't mind us, we're only "slanty-eyed chinks".

As if the the troll face in his DP, is not big enough hint for you to not take such tossers seriously.

 

[SpArK]

As if the the troll face in his DP, is not big enough hint for you to not take such tossers seriously.

Some just love to feed the trolls inorder to survive.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

As if the the troll face in his DP, is not big enough hint for you to not take such tossers seriously.

I admire honesty, and these guys seem to be the only ones who actually say what they really think.

 

[below_freezing]

chinks are not clear.their internet is censored,dont know how many poors in chinkland.
communist party of chinkis never disclose truth and chinkis here talk about poors of other countries
pathetic life they live,as paid 2 cent army

2 cents per post would pull half your population out of poverty. have some shame.