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Monday, June 27, 2011

"FOOD IS THE PEOPLE'S GOD": CHINA THEN AND NOW


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FOOD SAFETY  
FEARS 
IN CHINA 


MOTHER & DAUGHTER & CHOPSTICKS 
XI'AN, CHINA, 1981 

Barbara Demick has a powerful article in the Los Angeles Times about food safety scares in China today, with this quote from one  Xiao Andong: "We have a saying in China that 'food is the people's god,' so obviously it is very scary for ordinary people when things like this happen" (for details, see here). 

Above, a photograph of the pleasure of eating thirty years ago, at the start of "Reform & Opening Up"; here and here, two samples of one free market in food at the same time (Eat Fresh!  Eat Local). 

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CHINA THEN & NOW 

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