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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