Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.
The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.
It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.
Nooooo, it’s all Western lies!
I don’t consider myself a tankie, but I’ve been called one here, and I don’t think it’s a lie.
Nobody’s denying this, there’s plenty of Chinese sources reporting on it.
Funny how even when you actually have a true story to talk about you can’t resist making shit up.
Can’t find this posted in !worldnews@lemmy.ml. Can you link to one?
Posted it myself, just now, just for you.
To be clear, what you’re suggesting is that stories that the Chinese government is actively talking about would be censored on lemmy.ml. Let’s see if that’s true! Can’t wait to find out!
Nice. I am not really suggesting that they are being actively silenced, since I do see them there from time to time. What I do notice is that stories that are critical of China always get zero or barely any engagement.
Not really a good indicator of lemmy.ml’s willingness to discuss China’s flaws. This is in comparison to the wall of text that love to comment whenever it comes to defending China or blaming the western countries.
We’ll see how many lemmy.ml users comment on your post this time.
The claim I’m disputing is that people would deny that this is happening, not that they’re insufficiently critical according to your standards. I’m not interested in evaluating that purely subjective claim (a discussion in which the goalposts could easily be shifted all over the place), what I’m interested in is disproving the objectively false claim that lemmy tankies deny this specific story happening.
The fact of the matter is that the person I responded to lied. That’s all I’m saying. And for pointing out that objectively true fact, rather than anyone who disagreed supplying evidence, they just downvoted me, because apparently they think popularity is a substitute for truth.
Because it’s easier to call anything that disagrees with your world view as “lies” than to accept that the own world view is wrong.
Tankies are the masters of rejecting reality.
Well, since we have a disagreement about what’s true, then there’s one surefire way to settle it, right?
Evidence. If you’re saying that I’m lying and rejecting reality, surely you can point me to evidence that I’m wrong, right? So link me to the comments you saw of people denying this story.Oh wait, you can’t, because it didn’t happen. Because y’all make shit up about us all the time and never have the receipts, because fundamentally, we believe in basing our beliefs on evidence and you do not.
And when that evidence leads you to be right about world events like Trump, capitalism, and the rise of fascism, do you apologize for being right? No, you rub it in everyone else’s faces, and this makes me angry and frustrated. Can you not be nicer about being right?
Shit made me laugh, good one.
And yet, still zero evidence 🤔