China Segment

Feds’ blog about life in China, living in Shanghai

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What’s in Your Food?

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

 
All the news stories about product recalls and E. coli scares in the States brought my mind back to the above picture.
Hate to say it - both my grandfathers were farmers and one of my uncles still is - but farmers spray all kinds of nasty chemicals on to the foods that we eventually eat.  [...]

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Tags: Food & Drink · Health & Safety

Life On the Farm

October 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Stooking by hand is a rather labor intensive, right? This dude must be 60, but he’s still doing it on his own. Actually, most of the farmers near the village of Qingchuan, a couple hours away from Qiandao Hu (Thousand Island Lake, which leads to many jokes about salad dressing), are in [...]

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Tags: Countryside