North Carolinians Sue Over Pig Manure Lagoons
In 2013, when Shuanghui International bought Smithfield Farms, America’s largest pork...
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Investigating China’s Purchase of American Pork
The Center for Investigative Reporting has produced a two-part series looking into Shuanghui...
China Denies Posing Threat to Global Food Security
China Real Time’s Chuin-Wei Yap reports the Chinese agriculture ministry’s rebuttal of...
Is China’s Pork Consumption Hurting The West?
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every...
China Cancels Thai Rice Deal Amid Graft Probe
After Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission launched investigations into embattled...
Food Imports Rise As Environment Declines
Since its early days, the PRC has aimed to be self-sufficient in its food supply. With continued...
Chinese Take-Out Returns to its ‘Spiritual’ Home
The Globe and Mail reports on Fortune Cookie, an expat owned American-style Chinese restaurant...
Majority of Chinese Oppose American GM Crops
The Economist reports that the debate over genetically modified crops has become especially heated...
No Pecan Pie? Thank China, Rain and Pigs
Kim Severson at the New York Times reports that unusually high pecan consumption in China,...
Should China Import More Grain?
After president Xi Jinping told farmers in Hubei that the Chinese “must rely on ourselves...
Rotten Fruit Juice & the Future of Food Safety in China
Reuters’ Adam Jourdan reports China’s latest food safety scandal: the alleged use of...
Ukraine [Update: Not] to Become China’s Largest Overseas Farmer
South China Morning Post’s Mandy Zuo reports China’s biggest overseas agricultural...
China’s Genetically Modified Food Fight
Media coverage of two recent policy actions have helped to revive public fears about GMOs in a...
China to Crackdown on Illegal Medicine Sales
China announced a crackdown on illegal medicine sales on Wednesday and said it would pursue stricter regulations for the pharmaceuticals industry, according to Reuters: The State Food and Drug Administration said the six-month...
Check The Date On Those Chicken Feet
Police in Nanning have confiscated twenty tons of smuggled chicken feet including some with labels from 1967, according to Shanghai Daily. Some are doubtful that the feet, found in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of...
Investigations Prompt Cheaper Prices On European Imports
Following a series of Swiss companies under scrutiny in China, Tetra Pak, a food packaging company, is under investigation for its business practices. The New York Times’ David Barboza reports that the State...
China Unveils Plans for Streamlined Government
China’s State Council has submitted widely-anticipated plans for the restructuring of several government agencies to the National People’s Congress. The seventh such initiative in the past 30 years, the new plan aims...
Europe Screens Tainted Chinese Food
CDT previously reported on the shift in anxieties among Chinese people, including food safety. With recent food scandals, such as the testing of golden rice on Chinese children, China sought to increase their food safety...
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