North Carolinians Sue Over Pig Manure Lagoons
In 2013, when Shuanghui International bought Smithfield Farms, America’s largest pork...
Mar 11, 2015
In 2013, when Shuanghui International bought Smithfield Farms, America’s largest pork...
Sep 23, 2014
The Center for Investigative Reporting has produced a two-part series looking into Shuanghui...
May 21, 2014
China Real Time’s Chuin-Wei Yap reports the Chinese agriculture ministry’s rebuttal of...
Mar 27, 2014
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every...
Feb 4, 2014
After Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission launched investigations into embattled...
Jan 7, 2014
Since its early days, the PRC has aimed to be self-sufficient in its food supply. With continued...
Dec 17, 2013
The Globe and Mail reports on Fortune Cookie, an expat owned American-style Chinese restaurant...
Dec 15, 2013
The Economist reports that the debate over genetically modified crops has become especially heated...
Nov 28, 2013
Kim Severson at the New York Times reports that unusually high pecan consumption in China,...
Oct 24, 2013
After president Xi Jinping told farmers in Hubei that the Chinese “must rely on ourselves...
Sep 24, 2013
Reuters’ Adam Jourdan reports China’s latest food safety scandal: the alleged use of...
Sep 23, 2013
South China Morning Post’s Mandy Zuo reports China’s biggest overseas agricultural...
Sep 4, 2013
Media coverage of two recent policy actions have helped to revive public fears about GMOs in a...
Jul 18, 2013
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...
Jul 7, 2013
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...
Jul 6, 2013
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...
Mar 10, 2013
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...
Oct 21, 2012
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...