Taxi Drivers Drink Pesticide in Beijing Protest
A group of more than ten taxi drivers tried to commit suicide on Saturday by drinking pesticides...
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Nearly Half of Chinese Food Plants Fail Inspections
DPA International reports that approximately half of all Chinese food plants inspected in 2014 has...
Former Police Attempt Suicide by Pesticide
On December 4, China’s first official Constitution Day, six former police officers from...
Twelve Petitioners Attempt Suicide in Beijing
The Telegraph’s Tom Phillips reports on two separate incidents in which a total of 12...
Is China’s Pork Consumption Hurting The West?
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every...
Fatal Misperception: How Unsafe Is Chinese Food?
At the Council on Foreign Relations, Yanzhong Huang challenges official claims that China’s food safety problems are overblown, and prescribes a more extensive, stringent and streamlined regime of food inspections. Is...
Tainted Chinese Herbs Are Harming, Not Healing
A Greenpeace investigation of Chinese herbal products (PDF) reveals that high concentrations of pesticides are polluting the environment and making China’s traditional medicine harmful to human health. From Sue-Lin Wong...
China’s Apple Farmers Forced to Do Bees’ Work
At chinadialogue, Dave Goulson describes how heavy pesticide use has wiped out wild bees in the south west of China, leaving farmers to take over the job of pollination. Evidence from around the world points to falling and...
China Sets Bees on American Immigrants
Northern Chinese forestry authorities released over half a billion bees in order to suppress a destructive plague of American moths, according to Xinhua: Forestry authorities in north China’s city of Baoding released 600...
7 Injured, Thousands Flee after Plant Explodes
Xinhua reports on an explosion at a pesticide factory in Shandong: An explosion caused by careless handling of chemicals ripped through a pesticide factory in east China’s Shandong Province Wednesday, raising pollution...
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