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>massive waste and spoilage in the supply chain. Maybe in the west, but not the case in China, food is relatively expensive, so very little is wasted, even poi
by balola 7y ago
>massive waste and spoilage in the supply chain.
Maybe in the west, but not the case in China, food is relatively expensive, so very little is wasted, even poisonous rice can find snack factory buyers. Restaurant waste is colleted by small pig farms.
- dirtyid 7y agoChina's food supply chain has a lot of inefficiencies spread over many small farmsteads with old technology and poor conditions instead of highly mechanized large agriculture farms in the west. I don't remember the exact numbers but lost in harvest, storage, transportation, refining was equivalent to total food imports before it reaches consumers. There's also massive waste in food services, the number is something ridiculous like enough to feed 400 million annually. This was from a study from ~5 years ago.
- nitrogen 7y agoWhat makes rice poisonous, and how is it made safe for use in snacks?
- jajag 7y agoPossibly referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice#Bacillus_cereus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice#Bacillus_cereus
- balola 7y agoRice with heavy metal such as cadmium, it's pretty common so many don't even test it, those that are unfortunate to be tested can still be sold to rice snack factories.