Morning Jolt: Don’t Trust the Chinese Government’s COVID-19 Timeline

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Just When You Thought You Had Heard Everything about China's Wet Markets . . .

Today's "I can't believe that" report about wet markets in China, called to my attention by Morning Jolt reader David, is that apparently quite a few vendors use cooking oil that has been pulled from waste from sewer lines and other extraordinarily unsanitary locations:

China’s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil. Cooking oil is used heavily in Chinese food, so some street vendors and hole-in-the-wall restaurants buy cheap, black market oil that’s been recycled from garbage. You read that correctly. Enterprising men and women will go through dumpsters, trash bins, gutters and even sewers, scooping out liquid or solid refuse that contains used oil or animal parts. Then they process that into cooking oil, which they ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY April 09 2020 WITH JIM GERAGHTY April 09 2020 Don't Trust the Chinese Government's COVID-19 Timeline There is no Morning Jolt this Friday. Happy Easter in advance. Just When You Thought You Had Heard Everything about China's Wet Markets . . . Today's "I can't believe that" report about wet markets in China, called to my attention by Morning Jolt reader David, is that apparently quite a few vendors use cooking oil that has been pulled from waste from sewer lines and other extraordinarily unsanitary locations: China’s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil. Cooking oil is used heavily in Chinese food, so some street vendors and hole-in-the-wall restaurants buy cheap, black market oil that’s been recycled from garbage. You read that correctly. Enterprising men and women will go through dumpsters, trash bins, gutters and even sewers, scooping out liquid or solid refuse that contains used oil or animal parts. Then they process that into cooking oil, which they ...   READ MORE

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