07/08/24 - Companies point out that mixing chemical and food oil trucks is a common practice in the industry.
[Just today, news that transport trucks for Sinograin use the same barrels to transport cooking oil as machine oil and kerosene and other industrial fluids.] Daily Economic News writes, “#Mixed oil barrels might be involved in restaurant supply chains. According to news reports on the 8th, the two food oil processing companies in question are in the middle of the production chain. They receive products from oil plantation companies and supply to transportation and marketing companies.
Their oils flow towards the market through two main channels. One is selling unpackaged oil to customers who tend to be medium-small oil packaging plants themselves, who produce cans of cooking oil to sell to consumers. The bigger channel is packaging it as bottled cooking oil and selling towards individual consumers through their own in-house brand.
In Huifu Cooking Oil’s reply to reporters, we can see that the kerosene cans were used to transport oil to packaging plants. And in their promotional materials, some of the clients they sell to include Yawang Foods, Fuyao Agricultural Products, Kaiye Cooking Oil, etc, etc.
Based on public information, many of these companies supply to restaurants. For example, Century Yuefu was established in 2015 and mainly deals in processed agricultural goods. They are known for supplying university cafeterias, and supplied Capital Teaching University, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Beijing University with cooking oil. Yawang’s official website claims that their clients include various farm goods markets, cafeterias, and food processing plants.
Century Yuefu has responded to reporters saying that they have their own dedicated truck team and obey national food safety laws strictly. Shanghai’s Kaiye Cooking Oil claims, “We do big business. We’re not Huifu’s customer’s. Huifu buys from us, actually.”
Currently, Sinograin and Huifu has not published a list of companies their cooking oil sells to. Huifu’s workers claim they are proactively cooperating with investigation, and currently, the relevant departments have ended their investigation into the company, and we should await official news.”
Comments say, “It’s in all your food. This isn’t the only two companies doing this shit.”
“What’s getting exposed is only the tip of the iceberg.”
“They’ve been doing this for at least 9 years, haven’t they?”
#Hunan Hengyang posts article calling for investigation into cooking oil tranportation trucks in 2013. “Hunan, Hengyang City’s official government website published an article in 2013, calling for stricter enforcement against illegal trucks transporting cooking oil. “We’re a big marinade city with a lot of chemical manufacturing. There’s a lot of companies that specialise in transporting industrial chemicals. And a couple of those companies will use chemical transport trucks to transport cooking oil in order to save on costs and maximise illegal gains. Food safety laws explicitly require that the equipment for storing, transporting, and dispensing food must be safe, harmless, and clean, to prevent food contamination. Food must never be transported with toxic substances. Using chemical transport trucks to haul cooking oil is against food safety laws and road laws. Food Safety Bureau and Traffic Safety Bureau needs to increase patrols and press charges against drivers caught violating the law.”
Comments say, “This is the bad part about not having faith.”
“2013!? Hold on a fucking minute. Let me do some maths. This is July, 2024. So, let me do some math. Fuck! That’s 11 years from 2013 to 2024! Eleven goddamn years! Can anyone tell me how much fucking oil went through them in 11 years? Someone investigate this! @Xinhua News @CCTV @PLA News @Beijing Youth News @Chinese Firefighters @Supreme Court. We want the truth!!!”
“It doesn’t matter if the media reported on it. Public opinion doesn’t decide any policy.”
#What’s it like to have teachers as parents? #I’m his child not his student. “A while ago, in the reality TV show “Daughters and Moms”, actress Tao Xinran spoke about her teacher mom’s high-pressure parenting style, receiving a lot of resonance among other children of teachers. It’s made “psychological problems among the children of teachers” a hot topic of discussion too. We can see the pain of growing up as the child of a teacher on social media, and we can see the stress and pressure that teachers are under. Why is everyone so interested in the difficulties of parenting as a teacher? Can we get a better insight into the “education problem” through these teachers? We found three teaching families to talk about their real life experiences. This is what they told us:
“My parents were both middle school teachers. My dad even wrote a lot of educational books. They think their parenting style is progressive and liberal. With their efforts, I began studying abroad at 15-years-old, and eventually got into a very good university in England. But where my mom and dad can’t see, I’ve also been seeing a psychiatrist and taking anti-depressants. Maybe I’ll have to spend the rest of my life trying to heal the trauma from my birth family.”
“My mom told me straight that she gave all her energy and patience to school. When she comes home, all she has left is fatigue. She doesn’t have the energy to teach me too. She wanted me to work hard on myself, to achieve “I have what others don’t have, I have the best of what others do have.” I have to be polite, hard-working, humble…Wanting your cake and eating it too has never been a paradox in my family, but a normal expectation put on kids. In order to gain my mom’s approval, I learned “the early bird gets the worm” fast, and I worked harder than any of my peer. And yet, no matter how well I did, I never satisfied her endless desires. If I get 98 points, she’ll say someone got 100 points. If I get 100 points, she’ll say plenty of other people got 100 points too. When I was little, I always wondered, just what would I have to do to make her happy with me?”
“I’m always surrounded by such great students, so I always stubbornly believed that my son would be better than any of them. Until one time, I took my students to a technology competition, and I discovered the first time I might have been wrong. At the competition, I saw many extremely talented kids, who weren’t just geniuses—their parents were on a different level than I was too. Like kids of college professors have access to the sort of resources that would destroy my child. If they want to do experiments, they can make use of the university labs. If they can’t get their statistics right, their college professor parents are always on call for help. This was beyond my understanding, and for the first time, I felt helpless as a parent. And in that moment, I discovered how many teachers pull their kids up by the roots to help them grow.”
Comments say, “There are plenty of kids who are bright and smart and accomplished with teacher parents.”
“I’m a teacher, and among my coworkers and my teachers growing up, their kids are always one of two extremes. They’re either excellent or they’re terrible.”
“My parents are both teachers, and I think the biggest problem with parents who are teachers is that they’ll subconsciously bring their authority home. They’re always right. They can never make a mistake. It never matters what their kids say.”
#Multiple companies deny using kerosene trucks to transport cooking oil. #You can still purchase cooking oil as normal from Sinograin. “According to Southern City News, lately, everyone has been paying attention to the case of using unwashed kerosene trucks to transport cooking oil. Among the accused companies, Sinograin openly claimed that they have began a system-wide investigation. Another company, Huifu Cooking Oil, responded to reporters saying that government agencies are investigating this case, and most of the oil in question were unpackaged and sold directly to customer.
On the afternoon of the 8th, cooking oil has been taken off of the official online store of Sinograin. But at 10PM the same night, Southern Bay Economic’s reporters found that the oil was purchasable again on the official store. Customer service claimed that all their products obey national food safety standards.
More importantly, Jin Long Yu, Jing Liang, and various other companies responded to investors, claiming that they do not have such regulation violations. But other companies point out that mixing chemical and food oil trucks is a common practice in the industry.”
Comments say, “Reporters have been writing about this since 2015. It’s no use.”
“If they mix the oils without washing the cars first, isn’t that Contaminating Food crime?”
“Obviously, this is all America’s fault.”
“Hahahahaha, I’ve noticed that electric car salesmen are completely different from traditional car salesmen.
I was sitting in the back seat of a Xiaomi SU7 and I was like, “This is a beautiful car. It’s a lot roomier in there than I thought.”
And the sales guy was like, “It’s pretty, sure, but it’s not great for family use. Don’t just look at leg room. You’re 180cm, you gotta look at head room too. If the road is even slightly bumpy, you’re gonna be knocking your head on the ceiling with your height…I bought an SUV from [insert electric car brand]. SUVs are better suited for families…”
I’m still in the mindset 5 years ago, when car dealerships gave you free sunflower seeds and drinks and all kinds of gifts if you walk in to buy a car and talk up their products to no end. I’m not really used to this reverse psychology tactic.
I guess with their brand name out there, they’re not worried about sales, so the sales people are getting chill too, hahahahaha.”
Comments say, “I demand my cars support CarPlay.”
“Electric car companies are using the same tactics as phone companies. I’d be cautious though. After all, you need to drive that car.”
“When my friend went for a test drive, he said he wanted all the accessories on his SU7, and the sales guy was like, “All these accessories are just a bunch of hassle. I wouldn’t bother with any of them.””
“Trying to get into a postgrad degree is like having four boyfriend at the same time. English is the hardest—he likes his romances slow and steady. You have to put in a ton of energy just to maintain the relationship, talk to him every day, figure out his personality and characteristics. Basic Education is like a uni student, fun, makes great leaps of logic, but you have to be on guard against him cheating all the time, and deal with his fresh new ideas. Elective 2 is like an old man, you just gotta settle down into daily life with him. And Politics…that’s reaching up. Don’t even think about it unless you’ve got some talent behind you. I’m so tired. I’m done studying for today.”
A compilation of students, “This Humanities student is different. I’m like an Emperor trying to balance his harem and his court. English is like a Queen with deep family connections that I have no love with. I still have to give her some dignity and treat her with respect. Elective 1 and 2 are like beloved consorts with no family background. I love them, but I can’t spend too much time on them, or else the Queen’s family is going to criticise me in court. Politics is like a consort with connections with the military. I might not love her, but I have to pretend I do right before every battle…”
“Maths is like drama queen. If I spend even a little less time with him every day, he’ll get mad and jealous and punish me by making me fail all the questions.”
“But at least you can get kisses if you’re actually dating. Studying is like doing BDSM.”
“Sometimes, a paramour will jump out of nowhere and edit all the textbooks and fuck up my life.”
Well now we know why rates of stomach cancer are high.