Consumerist
In China, they add melamine to the pet food to make it look like it has higher protein, make "soy sauce" from human hair, soak fish in ink to make their color better, and feed eels birth control to make them longer and more slender. They also pick up discarded KFC chicken pieces from the garbage and sell them at street vendor booths, Shanghai Daily reports.
He said a cleaner can earn 300 yuan (US$38.86) a month in wages from KFC but selling chickens "rescued" from the trash can bring them up to 6,000 yuan a month."A drumstick is sold at two yuan and a chicken wing is 1.5 yuan," he told the newspaper. "The job is popular because of the 'potential income.'"
Indeed, pure profit. You know what they say, one man's trash is another man's lunch.
Maybe it's time certain products should have to sport a label that says, "contains ingredients from China." — BEN POPKEN
Fuzhou vendors resell discarded KFC chickens [ShanghaiDaily]
(Photo: China Daily)
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