Dont buy eggs from China.

hermitwin

Mountains

Why would you buy eggs from China if you didn't live in China? I don't want my eggs to travel 12,000 miles to get to me. I'd much rather get them from my friend down the road. That way I'm pretty sure I know what the chickens were eating and how they were treated.

SherabDorje

How in the world would we buy eggs from China?

vinlyn

Even when I lived in Thailand, I don't remember eggs being from China. They seemed to be either from Thailand or Singapore.

Cinorjer

I don't understand. Raising chickens and gathering their eggs for market is one of the cheapest things someone can do. Chickens eat just about anything, crap out fertilizer and you don't need much space, if as I suspect the Chinese aren't too worried about happy chickens. I can't believe there's a shortage of eggs in China. So what would be the financial reason to go through the contortions of manufacturing fake eggs? Those fakes must cost more to produce than from a chicken.

hermitwin

The profit margin from fake eggs is 6x that of real eggs.

Dont be too sure that people in other countries
do not resort to this tactics.

Cinorjer

I did some googling, and there's real concern that this is a hoax. For one thing, the warning has been around since 2004 at least, and every single warning or news story since then just references the original story or some friend or acquaintence who swears they know someone who knows someone making money this way. Likewise, the figures for profit are total speculation. A person would have to sit and churn out hundreds of fake eggs a day, and who is going to buy them and the eggs would immediately be discovered to be fake and the person caught. Fake anything depends on people not being able to tell the difference or trace it back to its source.

I cannot find a single official source of information anywhere that anyone has discovered a fake egg being sold at a market in the 6 or 7 years since the original story and video came out many years ago, in China or anywhere. By the way, that egg made in the story has a solid, rubbery white, and is nothing like the watery egg that's supposed to be out there. Because of the scare, some housewife in Malaysia did claim recently to have found fake eggs and they did look exactly like the warning said they would, but government testing proved they were real eggs with real chicken dna, just bad quality ones. I suspect that might have been the problem all along.

This reminds me so much of every bogus scare out there that refuses to die on the internet. I'm sorry, but this is one you really need to be skeptical about.

Mountains

No question about this - it's a hoax. It's been around for several years:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/fake-eggs-china.shtml

hermitwin

Obviously, you have never lived in China.

hermitwin

http://www.thechinaexpat.com/food-quality-safety-in-china/

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-03/16/content_7581236.htm

hermitwin

In US, its called hit n run.
You sell it n you move on elsewhere.

Mountains

Obviously, you have never lived in China.

Indeed. Been there, and seen more than enough to make me know I don't need to go back.

Cinorjer

Oh, it sounds like the kind of strange thing that could happen in a country notorious for poisoned baby food and even lethal dog food due to fake ingredients. That's what keeps this sort of thing going, real or not. It's just...the lack of any reported cases of proven fake eggs over there in over ten years kinda takes the urgency out of the warning, doesn't it?

Their struggle with food safety always makes me wonder at the intelligence of some people here in the US, where our own food inspection agencies are having their budgets and power repeatedly gutted by politicians beholding to the food industries, under the mantra of "too many regulations and too much government!" So now every year we have lethal outbreaks of contaminated food. But that's probably getting too political.

jenzay

Nevermind the eggs, this is more disgusting to me:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/14/china.animal.keyring/index.html

zidangus

Nevermind the eggs, this is more disgusting to me:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/14/china.animal.keyring/index.html

Goodness gracious, this has to be a joke right ? How can anyone with half a brain cell think that this is ok!
I feel so sorry for the poor animals, I feel even sorrier for the people who sell and buy them, they really must have problems to think that this is a good thing to do.
Even more of this sick story here
http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?UID=VL9YBXH71BB


Metta to all sentient beings

jenzay

I wish it was a joke. It makes me feel so sad to think someone can actually think that this kind of cruelty will bring them 'good luck'.

NOTaGangsta

Why specifically hunt for bad stuff on the internet to look at?

zidangus

Why specifically hunt for bad stuff on the internet to look at?

Nobody hunts for bad stuff on the internet, I hope not anyway, stories like this come up in the news, or on websites of animal welfare groups, which I am a member. Sure a person can be ignorant to it all if they want. But that's not going to help the humans or animals in this case that are suffering is it. If you know about it you can at least try to do something about it to try and stop it. The more people that actually care about things like this, the more chance things like this can be stopped. I cannot turn a blind eye on subjects like this, I feel I need to try and do something to help, even if its just signing a petition. Like the one below

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-live-animals-from-being-sold-as-keyrings-in-china

That's my attitude anyway.

With Metta

jenzay

What zidangus said!