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[alonewiththemoon]

wtf, China?  Why do your manufacturers think it is appropriate to put poison in exported food and health products?  Are domestic products as tainted?  Where's your Ralph Nader and your Rachel Carson?  Oh, that's right, in jail for being dissidents. 

I just don't understand this on any level.  Why do the "rogue businessmen," as the Chinese call those responsible, think this is a good business practice?  Sure, there's greed, but once your product has started killing people, people will stop buying it and your profits are hurt in the long run.  And then there's the thought process that finds some number of deaths per thousand somehow an acceptable margin of comfort...

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[silas7.livejournal.com]

It could be short sightedness on their part. Maybe they figure no one will catch on to them.

See, this is why I'm not concerned of China becoming the next big superpower. Their business practices are short sighted, they are polluting their own country at a fantastic rate. They will self destruct before they become a real super power.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

It could be short sightedness

If the businessmen actually cared about long-term success, I would agree. I think they're counting on getting rich quick, then getting out, maybe moving somewhere nicer, before the industry collapses. It's not a very foreign way to do business, come to think of it. / cynic