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The New Emperors of China

The new emperors are eating even better than the old ones did. What purpose did the Maoist revolution serve, other than to worsen the situation of the Chinese people? Their entire country has been polluted with lethal poisons.

Amid Milk Scare, China's Elite Get Special Food 
by Anita Chang
Associated Press
25 September 2008

In China, the State Council Central Government Offices Special Food Supply Center provides hundreds of top political leaders, their families and retired cadres with goods from farms which follow strict guidelines: hormone-free beef from Inner Mongolia, organic tea from Tibet and rice watered by melted mountain snow from Mt. Changbai, which straddles the China-North Korean border. The foods are organic, not genetically modified and meet international food standards, said a manager in the center's product department. The center scours the country for particularly famous products. Goods deemed to meet the highest standards are stamped with the label "Nation A," which stands for "top end, irreplaceable, the best," according to the Web site, where much information has recently been deleted.

"We all know that average production facilities use large quantities of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Antibiotics and hormones are commonly used in raising livestock and poultry. Farmed aquatic products are contaminated by various kinds of water pollution," the center's director, Zhu Yonglan, said in a speech. "It goes without saying that these are harmful when consumed by humans," he informed executives at supplier Shandong Ke'er Biological Medical Technology Development Co., which posted it on its Web site earlier this year.

Many Chinese don't know what to buy; knowing that their leaders do not face these problems has made some people angry.

They have turned to one company not named in any recalls - Sanyuan Foods Ltd. It proudly advertises that its milk is used for state banquets at the Great Hall of the People.

(Associated Press writer Chi-Chi Zhang and researchers Zhao Liang and Bonnie Cao contributed to this report)

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