Walmart Fail: China Style

[SFSV650]

They recycle cooking oil from the Sewer in Shanghai.

I have see it with my own eyes when I went there. Some lady in the middle of the road pulled up a man hole cover in traffic and was ladling cooking oil off the top of the sewer runoff.

There has to be an easier way to collect it.. right?

 

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There has to be an easier way to collect it.. right?

They wouldn't dare buy it off the shelves from Walmart, it might have melamine in it.

Between air pollution, water pollution, food contamination... How long before that cesspool of a country reaches the point of no return?

 

[Eldritch]

MagLev and the Fastest High Speed Rail in the world
Clean Subways
Way more traffic moving because of so many motorcycles, scooters, and bikes
Really nice Streets, Airports, Train Stations

The worst thing that happened to China's roads is the private automobile with one driver in it.

I never saw any behavior that was that risky.

LOL, I know, I've seen Chinese Drivers in this Country. It's a nightmare.

They wouldn't dare buy it off the shelves from Walmart, it might have melamine in it.

Between air pollution, water pollution, food contamination... How long before that cesspool of a country reaches the point of no return?

You should have seen how vile our Cities were 100 years ago when we were having OUR industrial revolution. It will clean itself up in time, particularly once the Middle Class there and in India are more established and they start the African Industrial Revolution by sourcing dirty industrial labor to African Nations.

 

[wellbredred]

I still remember the hundreds of pigs floatin' down the river. Randy Newman probably should have written a song.

Not hundreds, last report I read was in the 15K range (I was in Shanghai while this was going on).

 

[bojangle]

You got fox in my donkey!

You got donkey in my fox!

The two great tastes that go great together. Reese's Donkey Butter Cups!

 

[Stormdragon]

The two great tastes that go great together. Reese's Donkey Butter Cups!

Not sure they're using donkey but...

 

[jdhu]

You should have seen how vile our Cities were 100 years ago when we were having OUR industrial revolution. It will clean itself up in time, particularly once the Middle Class there and in India are more established and they start the African Industrial Revolution by sourcing dirty industrial labor to African Nations.

+1. Freakonomics 2 touched on it, here is a link. Apparently, before the first automobiles were invented, horse carcasses and manure were a serious problem.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/when-horses-posed-a-public-health-hazard/?_r=0

Back then, 100,000 to 200,000 horses lived in the city. A typical horse produced from 15 to 30 pounds of manure (with the average output about 22 pounds) and about a quart of urine a day, usually distributed along the course of its route or deposited in the stable, as “The Centrality of the Horse to the Nineteenth-Century American City,” an article by Joel Tarr and Clay McShane, explains.

The manure piles attracted huge numbers of flies, and one journalist writing in Appleton Magazine in 1908, charged that each year 20,000 New Yorkers died from “maladies that fly in the dust, created mainly by horse manure.”

The horses posed another sanitation problem when they dropped dead — sometimes from overwork, sometimes from disease (like horse distemper and other maladies that caused horses to swell overnight). In 1880, New York City removed 15,000 dead horses from its streets. But sometimes a big carcass would simply be left to rot until it had disintegrated enough for someone to pick up the pieces.

 

[Bay Arean]

I read a book, I think its called Garbology or something that pointed out that most of our American cities fed dump garbage to pigs, the last known city doing it until 1972. Kind of an eye opener.

 

[Bay Arean]

From the Chinese "But at least we aren't North Korea" Dept:
"Forget the hangman’s noose, the firing squad or lethal injection: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed his uncle and a handful of the man’s aides by feeding them to a horde of 120 starving dogs, according to a shocking (but unconfirmed) account.

Warning: Even in their unconfirmed state, the details are a bit gruesome."

http://news.yahoo.com/kim-jong-un-fed-his-uncle-to-120-starving-dogs--report-145303810.html

 

[planegray]

From the Chinese "But at least we aren't North Korea" Dept:
"Forget the hangman’s noose, the firing squad or lethal injection: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed his uncle and a handful of the man’s aides by feeding them to a horde of 120 starving dogs, according to a shocking (but unconfirmed) account.

Warning: Even in their unconfirmed state, the details are a bit gruesome.

....................................
http://news.yahoo.com/kim-jong-un-fed-his-uncle-to-120-starving-dogs--report-145303810.html

wow, I had not heard that one. I gotta say, I have no problem believing it.

 

[jdhu]

From the Chinese "But at least we aren't North Korea" Dept:

IF true, I mean, China just does not compare. WTF.

I think it's been confirmed, but didn't they utilize a mass execution by burning in some stadium several years ago?

 

[Enchanter]

SNIPPED

Please stop posting the entire content of copyright protected articles and material. A few lines, and the associated link is fine.

Thanks.

 

[Bay Arean]

Please stop posting the entire content of copyright protected articles and material. A few lines, and the associated link is fine.

Thanks.

I didn't post entire story, left off last paragraph. I usually don't post full story. I have been chewed out for only posting links for people who want to read it here. Criminy.

 

[Eldritch]

IF true, I mean, China just does not compare. WTF.

I think it's been confirmed, but didn't they utilize a mass execution by burning in some stadium several years ago?

No act of man in the History of the earth has killed more people than Communism.

 

[Ogier le Danois]

+1. Freakonomics 2 touched on it, here is a link. Apparently, before the first automobiles were invented, horse carcasses and manure were a serious problem.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/when-horses-posed-a-public-health-hazard/?_r=0

Back then, 100,000 to 200,000 horses lived in the city. A typical horse produced from 15 to 30 pounds of manure (with the average output about 22 pounds) and about a quart of urine a day, usually distributed along the course of its route or deposited in the stable, as “The Centrality of the Horse to the Nineteenth-Century American City,” an article by Joel Tarr and Clay McShane, explains.

The manure piles attracted huge numbers of flies, and one journalist writing in Appleton Magazine in 1908, charged that each year 20,000 New Yorkers died from “maladies that fly in the dust, created mainly by horse manure.”

The horses posed another sanitation problem when they dropped dead — sometimes from overwork, sometimes from disease (like horse distemper and other maladies that caused horses to swell overnight). In 1880, New York City removed 15,000 dead horses from its streets. But sometimes a big carcass would simply be left to rot until it had disintegrated enough for someone to pick up the pieces.

One of the ways Irish immigrants were able to make money was manure collection (sold to farmers on Long Island) and renting of pigs for refuse clean up.

Can't recall the histor book but it spent about 50 pages going over the process in detail.

 

[jdhu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ably-didnt-feed-his-uncle-to-120-hungry-dogs/

Skepticism about the 120 dogs execution.

 

[jdhu]

I didn't post entire story, left off last paragraph. I usually don't post full story. I have been chewed out for only posting links for people who want to read it here. Criminy.

I think mods are just being understandably cautious. I usually paste a few snippets that are important/relevant, "fair use" and all that.

 

[Bay Arean]

I think mods are just being understandably cautious. I usually paste a few snippets that are important/relevant, "fair use" and all that.

I thot if you put the link in, you are acknowledging copyright. But I'll try the first two paragraph approach until somebody complains.

PS. The article repeatedly pointed out that story was unconfirmed (about dogs rather than bullets, because I remember reading he was shot). But the dude is like something out of Austin Powers. I do remember one of Saddam's sons was supposedly into feeding humans into a giant shredder, but never found out if that was true or not.

 

[jdhu]

I thot if you put the link in, you are acknowledging copyright. But I'll try the first two paragraph approach until somebody complains.

PS. The article repeatedly pointed out that story was unconfirmed (about dogs rather than bullets, because I remember reading he was shot). But the dude is like something out of Austin Powers. I do remember one of Saddam's sons was supposedly into feeding humans into a giant shredder, but never found out if that was true or not.

I had heard about Saddam's sons throwing babies against walls, etc. Who knows...

Anyway, link doesn't do anything as far as copyright law. Fair use test:

The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes

The nature of the copyrighted work

The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole

The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work

 

[asthmodeus]

predatory mammals and birds should not be eaten. it's against the code.