How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by slaymaker1907 on Saturday July 27, 2019 @01:26AM (#20540541)

What toxins are these and why are they bad? The liver is quite capable at removing actual toxins and using that terminology makes you sound like a quack.

(2) is a valid point, but (1) should be entirely prevented by the FDA.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by lm28469 on Saturday July 27, 2019 @02:09AM (#20540655)

Many additives and colorants used in US food are banned in Europe for example. I wouldn't go as far as to call them toxins but they're at the very least suspected to be a net negative for the human body.

But again à lot of it is a question of dosage. A bottle of coke a week might not do much, a bottle a day and it's a whole other story.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by nosianu on Saturday July 27, 2019 @04:42AM (#20541072)

Heavy metals and various industrial chemicals for example:

"The most neglected threat to public health in China is toxic soil" -- https://www.economist.com/briefing/2017/06/08/the-most-negle... (2017)

All the things in their air and water (Quote from the article: "Wen Jiabao, a former prime minister, once said that water problems threaten “the very survival of the Chinese nation”.".

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-soil/chin...

- https://www.iisd.org/blog/toxic-soil-china

- https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/10949-C...

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