Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: detectives untangling the global supply chain

Re:Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: detectives untangling ... by BugsJustFindMe on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:43PM (#28645587)

> But China imprisoning populations solely for having a different religion and culture is worse than America imprisoning people for (at least mostly) real criminal convictions.

My culture says that growing and smoking cannabis is good. The US disagrees and makes that nonviolent crime a felony. The Uyghur culture says that worshipping Allah is good. China disagrees and makes that nonviolent crime a felony.

What's the difference, exactly? What makes one criminal conviction "real" and the other not?

Our incarceration system is no less culture-bound when we have half a million people imprisoned (1 in 5 prisoners) for nonviolent drug crimes.

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Re:Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: detectives untangling ... by nsxwolf on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:56PM (#28645728)

You're asking "how should we decide what is moral or criminal", which is just a bit smaller a question than "what is the meaning of life?"

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Re:Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: detectives untangling ... by BugsJustFindMe on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:59PM (#28645776)

I'm actually saying that it's derisible to say that our incarceration system is less culture-bound when we have half a million people imprisoned (1 in 5 prisoners) for nonviolent drug crimes.

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