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Two-Thirds Of Chinese Consumers No Longer Trust Western Fast-Food As "Meat Scandal" Spreads Across Asia
As if the Chinese meat scandal was not a big enough concern for Western fast-food firms, The WSJ reports that the crisis is spreading across Asia as Yum Brands and McDonalds sever links with US-owned Shanghai Husi Food Company, which is accused of selling expired beef and chicken, pulling supplies of chicken from restaurants in Japan. Perhaps even more worrisome for American fast-food companies who have expanded aggressively and over-hyped the growth opportunities in China, a second Sina survey started yesterday, featuring 25,000 respondents, found 77% believed the restaurant brands affected had been aware of Husi’s faulty practices, while 69% said they would no longer dine at the restaurants run by the Western companies.
More companies are cutting ties to a U.S.-owned Chinese food supplier over worries that they may have served expired meat to their customers, as they moved to shore up their reputations in a market known for food-safety problems.
The issue, which on Monday prompted KFC owner Yum Brands and McDonald's China arm to drop the China-based food supplier, on Tuesday spread to Japan. McDonald's on Tuesday said its outlets there cut ties with Shanghai Husi Food Co., an arm of OSI Group Inc. of Aurora, Ill. Shanghai Husi has been accused in Chinese media reports of selling meat products beyond their shelf life.
McDonald's said it pulled chicken nuggets supplied by the company, affecting 10% of its Japanese stores, a move that will create a short-term nugget shortage until new orders arrive from a supplier in Thailand.
"In this case we do feel that we were a bit deceived relative to one of these plants," said McDonald's CEO Don Thompson, speaking on the company's earnings conference call on Tuesday.
McDonald's, which has more than 2,000 outlets in China, is working with Chinese authorities to investigate, a company spokeswoman said. "It appears from the initial news report that these alleged mis-practices have been hidden from McDonald's," she said.
OSI representatives in China didn't respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. On Monday the company said it believed the Chinese media reports depicted an isolated incident, but said it takes full responsibility and would act accordingly.
In China, Starbucks, Burger King, and the 7-Eleven convenience store chain and others on Tuesday also said they cut ties with Shanghai Husi.
Other food companies that have sourced their meat from Husi include the Swedish furniture retailer, Ikea, and the Chinese fast-food chain, Dicos.
But it appears the damage is done...
A Sina survey started yesterday, featuring 25,000 respondents, found 77% believed the restaurant brands affected had been aware of Husi’s faulty practices, while 69% said they would no longer dine at the restaurants run by the Western companies.
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A crisis in confidence in China’s food industry emerged after melamine was found in domestically produced baby formula in 2008. That scandal left 300,000 babies sick and resulted in six premature deaths.
Other stories including fake eggs, diseased pork, recycled oil, mislabelled meat have only led to further calls for industry reform.
With new food scandals arising every few months on the mainland, Western fast-food brands are generally seen as being more trustworthy than local restaurants.
However, this trust may have been badly affected by this new scandal surrounding Husi.
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On the bright side, all these firms will have an alternate scapegoat for weak earnings other than the weather...
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When I think of the McDonalds chain, I usually don't associate the word "food" with it.
i blame the fed. there are massive repercussions for printing money.
WOW, It Takes A LOT To Gross-OUT The Chinese, But They Did It!!!
So who will be the first to blame "the Jews"?
How Fast Food Providers Beat Inflation - Add Wood Pulp To Burgers
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/how-fast-food-providers-beat-inflation-add-wood-pulp-burgers
The wood pulp would only improve those things.
don't you worry ronald mcdonald... as long as americans have two dollars in their pockets, they will grovel to ingest your soylent brown/wood pulp/gmo goodness, because they know that obamacare will fix them all up when they get tumors growing out every orafice on their bodies...
sir...that rat (cat, frog, dog, lizard, beetle) is it organic?
At least here in America, we'll always have that healthy staple; hot dogs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzUm7UEEIY
Beijing airport. Kenny Roger's Chicken. Creepy.
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/mattwagers/3715033043/
Meanwhile in Obamastan (Michigan), jack-booted federales raid organic farm and force farmers to dump 248 gallons of whole milk and 1200 eggs. For the children. http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/michigan-dept-of-agri-forces-farmer-to-d...
fukin sickening
Fuk-u brought plutonium into the food chain and nowHu-si introduced sick meat?
Asia (Asians) is fuk-hu (same chinese character, meaning fortune or luck).
Fortune, luck ?
Fucked !
Mmmmm....woodpulp. *drool*
I order mine with extra woodpulp.
As an old carpenter, when I ingest wood pulp, I prefer oak sawdust.
Cutting fresh pine...I love that smell...better than a new car smell
When you write that, sport, you fan the flames of the issue. You're not too bright; are you?
I think it was the guy that blamed Greenspan/Bernanke/Yellen for adopting inflationary policies, or it might have been the guy that blamed Strauss neo-conservative attitudes to freemarkets and liberal regulation.
I think it was the guy that blamed Greenspan/Bernanke/Yellen for adopting inflationary policies, or it might have been the guy that blamed Strauss neo-conservative attitudes to freemarkets and liberal regulation.
I think it was the guy that blamed Greenspan/Bernanke/Yellen for adopting inflationary policies, or it might have been the guy that blamed Strauss neo-conservative attitudes to freemarkets and liberal regulation.
You, apparently
Obsess much??
Bad actors beget more bad actors....
I wish Americans would do the same!!
billions and billions served......a heart attack, diabieties, high blood pressure, and lets not forget OBESITY
You know what you get when you eat too much?
Diabeetus.
pods
It is said that Chinese diners will eat anything with four legs (except a table) and anything that flies (except an airplane).
.
Capitalism and market economy logic, for all its benefits, says that if I can put a turd on a plate, charge $5 and convince you it's dinner, then that's just good business.
Do you want fries with it ?
Do you want flies with it?
FIFY
Note: Works on two levels. ;)
I don't think flies would find McD " food" appetizing. Stick one outside next to one you made at home and do some time lapse photography. That crap Scares even the mold away.
Miffed;-)
LOL!
Oh Well, Back To Cat Chow...
Stay away from fast food.
I associate $8/hour jobs, plus HR guidance on how to apply for government assistance programs to supplement that "living wage".
I don't think they are signatory to the Geneva Convention, so no worries.
China as signed and ratified three out of the five protocols of the Geneva Convention
in contrast, the US has signed four of them... but only ratified two
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Geneva_Conventions
Why dine anywhere other than the well valued Burrito stock that is CMG. $650 stock price. Can you say 68x Earinings. BTFDATH
Well I've been in Hong Kong for the last three days and what's reported on ZH doesn't match the crowds I've seen at every McDonalds (and there are many here). Maybe the folks here didn't get the memo yet.
30% remainder stills means a whole bunch of Chinese.
That or people simply don't care any longer. With the air pollution in China being what it is, it's easy to become jaded over such issues.
Air you can cut with a butter knife, food not so much.
What people say they are going to do, and what they actually do has always been two different things. How many millions of pounds of beef recalls have we seen here in the U.S? That hasn't stopped Joe sixpack from taking a big old bite of some sawdust infested pink slime.
It's Whopper Wednesday today. I'm eating a Whopper. Yum.
Every week I swear off McDonalds....
..MacDonalds is a happy place... a clean and happy place.. a snap snap snappy place..
my how the times have changed.
Seems nobody is seeing the upside. Food Prices in US will drop as our supermarkets are flooded with this crap.
Our supermarkets are already flooded with this crap (from GMO-ed frankenveggies to hormone-laced vat grown shmeat), shrinking package sizes, and prices are still up. "Real" food now costs x5 as much as 10 years ago.
When we had the horsemeat scandal in the UK, people said they was going to boycott all the big supermarkets. 2 weeks later everything was back to 'normal'.
The sheeple don't give a fuck.
Dis no real Dog!!!
So this CHINESE food processing company is AMERICAN-owned, huh? Really?
I would LOVE to see who the actual owners are (no doubt cloaked behind a Delaware-incorporated shell company in the US and/or multiple shell companies worldwide). I SERIOUSLY doubt there's a lot of round-eyes involved in this one.
Dunno the owners' real names, but Somethingstien and Whozitsberg are probably involved.
I'm thinking more along the lines of Wong, Lo and Fuk. As in Sum Ting Wong, We To Lo and Ho Li Fuk.
This is Chink-on-Chink violence going on here. Guarantee it.
American companies can't just stroll into China and buy up a Chinese company. Not without sanction from the Government a couple big bags full of money and some "technology transfer".
Probably kickbacks to ensure the products of this company don't get dropped down into the "animal food" part of the food chain and lose more $$.
Hell, fast food doesn't rot as it is. Not sure why they are so pissed.
Not like they are putting gutter oil into pharmaceuticals?
Oh wait.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/09/gutter-oil-7-aca-antibiotic-in...
pods
So Chinese people will no longer eat "western" food that is supplied by a CHINESE supplier?
ROFLMAO.
pods
Count on you to note the irony, pods!
U.S.-owned Chinese food supplier
pods, wait a moment. when McDonalds opens a "restaurant", it's done under the implied promise of having the same standards as everywhere else in the world
Asians still have some trust in Western labels. well, it's of course decreasing standards and decreasing trust. mix some politics to it...
When dealing with China you cannot assume anything.
There is one cat buried under my deck that is proof of that.
pods
Send in Ronald McDonald and Hamburgler!
this will just increase lobbying pressure on the Transatlantic Trade and Invesment Pact diplo-teams to allow more questionable food imports into the EU
I already see myself masked as a Scottish Highlander and throwing GMO-Food containers in the waters of Rotterdam harbour
"If it's not Scottish, it's crap!"
did any of them trust before that? what are ya'll crazy? china has a few public health problems of their own. check out ''GUTTER OIL'' - disgusting!!
http://youtu.be/zrv78nG9R04
Ask then if they would rather have their meat served with a side of Melamine, like Chinese companies did.
yes...cause the food that is grown in China is safe for consumption...if you like your metals heavy. Also, all rice from Fukashima is safe for consumption, as well as all seafood from the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico.
Wasn't some young girl beaten to death at a McDonald's recently by a religious cult in China? McDs has some bad luck. Management needs tighter control and better security looks like at their stores.
China? This is the same country
that puts CRAP and toxins in their simplest export products?
Like drywall? Babby food? Cat food?
Nah nah ,de nah nah,defence.
Please get back in your playpen.
Fast food= Agenda 21
oh, please. Agenda 21 is an international label for a purely internal American policy fight. it starts with the fact that it's just a bunch of reccomendations
Absolutely false. Agenda 21 has fingerprints all over the world. From high density planned communties in the US to large swaths of land protected by public-private parterships throughout the world to structuring international agreements.
http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/1716A21_press_sum...
pods
And the Chinese people trust 'Chinese owned restaurants' instead? Don't worry US consumer - the same fate awaits you at your own favorite 'Western owned restaurant' as food prices climb.
Da Chinese be a waking up. Years back the top selling book there was Currency Wars, not the Rickards one but one like a Chinese version of Creature from Jekyl Island.
The fast food satanic entities got the Chinese believing that their products were a `luxury' as they were from the West. Kentucky Fried Chicken was selling for as much or more than in the USSA even though the salaries were a fraction.
Me thinks the jig is up.
I won't dine at restaurants run by western companies either. And, I won't buy Chinese junk.
I have been saying this for years. Whoever eats fast food deserves whatever they get... FUC fast food.
Wait till Chinese consumers find out that Coca Cola can dissolve Uranium (and other heavy metals) out of mine tailings.
Yum, indeed.
http://panaceachronicles.com/2014/07/21/coca-cola-dissolves-uranium-out-of-solid-rock/
The concentrated syrup is great at disolving blood off of roadways.
State troopers in Texas carry Coke for just that purpose. Also great for cleaning up rat blood off a floor after the trap has done its work.
I would rather eat at a McDonalds in China than some street restaurant...some of the crap they eat is digusting...
Ah yes - "Howard Johnson's"*.
* street vendors, Bangkok, 1971
Not only the food they distrust!
This from the folks who put toxic industrial chemicals in kids' toys!
This from a culture where spitting in the corner is the national pasttime.
And they don't trust McYogaMatNuggets.
Ho Lee Fuk.
Well,
What did you expect company policy to be once the "ME" Generation took over?
This generation pioneered, "Live in the moment, let tomorrow be tomorrow."
So, at the moment it is always easier to cheat and run away with the loot.
And tomorrow?
When you do that kind of thing there is no tomorrow.
Did you think it would be any different when they took over government?
Meat? I thought it was soy products and sawdust. I guess they're not lovin' it.
Cant' Obama sign an Executive Order to FORCE Chinese to eat McNuggets ? - not all the time but at least once / week.
Either that or force pension funds to buy YUM.
win win win win win
You deserve everything you get if you eat that filth. I gave up eating McSoylent as a young'un. I always needed a shit about 20 min after eating it. Something told me that wasn't a great sign....
At least it was actually meat.
Good, I don't trust it either. Especially if it's from China.
Don't eat this shit chicoms. You might turn into Americans.
Chinese don't follow 3 second rule? IF you drop it and pick it up w/in 3 seconds you can eat it.
You notice they never find these shenanigans going on with food suppliers for Chinese based resteraunts.
Maybe the Chinese are racists.
Most fast food doesn't rot anyway. Microbes are smarter than most people.
Fucking Bush! Damn that pisses me off! /s
Prescott?
Chinese consumers may not trust "western" fast food outlets, but they trust the local ones even less.
Everyone should remember that the Chinese Government is engaged in a low-intensity but continuous propoganda war against the West, and particularly, western "influence" over its population. For the Chinese government, that includes "fast food" which is a symbol of the West.
TONIGHT!!! WE DINE IN MCDONALDS!!!
TONIGHT!!! IS WHERE WE DIE!!
Got shade?
Makes sense.
Floating dead pigs in the river are a much finer dining experience.
Don't worry it's Not Economic Warfare... ( sarc off )
there is a saying in China if it has 4 legs they will eat it.. yeah and this is coming from people who poisoned their own babies and scrape cooking oil out of the sewers
I've heard said as if it moves eat it.
Yeah no economic warfare going on here especially considering their high standards in general concerning food and food safety.
It all has its roots in Mao's Great Leap Forward (even if it kills you).
China's Gutter Oil Scandal: 1/10 Of China's Cooking Oil May Be Recycled From Garbage
http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-gutter-oil-scandal-110-chinas-cooking-oil-...
wow 1/10th... ? Another phony Chinese Statistic, who would have thunk...
I never give my dogs any treats made from China. Seems like lots of dogs have died eating stuff from there over the last few years.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1DVCC_enUS368...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/23/us-china-food-idUSKBN0FS001201...
Yuck Unsanitary Meat
I usually love eating their original recipe chicken thighs. But the last 2 times I ate there(2 different restaurants), the chicken was really bad. The thighs were very small and seemed to be cooked twice. Tough skin and tasted old. Not good at all. My local Giant Food sells whole roasted chickens for $5 on Fridays. That's a really good deal. Sams Club does too.
Gives the phrase "Eat shit & die" new meaning... how do you say that in Chinese? What is the glyph?
I think it's just a pile of steaming shit.
Chinese Citizenry demonizing 'Western' fast food companies for selling the Chinese Citizenry their own locally produced offal is somewhat amusing.
Crapping on the plates at your own family table and then blaming foreigners for the shit sandwiches that YOU made and that YOU are serving only shows how irresponsible and corrupt YOU are.
... i think it was during the chinese olympics when i saw a tv report of some people in china making fake eggs ... it looked and felt exactly like a real egg ... only way you can tell it was a fake is by cracking it open and see yellow and white liquid fall out ... also chinese use industrial grease mahsed up with card-board to create fake port, etc etc ...
Blame Western food companies. Ignore how filthy most Chinese restaurants are...using GUTTER OIL for cooking. No shit. Oh wait, yeah. Shit.
You know the food is bad when the Chinese won't eat it. They will eat anything.
i think that's a bad thing when China calls the US out on food safety.
1) Lack of trust in US over food and "food" from China
2) Lack of trust in China over "food" sold by US brand
3) if actions speak as loud as words, the growing rift is but another sign of things getting rockin' and shakin'.
Hold on.
Expired meat? Sh*t that's the least you gotta worry about. How about worrying a rat and other rodent meat, and outright garbage and toxic waste mixed into the "meat" products?
You mean explosive diarrhea isn't appealing to overseas customers either?
What kind of sick bastard would eat pieces of dead animals?
What kind of species-ism ideology would only condon eating things not of your kingdom, phylum, class or order - things that cannot even retreat or run away?
Coward.
In the US we know most of it is already and will continue to be tainted. Where is that Tuna from you ate last night? The Pacific? No, the Gulf? Oh, here in Miami they call that the Miami area.
This is a standard Chinese response. Lesser from other Asian or Confucian cultures.
You see, it''s the fault of THE WEST (which in China means ''everyone not us"") not that a CHINESE factory did this.
The Chinese are NEVER wrong. They are ALWAYS victims. They AlWAYS blame outsiders.
What you think a world run by these people will look like, I leave up to the individual reader...
They won't stop dining at CHINESE restaurants that serve dog for beef...nope...
Well, Ming Chow, newsflash!!,I would not eat ANYTHING you people export,as usually it's poison,this is the pot calling the kettle BLACK.
If the Administration had any brains, they would drive away business from Russian firms by accusing the producers of poor quality.
Too bad the White House doesn't believe in the free market.
american fast food is toxic crap without redeeming value.....even if the food was legitimate it would be toxic....but the lard infested crap they sell is full of toxins, carcinogens, and sawdust!! it is gmo crap from stem to stern....
i would outlaw mcdonalds, burger kings, kfc, and all of the other merchants of death.
Shanghai Husi Food Company...also known as Shit Hits (the) Fan Company
While we're on another food scandal, here are some refreshments about the past horse meat scandals.
Think many already forgot the scandals and the lingering issues of that industry.
Does anyone think the potential problems ever get away???
yet hopefully the links still stay ;)
U.K. 'Horseburger' Scandal: Did the Meat Originate in the U.S.? | Maryn McKenna | Wired Science | Wired.com (2013-01-16)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/horse-meat-scandal/
Food Trade Too Complex to Track Food Safety | Maryn McKenna | Wired.com (2012-06-04)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/food-trade-complex/
The data-dense graphic above may be too reduced to read (here’s the really big version), but its intricacy masks a simple and fairly dire message: The global trade in food has become so complex that we have almost lost the ability to trace the path of any food sold into the network. And, as a result, we are also about to lose the ability to track any contaminated food, or any product causing foodborne illness.
The graphic, and warning, come from a paper published last week in PLoS ONE by researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, Hungary and Romania. The group used United Nations food-trade data — along with some math that I do not pretend to understand — to describe an “international agro-food trade network” (IFTN) with seven countries at its center, but a dense web of connections with many others. Each of the seven countries, they find, trades with more than 77 percent of all the 207 countries on which the UN gathers information.
As a result, they say: “The IFTN has become a densely interwoven complex network, creating a perfect platform to spread potential contaminants with practically untraceable origins.”
Some background facts: The current trade in food is worth $1.06 trillion, up from $438 billion just 10 years earlier. Food trade, in fact, has been growing faster than food production: Components made multiple trips through the system, becoming ingredients in processed foods that are assembled out of products from all over the globe.
British Author Susanna Forrest on the Horsemeat Scandal in Europe - SPIEGEL ONLINE (2013-02-18)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-author-susanna-forres...
Horse meat burger scandal - News, views, gossip, pictures, video - Mirror Online
http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/horse%20meat%20burger%20scandal
Is horse in jelly and sandwiches? Food watchdogs the FSA widen their testing programme - Mirror Online
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horse-jelly-sandwiches-food-watchdo...
M. Wells Dinette horse meat scandal: Why horse meat is more dangerous than you think. - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/food/2012/10/m_wells_di...
Consider the supply chain. In 2011, almost 140,000 horses from the United States were sent to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico. (The last American horse slaughterhouse closed in 2007.) Many of the horses that landed in these across-the-border abattoirs were thoroughbreds from the U.S. horse racing industry. Others came from prolific quarter horse breeders, who send horses into racing, ranching, and rodeos. Racing in particular is a controversial business marked by overbreeding, early racehorse retirement, and EXTENSIVE DRUG USE. (The New York Times has laid bare the harrowing evidence this year in an excellent series called “Breakdown: Death and Disarray at America’s Racetracks.”) Indeed, many racehorses essentially become PHARMACEUTICAL DUMPING GROUNDS throughout their artificially stimulated, sedated, and numbed lives. The chemicals that course through the blood and lodge in the flesh of many thoroughbreds and quarter horses might ease their pain and treat their diseases, but they also make these animals distinctly unfit for a GoogaMooga sandwich.
Racing horses in the U.S. are given performance-enhancing drugs that would never be used in food animals, and those drugs — especially Phenylbutazone, known as PBZ or 'bute' — are toxic for humans.