Reply #37: If it is from China, it was likely a competitor that did it [View All]

[NewJeffCT]

Since all of my in-laws are in China, I tend to follow news stories about China a lot more closely than most here on DU.

Incidents of poisoning a competitor's food is not a rare occurence in China. Most of the stories I've seen through the years involve two competing restaurants with somebody from one restaurant using poison to sick/kill the patrons of another restaurant in hopes that it will destroy their business. But, it's not hard to envision something happening between rival food factories as well.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/09/15/china.poisoning/index.html

That's one incident that I remember because I was in Nanjing in September of 2004.

The big problem with the pet food is that it got through the limited safety screenings in China, and through any sort of screenings here in the US as well.