Exploding Watermelons, Latest Food Scandal in China

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Chinese consumers have been hit by yet another food safety scandal. This time, it's exploding watermelons. Farmers in eastern Jiangsu province say they used a chemical to make the watermelons grow faster, so they could make more money. Now they have to deal with huge losses because their crops have been ruined.

A farmer, Liu Mingsuo was hoping to cash in on his watermelon farm this year. But now he's counting his losses after his watermelon crops began exploding on the ground.

Liu only started growing watermelons this year. He says a local agricultural expert advised him to spray his crops with a type of chemical. It's supposed to make the melons grow bigger and taste sweeter. But in a bizarre twist, the watermelons began bursting open, well before they were ripe. In just one morning, Liu had to throw out more than 11,000 pounds of his crops.

Farmers nearby are also finding their watermelons exploding. Even those with crops that seem fine are having difficulty selling them, because fruit markets fear they could explode later.

This is the latest case of Chinese food producers trying to make a quick buck by artificially boosting their products. Some netizens say they're glad the watermelons exploded on the farms because now the chemicals won't reach their mouths.

The Chinese regime has allowed wider media coverage of food scandals recently. It comes after growing public anger over a series of toxic or dangerous foods that have made their way to consumers.

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[DBKK]

@shoecat10 you probably bought food from china this week without even realizing

[shoecat10]

I never buy any food from China - even before all of the problems that have surfaced over the past few years - i wouldn't buy food products, because any water found in toys was highly contaminated with pathogens etc - and that was over 22yrs ago - you need water to grow food or to farm and process fish

[equals3princess]

Epic Face @ 0:36

[Leon14000]

Trip Would Love this!

[samquan123]

what the hell, do not added any chemical in to food or fruits. dumb ass chinese.

[521i]

@YoshiHDify lucky I didnt ate these made in china vegetables

[YoshiHDify]

@521i Sorry but its the truth.

[521i]

@YoshiHDify

....(wail)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[57worldwide]

@YoshiHDify Did you hear the first sentence, or do I have to spell it out for you?

'Chinese consumers have been it with another food safety scandal.'

Do you think their export produce wouldn't have safety checks? I'm from New Zealand. I worked in a kiwifruit and avocado packhouse, and on an orchard. The best produce goes to international market. The lower quality produce goes to the local market. Chemicals get sprayed onto kiwifruit vines and injected into avocado trees. Did you know this?

[YoshiHDify]

@57worldwide Idiot! I wasn't criticizing the Chinese farmers. I was proving a point of why they do stuff like putting chemicals in fruit and poisonous toys and such and that It was because of the demand from the US and Countries like it. US wants china to make cheap stuff , china goes fine but quality is bad, US goes just give us cheap and we buy. 2 Weeks later thousands end in Hospital.... Cause - The demand for CHEAP LABOR. Period.