After March 15, the "sequelae" of sauerkraut in the pit appeared, affecting 130,000 people

The "sequelae" of sauerkraut in the pit that was exposed by 3.15 appeared.

According to media reports, 12 days after the "Tukeng Sauerkraut" incident, in Huarong County, the origin of the "Tukeng Sauerkraut" was.

As a result, 130,000 vegetable farmers have lost their livelihoods.

A large number of mustard greens are unsalable, with losses of more than one million yuan.

Huarong County is the largest mustard growing area in China, and 85% of the raw materials for sauerkraut come from here.

The local mustard industry employs more than 130,000 people.

Some people are contracted to grow mustard greens, some people are doing odd jobs to help people harvest, and some people are specially guarding the gates of the county processing plant and loading cars for the bosses.

At present, it is the shipment period of sauerkraut, and according to the market in 2017, bosses across the country will send cars to buy sauerkraut.

In the end, it brought an economic volume of 4.3 billion yuan to the county.

But with the exposure of 3.15, it all pressed the pause button.

Processing companies can still stop working, but farmers can't get out of the pit.

In villages near the flag-planting vegetable industry, slices of mustard greens are waiting to be "pickled in the pit."

This method of pitting was invented in 1990 by a farmer in the town of Flag Planting.

Replacing jars with earth pits and mulch film has greatly saved costs and has been emulated by many vegetable farmers.

Of course, it has now been upgraded, replacing the mulch film with an edible grade film.

But food experts mentioned that this method works, that is, the environment and microorganisms cannot be controlled.

But at that time, no one ever considered the safety hazards, and there was no relevant department to test.

Now, before and after the Qingming Dynasty, no one cares.

"Farming is like this, watching the sky and eating."

Affected by the season, farmers must dispose of the remaining mustard greens within two days and then free up the land to grow other crops.

"Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to sell it when the time comes?"

"You can't let the vegetables rot in the field, can you?"

"Didn't you consider selling fresh mustard directly?"

"Can't sell, no one wants it."

Pit pickling is still a stopgap measure at the moment.

Another farmer who has been a vegetable farmer for decades shares the same view.

Now I don't know where to store it, or pickle it first and wait for the transfer.

Regarding the issues mentioned in 3.15, he said that there were cases of workers stepping barefoot on sauerkraut, but not many.

Moreover, neither barefoot nor rain boots affect hygiene.

"Pickles are used to kill all bacteria with high salinity, and there was a saying in the past that salt eliminates all poisons." Not to mention that the dish is taken back to wash many times. ”

It is worth mentioning that when it comes to emotional places, the vegetable farmer also showed his mobile phone in front of reporters.

It was a number that was stored as "Guangdong boss", dialed out on the spot, and there was no echo.

But it can be guessed that this "Guangdong boss" should be the reporter who secretly visited.

Because the scene of him talking to the "boss" appeared at the CCTV 3.15 party.

I don't know how he felt when he learned the truth later.

But the comments section is already noisy.

There are sympathetic vegetable farmers, saying:

Sauerkraut is unhygienic, from a legal point of view is not right, but if you don't buy it, there will never be sauerkraut, and if this vegetable farmer can't make sauerkraut, he will die.

For a large agricultural county in the central and western regions such as Huarong County, it is not easy to cultivate a pillar industry with national competitiveness.

There are also scoffs at this: it is an individual bad behavior, there is no need to pull the grand empathy of the development of the entire industry.

Making so much money every year, is it hard to buy some jars? At first, the conditions were not good for consumers to understand, and they all did so big and still did so, who is to blame?

Sympathy for 130,000 vegetable farmers, who will sympathize with the 1.3 billion consumers?

Because mustard greens are not selling, such disputes are expected to continue for a long time.

This scene is very similar to the "melamine" case of that year.

Like pit sauerkraut, melamine is a massive pollution event that affects the entire Chinese dairy industry.

In addition to Sanlu, who was later sentenced to capital punishment, other domestic brands, such as Mengniu and Yili, were affected.

Of course, the fall of the brand will eventually be reflected on the dairy farmer.

So in those years, retail dairy farmers almost lost their way of life.

In that case, the Inner Mongolia Business Press published an article titled "Ai Meng Niu, Ai Yili".

To the effect: please don't be angry, love is the greatest accountability for them.

Signed as the head of seven local enterprises in Inner Mongolia.

In the article, it is written that Yili and Mengniu are wrong, and from a legal point of view, they deserve to be wrong, but sin does not lead to death.

Logically, they cannot die, because if they fall, they will affect millions of dairy farmers.

It will make the situation of dairy cows worse than death, let the rural economy be fragmented, and leave tens of thousands of relatives unemployed, friends displaced, and families helpless.

At the end of the article, it also appealed that Yili and Mengniu may have hurt the hearts of the people of the whole country, but they must not lose the love of the people.

To believe in them is like believing in our own children.

Looking at the voices of the flag planting vegetable industry and the Huarong vegetable farmers, they are really exactly the same.

Now for the questioning of public opinion, some local people also said:

They (the flag planting company) have contributed to our flag planters and fed a lot of workers...

This is the cellar of the northern pickles, how can it be called a pit in our country?

It seems that all doubts about the disadvantages of sauerkraut in the pit are regarded as opposing local developments and discrediting Chinese farmers.

But the crux of the matter is not sauerkraut at all, but the people.

What we are against is not the old altar of the earth pit, but the barefoot cigarette butt.

What is opposed is not traditional techniques, but serious double standards.

According to 3.15, the export of sauerkraut packets, because it does not meet the standard, will be fined 100,000, so it is standardized pickled.

The domestic sauerkraut buns are only fined a few thousand pieces if they do not meet the standards, so they are made in earth pits.

And after the pit sauerkraut is purchased, it does not need any testing, directly adds 2-10 times the preservative, and then encapsulates and markets.

On the other hand, reporters visited the local area and found that although most of the local vegetable farmers claimed to feel aggrieved.

We farmers are all pickled vegetables like this, and it is someone else who has done a bad thing.

I don't know what to do but do.

Huarong's 100,000-person industry, which has been cultivated for more than 30 years, collapsed overnight.

But the fact is that a work report of huarong county vegetable industry service center mentioned:

Since 2018, a total of 1,000 centralized pickling ponds have been built in the county.

In order to achieve all centralized pickling, it is also necessary to build 7,000 centralized pickling ponds.

However, it is difficult to implement construction funds and land use indicators, and farmers have no enthusiasm for self-construction.

It can be seen that Huarong has thought of replacing the scattered earth pits with centralized pickling ponds.

It's just that farmers and businesses feel the cost is too high to be implemented.

Anyway, the car does not fall just push, can sell a pit is a pit.

Moreover, pickles are pickled vegetables, and if eaten, locals will generally choose a pack of 258 grams of sauerkraut for 20 yuan.

According to the reporter's understanding, this kind of sauerkraut, which is more expensive than pork, is specially exported.

Huarong is known locally as "sesame mustard", the leaves are red, and the seeds are also from abroad.

To make this sauerkraut, you can't use a pit or a jar.

"A cement pool with a cost of 300,000 yuan, people don't step on it, it's all automation."

Before shipment, it is necessary to use mechanical cleaning 4 times, then manual cleaning 4 times, and finally manual cleaning of stems and leaves 4 times.

Compared with the extensive sauerkraut in the pit, the sauerkraut used for export is cleaned a total of 12 times and then finally passed the X-ray machine inspection to be qualified.

Now, the number of orders for this sauerkraut has not been affected.

Even if those mustard greens are dozens of times more expensive than the domestic ones, the sales volume has not decreased.

Instead, it is because of the implementation of pit pickles, resulting in brine flowing directly into the field, causing salinization of the land.

Wait until you've finished planting mustards and then plant cotton, and you won't be able to do that.

Finally, the brine had to be pumped out of the pit.

Therefore, in this farce, some people have been hurt.

But to speak of grievances, even if it is true that the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people is now at stake, no snowflake will be innocent.

Not everyone spits and smokes while pickling sauerkraut.

But when faced with people with these problems, others did not stop and did not accuse, and they were also members of the industrial chain, and they should be responsible.

And if it is really "no problem", I am afraid there will be no double standard behavior.

What's more, sympathizing with the weak never means infringing on the rights and interests of others!

Whenever the consumer is the real victim.

Of course, some things have their limitations and helplessness.

But the more difficult it is, the more you must cherish the feathers.

Huarong County's sauerkraut industry can have today's industrial scale, inseparable from the 30 years, generations of farmers, governments, enterprises hard-earned reputation.

The accumulation of word of mouth is inseparable from the gifts of consumers.

But consumers, is it really inseparable from the pit sauerkraut mixed with cigarette butts?

The answer is obvious.

So, now it seems that although the pain is bitter, it is necessary.

It is a heavy price to pay to remember the lesson.

The road to more standardized and industrialized development may be long, at least first establish a set of open and transparent mechanisms.

Clean and hygienic, without discrimination.

In this way, we can believe in the sauerkraut in Huarong County again as we believe in our own children.

In the brush screen article, "Tukeng Sauerkraut Hurts You, but Also Hurts the Livelihood of 130,000 People", the vegetable farmer said:

The best mustard greens, the last thing you want is to rot in the field.

Then we also hope that the best mustard greens will not rot in people's hearts.

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"'Pit Sauerkraut' Hurts You and Hurts the Livelihood of 130,000 People", People of the Day, 2022.03.25

"The PR Routine of Ilimon Bull, "Melamine" Was Used At the Time of the Crime", Golden Wrong Knife, 2020.07.29