On July 20, the media exposed the use of expired and spoiled meat ingredients by Shanghai Fuxi Food Co., Ltd., a meat supplier of McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut and other internationally renowned fast food chains. According to the report, Fuxi Company processes expired inferior meat by reworking expired food and changing the shelf life label, and then sells the produced Malak chicken nuggets, steaks, hamburger meat, etc. to most fast food chains such as KFC, McDonald's, and Pizza Hut. Its staff even said that "it is not dead when it expires".
It was Fuxi Company that was investigated and punished, but the real "shot" was obviously McDonald's, KFC and other foreign fast food. Previously, they were the focus of much controversy. After the incident, foreign fast food companies also urgently tried to cut off contact with Fuxi: McDonald's said that it had completely stopped using related raw materials; KFC said that except for some products from a few KFC restaurants in Fujian Province, all KFC restaurants in other cities did not use meat food ingredients provided by Shanghai Fuxi; Dicos said it had stopped selling breakfast ham sandwiches; IKEA restaurant said that Fuxi had provided a meat product that was no longer provided after September last year; and Subway said that it had never used any meat products from Fuxi.
However, such a clarification may not be able to make most people buy it. For example, the indignation of the Weibo celebrity @ Song Zude is overflowing with words, vowing to ban foreign fast food and then fast: "So dark-hearted, so bold to deceive our people, our government should be determined to ban McDonald's KFC!" Don't let them continue to plague children and young people! Chinese unite and say no to these two bullshit junk food! ”
Media comments obviously can't be overly extreme, but the goal is still foreign fast food. Xinhua News Agency's cable from Shanghai pointed out that the supplier under investigation, Fuxi, is also a foreign-funded enterprise: "Public information shows that Shanghai Fuxi is not a small workshop, but a wholly foreign-owned enterprise, and its investor is an internationally renowned large enterprise with operations in more than 17 countries around the world." If there is indeed no problem, it will naturally withstand all kinds of examinations, and the truth should be quickly made public. Concealing one can't help but wonder: how many cats are waiting to be solved in the supply chain of foreign fast food? ”
Probably because of the suddenness of the incident, on the morning of the 21st, the comment pages of various metropolitan newspapers did not respond to this matter. @Beijing News Review's Weibo account only grasped the details of "checking like micro-service private visits" to make a micro-comment: "A sentence from Fuxi employees is more worthy of attention: 'When inspecting... Just like the emperor went down to micro-service private visits, first say hello, the people lined up, welcome and welcome. 'How can food safety supervision be reduced to a mutually reinforcing performance?' ”
The foothold of the People's Network's comments is the more common "quality inspection should be struck hard", but the concept of foreign fast food is obviously not spared, and the guilt listed by the People's Network is a double standard: "The frequent occurrence of food safety problems in foreign fast food exposes the negligence of our quality inspection department in daily inspection." The moon that is not foreign is rounder than that of China. After the reporter's undercover investigation, Shanghai Fuxi Food Co., Ltd. gave priority to the distribution of problematic food in China. It seems that foreign food companies have found a 'law', and China's lax inspection efforts have led to their rampage. Many well-known brands have excellent quality in their home countries, but they have frequent problems in China, and two sets of quality implementation standards have led chinese people to pay for their interests. ”
The Legal Evening News also issued a timely comment on the afternoon of the 21st, which was more "reasonable" than other peers. In the question "This matter actually shows that they do not attach as much importance to consumer health as advertised, otherwise, how can they cooperate with such a problem enterprise for a long time?" After the criticism, he also said a few good words for foreign fast food: "In recent years, foreign fast food has frequently had problems, but to be fair, this may not mean that foreign fast food is more serious than Chinese restaurants." To a certain extent, the problem of foreign fast food is easy to expose, and it is also related to the relatively standardized operation process. ”
In the face of foreign fast food that has repeatedly exposed food safety problems, public opinion is not one-sided criticism. The surging news specifically mentioned the support of ordinary consumers for "foreign fast food": "However, some citizens know that McDonald's is deeply involved in food safety storms and still insist on coming to eat." Every day before going to work, Ms Chan, a citizen, buys a ham steak and a drink at McDonald's. After watching the July 20 evening news, she still went to McDonald's for breakfast, but the ham grill was changed to a Gies Egg Fort, "Compared to the breakfast food at the roadside stall outside, the McDonald's food at least looks clean." Now there are food quality problems all the time, and I am numb. She said that she will continue to choose to eat McDonald's in the future, "on the cusp of the storm, the quality of food will not be a problem." ’”
Some people also "shouted" for foreign fast food, believing that foreign fast food was "pitted" by domestic suppliers. For example, @dumb who is certified as a "media person" on Weibo: McDonald's and KFC are also victims. The report said that McDonald's often went to Fuxi to check the raw materials, but was deceived by false accounts each time. These fast food restaurants do not have the ability to test each batch of raw materials, and can only choose large suppliers that are "trustworthy". And whether it is "trustworthy" should be the responsibility of the health regulatory authorities, right? Does Fuxi also serve expired and inferior meat to fast food restaurants in other countries?
However, this "washing posture" may be difficult to recognize. @ Bao Zhongtang: The health regulatory authorities have a responsibility not to be false, and black-hearted enterprises have become victims? Besides, do you need to check every batch of raw materials? Can't you find a few batches of random inspections at once?
Therefore, no matter how to "wash", the safety problem of foreign fast food does exist and causes social concern; but no matter how to resist, foreign fast food will always have a consumer base. Such a problem also exists more or less in domestic catering brands, but a "foreign" word undoubtedly mixes public opinion with more complex emotional factors. (Text/Qiu Tianren)
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