On February 22, ten men went into a supermarket at Xi’an city with sticks and knives and started bashing the supermarket.  10 customers and five supermarket employees were terrified and escaped from the supermarket immediately.  The whole incident was like a movie.

The supermarket name was “Zhong Jia”.  A shopkeeper said that when he was arranging the items on the shelves, ten men came into the store suddenly and started smashing everything once they got into the supermarket.  He saw those guys were carrying long stick and knives.  The computer for the cashier at the entrance was damaged badly.  The counter was also smashed into pieces.  All the beverages and beers on the shelves were on the floor, and the snacks, liquor, and many food products were spread on the floor.

Mr. Li, the owner of the 300 square meters supermarket, said that he was not in the supermarket when the supermarket was intruded.  He received call from the shopkeeper around 5 pm telling him that the supermarket was smashed.  Mr. Li said that he maintained a good relationship with the neighbourhood and the surrounding shops.  He suspected it was the guy who came to the supermarket several days ago asking him to sell the shop to the guy but got rejected by Li.  After Li’s refusal to sell the shop, the supermarket door was poured with red paint.  The supermarket bashing caused a ten thousand Yuan loss.

Xi’an police was investigating currently.

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The value of dysplastic Chinese cabbage was increased by several folds after its outer leaves were removed.  The lousy cabbages were branded as “Alpine Baby Cabbage” from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and sold at the major supermarkets and markets.

The fake baby cabbage incident was discovered by Mr. Dong who stayed at Chuiyangliu Middle St, Beijing, China.  He bought a pack of Alpine Baby Cabbage from local market three days ago.  When he reached home, he noticed that the baby cabbages he bought were different from what he usually bought.

It was written on the product description at the back of the packing, which stated that Alpine Baby Cabbage was produced in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Kunming, Qujing, Chuxiong, Yuxi Alpine Areas with high quality mountain spring water.  However there was no statement of the product origin and company’s name or address, and it was sealed with transparent tape.

Mr. Dong was confirmed that the baby cabbage was counterfeit as he was consuming it for over ten years.  He said that both the look and taste were different.

It was later discovered by the reporter disguised as college student that the baby cabbage was actually the heart of Chinese cabbage.  The traders said that the baby cabbages which were sold in bulk were actually the leftover of those rotten Chinese cabbage.  The vendors removed the rotten leaves of the Chinese cabbage and sold the heart as baby cabbages.  The traders said the current wholesale price for 500 grams Chinese cabbage was only 20 cents, and one big Chinese cabbage was less than 70 cents.  When the outer leaves were removed, the heart can be sold at 3 Yuan per 500 grams, and each Chinese cabbage’s heart can be sold at 1.5 Yuan.  So the vendors were not worried if the Chinese cabbages were not sold out as they can be sold as baby cabbage by removing the outer leaves.  This is an unspoken rule and many vendors were doing it.  Some of the vendors even bought the packings of Alpine Baby Cabbage and processed the “Alpine Baby Cabbage” by themselves.  Similar fake Alpine Baby Cabbage had been processed from the markets and flowed into the major supermarkets.

When the reporter went to complain to the market management, he was kicked out and was told that alpine baby cabbages were produced like that, and if he was not satisfied, he can just returned the goods at where he bought them.  The reporter had already complaint to the Beijing industrial and commercial bureau.

Source: enorth

A 1.5 meters, weighing about 32 kg adult crocodile was slaughtered at the square in front of one Fuzhou supermarket.  Three workers skinned and cut the crocodile for sale, and this attracted a large number of onlookers.

The crocodile was tied and placed on the square in the morning.  The butcher chopped the crocodile into two.  Its head was separated from the body and the blood splashed all over the flood.  The staff then chopped the crocodile’s limbs and then began skinning the crocodile.

The staff said that killing a crocodile is just like killing a pig.  He pointed out that different part of the crocodile has different price.  The limbs and tail is the most expensive part, which can be sold at 236 Yuan per kg.  The crocodile head is the cheapest, which is 135 Yuan per kg.

“Crocodile meat is very nourishing, especially for curing asthma.”  Supermarket staff members told the spectators.  They told the spectators that the crocodile meat is very delicious and nutritious, and it can be used for medicinal purposes.  They also claimed that cooking crocodile is simple.

This stirred conservations among the surrounding onlookers as many of them witness the slaughtering of crocodile for the first time in their life.  Out of curiosity, some people bought the crocodile meat.

There are also people expressed their doubts on killing a crocodile in public as crocodile is listed as national protected animal.

Some citizens also thought that killing crocodile bloodily in front of the public is just a method to attract customers.

Crocodile in China’s level two protected animal.  One who wishes to sell a crocodile must obtain the permit from provincial fishery administration department and quarantine permit from health and quarantine department.

The supermarket staff explained the crocodile is bought from Guangzhou and it was a second-generation aquaculture product.  The supermarket had applied all the permits and licenses from responsible departments before killing and selling crocodile.

According to “Compendium of Materia Medica”, crocodile meat is extremely beneficial.  However many medical experts and nutrition experts said that although crocodile meat is edible, it does not have the medicinal benefits on asthma and coughing like what the supermarket claimed.

Source: 6park