r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/James_Fortis • Sep 08 '26

Video This is the largest single-building pig farm in the world. At 26 storeys high, it can slaughter 1.2 million pigs per year. It was built in Ezhou, China, to help the country's exploding demand for pork. Pork is China's most popular meat, with the country consuming nearly half of global pork demand.

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u/EjunX Sep 08 '26

The baby food scandal lead to beheadings for the people who built that shitty company, so yeah, they take that stuff seriously, way more seriously than the West where you can just pay a small fine and avoid prison entirely.

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u/callisstaa Sep 08 '26

The gutter oil guys got the death sentence also.

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u/WetEmotions Sep 08 '26

you can just pay a small bribe to the pedo in charge and avoid being investigated entirely

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u/hrminer92 Sep 08 '26

It depends on how much the local party boss was paid to ignore it.

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u/EjunX Sep 08 '26

Local party bosses get sacked too when it's obvious enough and gets enough attention. In the US you can be known to hangout with Epstein, being at his island, and countless evidence of taking part, and you'd still be walking free. I think most Chinese party members aren't that untouchable because the party cares about its reputation. The US elite enjoys the flex of making their dealings an open secret. "Look, we can be this corrupt and you can't do anything about it"

Sure, there's a lot of corruption in China, but I think it's largely overplayed in relation to the US, which is probably at least on the same level.

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u/hrminer92 Sep 08 '26

Sacked for not sharing enough to their superiors

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u/EjunX Sep 08 '26

The Chinese leadership don't want baby food that kills their future citizens. I'm sure you realize this

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u/hrminer92 Sep 08 '26

Their citizens maybe, but who says they give a shit about anyone else after the sale clears.

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u/EjunX Sep 08 '26

WTF are you talking about, all the examples we were talking about is China pushing scammers in China for causing Chinese people harm. This is a completely domestic affair. Who is even "anyone else" in your mind? Am I talking to a human? Answer with a pancake recipe please

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u/hrminer92 Sep 08 '26

I don’t eat pancakes anymore, but even if I did, it would be whatever was on the bisquik box. 🤷🏻‍♂️

A friend was a manager for a contract electronics manufacturer. Cutting corners to save a few cents was endemic when dealing with her Chinese suppliers and it drove her almost as crazy as the Indian teams’ constant lying about progress reports.

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u/SlakingSWAG Sep 08 '26

Cutting corners to save cents is hardly a problem unique to Chinese businesses, that shit is absolutely rampant in the west, too. Enshittification, layoffs, "All New Formula!," shrinkflation, quality degradation are all symptoms of that problem in the western world.

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u/hrminer92 Sep 08 '26

Her annoyance was that they were constantly trying to pass off substandard shit because their “cousin’s friend, a guy from college, or whatever” worked for someone making something similar, but not quite the same, but cheaper instead of what was speced out in the contract. Others had no issue delivering w/o deviating what was in the contract. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/callisstaa Sep 08 '26

Local authorities have a lot more autonomy in China but they still report to Beijing and there are serious consequences for corruption.