[whiteperil] Sean Kinsell: A learning experience

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Posted by Sean Kinsell:
A learning experience
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   Life certainly can pour on the dark comedy sometimes. Meat Hope
   recently [1]received a group of trainees from...China. One is left
   with the droll question of why, given the PRC's recent explosion of
   export-related scandals, they felt the need to come to Japan to learn
   about fraudulent use of ingredients and product labeling, given how
   advanced such practices are at home:

     Eighteen Chinese scheduled to work as trainees at the
     scandal-tainted meat processing company Meat Hope Co. in Tomakomai,
     Hokkaido, might be forced to return to China if they cannot find
     alternative companies to sponsor them, it was learned Thursday.
     ...
     After irregularities were discovered, the company told all its
     employees they were to be dismissed because the company was facing
     bankruptcy.

   A few of the workers are forming a union to fight the dismissals.

References

   1. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070629TDY02001.htm