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2012年12月24日雅思阅读精选:Quartz评论中国肯德基事件
Chinas food safety campaign against KFC is the real threat to Yum
When Yum Brands announced last month that it expected KFC-Chinas fourth-quarter sales to decline 4%, spurring a sharp sell-off in the companys stock, CEO David Novak attributed it the slump to the macrosmeaning, the much-discussed sputtering of Chinas economic growth.
But that wasnt the whole story. Days before Yums revised estimate, the Chinese state television network CCTV reported on KFCs sourcing of fast-growth chickens, birds dosed with toxic concoctions to shorten their maturation cycle. The Chinese micro-blogosphere promptly freaked out, but the charge didnt stick: Health inspectors cleared the fast-growth chickens, which turned out to be the overseas industry standard, imported from the United States.
But CCTV wasnt done. On Tuesday, it ran an investigative piece on large-scale chicken farmers, highlighting their insouciant way with antibiotics and growth hormones. Though KFC and McDonalds, which was also implicated, both say they havent sourced from those kinds of farms in months, it matters little to public perception. When it comes to food safety, these ongoing reporting campaigns are fairly common, explains Beijing-based lawyer and blogger Stan Abrams:
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