The luak (aka Asian palm civet), that's a small catlike animal, gorges after dark on the most ripe, the best of our crop
eat my crap ...
Posted on 04/18/2018 5:59:27 AM PDT by Gamecock
Dak Nong Police said on Tuesday they were finalizing case files to prosecute those involved in the operations of a local facility that produced ‘dirty’ coffee.
The facility, owned by Nguyen Thi Loan, was raided by police and food inspectors on Monday afternoon following reports from locals of their suspicious activities.
During the raid, authorities discovered tons of finished coffee as well as raw materials used in production, including 35 kilograms of black powder taken from used D batteries and a bucket of blackish water weighing around ten kilograms.
According to Loan, her workshop bought rejected coffee beans from large facilities at a cheap price, ground and mixed them with other materials including dirt and rock dust, then used the black powder found inside D batteries to ‘dye’ the mixture to produce finished products.
Loan confessed to having run the facility for years and had sold over three tons of ‘coffee’ to the market since the beginning of 2018.
At the time of the raid, there was twelve metric tons of the dirty coffee available at Loan’s facility.
Police have taken samples of the battery-dyed coffee for lab tests to complete case files for the prosecution of those involved.
According to Assoc. Prof. Tran Hong Con, a chemistry expert from the Vietnam National University – Hanoi, the ‘black powder’ found inside D batteries is actually manganese dioxide that makes up the batteries’ core.
Manganese dioxide is a highly oxidant compound, and as little as 0.5 milligrams of it mixed in a liter of water is enough to cause manganese poisoning in humans, Con said.
In addition, other heavy metals commonly found inside batteries such as lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As) are all extremely toxic elements that can damage one’s brain, kidney, cardiovascular system and fertility if consumed.
“Poisoning caused by any of the aforementioned heavy metals can have very adverse health effects, including death in serious cases,” an expert from Vietnam’s National Institute of Nutrition said.
That would explain the black dye. Had they used white dye, they'd have been off to reeducation camp, er, sensitivity training.
I was wondering why coffee has been tasting so awful in the last few years.
Or as S.F. liberals call it, "Organic Fair Trade Coffee"
LOL!
I prefer a good 9-volt in the morning myself.
I’ve heard of coffee referred to battery acid before but this seems a bit extreme.
Good one!
“It puts a spark in your morning!”
IT'S GOT ELECTROLYTES!!
Honey, the coffee tastes really acidic this morning. Is it yesterday’s coffee?
“War mongering, capitalistic pig-dogs - friends - are visiting from America....”
I like to recharge my batteries with a cup of joe. But this is taking things a little too literally.
“Dirty Coffee” sounds like it could be the latest coffee-snob/greenie fad in California: “It tastes earthy and is good for the earth too because it has earth in it ...”
“The traditional method of collecting feces from wild civets has given way to intensive farming methods in which civets in battery cage systems are force-fed the cherries. This method of production has raised ethical concerns about the treatment of civets due to “horrific conditions” including isolation, poor diet, small cages and a high mortality rate.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
Ask your pharmacy if your medications are coming from China? Then think about what side effects you’re having and what fillers could be in the medications.
President Trump should bring prescription medications back to the USA where they can be “inspected” instead of trusting what’s in the ones made overseas. There are not enough inspectors to truly know what we’re getting from foreign countries.
Walmart contracts with tons of other companies to sell through their website. Just bought a paddle board on clearance and have no clue where its coming from. Bought 2 kayaks at the same time and it seems they are actually coming from Walmart.
Do they put formaldehyde in it?
I don’t think so. I don’t drink beer mostly, myself.
Vietnam has changed a great deal. It is a relatively poor country, but moving forward quite rapidly.
We should continue to cultivate an improving relationship with Vietnam, in my view.
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