Chinese corruption in food distribution

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-as-china-elite-foods,0,7999270.story

This article showed impressive knowledge of the way food is distributed in China. The angle examined how the political elite in the country are given the highest quality food; a supply that is kept unavailable to the masses. It had good support of the issue, giving statistics and evidence of recent instances in which the public has been severely affected by the inconsistency of the quality of the food supply. The reporter even compared this situation to similar problems in other countries such as the former Soviet Union and North Korea, both of which have seen famines and starvation while their leaders eat only the finest. However, this article does not sufficiently cover why there seems to be such a low supply of healthy food. In such a densely populated area it is unrealistic to only have organic food like their leaders eat, but crops that are genetically modified to produce higher yields should not be causing so many health problems with the people of China. The reporter should have examined why harmful rather than helpful chemicals are appearing in so much of the general food supply. As the story reads now, one can only assume that this is a strategy to create more profit in such a high-demand market.