It was on the news again tonight. Lots of info online about it. One site says the Chinese eat it bcz it's cheaper.. Beware, Fake Rice from China that contains Plastic Spreading all over the World | WorldFactsNews
Fake rice allegation was untrue, baseless | New Straits Times | Malaysia General Business Sports and Lifestyle News (Claims unverified.) Fake rice made with plastic reportedly spreading across Asia: Shanghaiist (Claims unverified.) NFA probes origin of 'fake rice' | ABS-CBN News (Probe finds no traces of plastic in supposed "fake rice".) There is not a single reference in the article posted in the OP (and that newspaper needs to fire their copy editor). Looks like wild internet claims to me. Impossible to tell what is really going on when the Philippine media is writing about it. They prefer the appeal to emotion style of journalism. Here is an article about fake rice seeds being confiscated back in 2011 in China. Maybe that is the source of confusion. Fake seed crackdown reaps results Here is Duterte making some threats. They better back off "or else" (gee, I wonder what he has planned for them...my guess is it doesn't involve a fair trial). But honestly, look at this crap: Who would ever confuse that with rice? And this should be a pretty easy one to figure out.....unless the people forgot where they bought their last sack of rice at.
ABS-CBN tv interviewed some people during the Cebu news who had cooked it and they told of how it became obvious something was wrong as they cooked it and examined it. So just keep your eyes open
