Beware of Plastic Rice !!!!

The “Plastic rice” is made by mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic. The potatoes are first formed into the shape of rice grains. Industrial synthetic resins are then added to the mix. The rice reportedly stays hard even after being cooked. 


Since the rice made from plastic does not behave like normal rice, it remains hard even after cooking, and the synthetic resins can be potentially very dangerous when consumed. Talking about the incident, a food expert said, “This ‘plastic rice’ is made by forming potatoes and sweet potatoes into rice-like shape, then adding industrial synthetic resins. Since the rice is different from normal rice, it is hard like stone even when cooked. Moreover, the synthetic resin in it is very harmful to the human body.”

A Chinese Restaurant Association official said that eating three bowls of this fake rice would be like eating one plastic bag.

Chinese companies mass producing fake rice out of plastic 

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NaturalNews) The Chinese food contamination freak show is back in full swing with new reports out of Singapore indicating that certain Chinese companies are now mass producing and selling fake rice to unwitting villagers. According to a report in the Korean-language Weekly Hong Kong, the manufacturers are blending potatoes, sweet potatoes, and plastic industrial resin to produce the imitation rice. 

A report in Very Vietnam states that an official from the Chinese Restaurant Association has announced that eating three bowls of this fake rice is the equivalent of eating an entire plastic bag. Consuming such plastic material is obviously a serious health hazard, and officials are allegedly gearing up to conduct an investigation into the factories accused of producing the phony rice. 

The scandal is not a surprise when considering China's long legacy food problems, including the 2008 melamine-tainted milk incident where roughly 300,000 people were injured and at least six infants died as a result of being poisoned by the toxic chemical (http://www.naturalnews.com/024837_f...). Other tainted food from China has included melamine-tainted pet foods, lead-tainted children's cups, and even another fake rice case where a Chinese company added synthetic flavorings to ordinary rice to trick people into thinking it was the more expensive "Wuchang" variety. 

Some media commentators have already begun to run wild with the fake rice story, comparing the imitation rice to what they say is the imitation reality in which the world lives. 

"Fake stimulus, fake money printing, fake GDP growth, fake goods and services being produced, is ... forcing us to consume fake food because we can't afford real food, because we have no real growth, we have no real economy, we have no real industry, we only have fake stuff," bemoaned talk show co-host Stacy Herbert from Russia Today. "So it makes sense that we're only eating fake food."

Amazing facts of Cricket !!!

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• Cricket is a 165 years old sport in India, it was first played in India in 1848
• India is the only country to win the 60-Over, 50-Over and 20-Over World Cup
• Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world and is played in over 130 countries.
• Cricket was played in the US as early as 1700 in the Cheseapeake Area
• Cricket was played in a primitive form beginning in 1200 CE
• The official laws of cricket were first created in 1744, by the Marylebone Cricket Club in London, England
• Cricket was the forerunner of the game rounders, of which developed townball, of which developed New York Baseball.
• Cricket is America's first bat and ball sport and was quite popular all across the country during the 19th century
• Between 1834 and 1914 over 1000 cricket clubs were formed in 46 states
• 19th century American cricket became primarily a middle/working class sport  
• 1859- US Cricket Team played the Canada Cricket Team in the FIRST International sporting event
• The only bowler to have got Sir Donald Bradman (Australia) out hit wicket was the Indian, Lala Amarnath.
• In 1952, versus England at Leeds, India were reduced to 0 for 4.
• Only 5 Indian batsmen - Gundappa Vishwanath, Mohammed Azharuddin and Saurav Ganguly, Sehwag, Shikhar dhawan have scored centuries on debut for India, and then scored centuries again in their careers
• Wilfred Rhodes (England) has batted at all 11 positions in test cricket. His feat was emulated by Vinoo Mankad (INDIA).
• Against England, at Lord's in 1990, India needed 24 runs to avoid the follow-on, with 1-wicket in hand. After playing the first 2 balls of the over defensively Kapil Dev hit off-spinner Eddie Hemmings for 4 consecutive sixes (the only time this has ever been done), to avoid the follow-on. Next ball number 11 batsman Narendra Hirwani was dismissed by Angus Fraser.
• The best test bowling figures on debut are those of Narendra Hirwani(India). He took 16 for 136 versus the West Indies. He broke Bob Massie's record of 16 for 137.
• When India hosted Sri Lanka, and Kapil Dev was nearing Sir Richard Hadlee's world record 431 wickets in test cricket, the Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin asked Kumble to intentionally bowl outside the off stump so as to avoid taking too many wickets, and thus allowing Kapil Dev the shot at the record in that match. Eventually Kapil succeeded in having Hashan Tilekratne(Sri Lanka) caught at forward short leg by Sanjay Manjrekar to secure his 432nd test victim.
• The only wicket keeper to have stumped Sir Donald Bradman (Australia) was Prabir Sen of INDIA
• MS Dhoni holds the world record for 6 dismissals by a wicket keeper in a one-dayer. V/s England at leeds in 2007

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• 5 of the largest broadcasting companies in the world (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC and CBC) transmit in English, reaching millions and millions of people all over the world.
• Over two-thirds of the world's scientists read in English.
• Three quarters of the world's mail is written in English. 
• Eighty per cent of the world's electronically stored information is in English. 
• Of the estimated forty million users of the Internet, some eighty per cent communicate in English, but this is expected to decrease to forty per cent as speakers of other languages get online."
• 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• 'Lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
• 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
• 'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• 'Rhythm' is a rare six letter word in English with no vowels in it.

1. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
2. Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
3. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
4. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
5. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
6. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”
7. All Polar bears are left-handed.
8. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
9. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
10. Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family.
11. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

1. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
2. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why!
3. The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ‘7’ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles.
4. Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.
5. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
6. There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
7. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
8. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.
9. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
10. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

1. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
2. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
3. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
6. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
7. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
8. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
9. Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
10. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.