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Comrade A: After some research, I found that the doubts surrounding the lead poisoning case in Tianshui, Gansu, are too significant, and no one online believes the official report anymore. It was the report claiming that the poisoning was due to the kitchen buying lead-based paint and mixing it into the food, even using surveillance cameras as evidence.
Because this explanation is economically unfeasible; edible paint is cheaper than chrome yellow lead. Unless a private kindergarten with millions of investment, from the boss to all food management staff, are fools, such an incident wouldn’t happen. Also, industrial dyes cause acute poisoning easily—nausea, vomiting, etc.—but the children there show signs of chronic poisoning (children sent to Beijing say their teeth have “lead lines,” indicating long-term poisoning). The local hospital tests also showed no issues, and the investigation was conducted in Xi’an and even Beijing. This kindergarten is not for the poorest children, so such problems are unlikely. It can be basically confirmed that the government and upstream industrial enterprises colluded, ignoring pollution discharge and jointly concealing the results with hospitals. That’s why they hurriedly released some investigation report to shift the blame onto the kitchen. This explanation simply attributes the problem to individual stupidity. Moreover, Tianshui in Gansu experienced a lead poisoning incident over ten years ago.
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Tianshui Kindergarten Children’s Blood Lead Level Report
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"The official report on Tianshui Kindergarten lead poisoning states: “It was caused by the three-color steamed cake made with colored dipping sauce by the kitchen auntie.”
But below the video, a netizen commented: “My cousin works in the kitchen of this kindergarten, earning less than two thousand a month, and now they are preparing to pin the blame on the cooks. The supply chain is not theirs, nor is the procurement. Ordinary rural women are being scapegoated. Do they even know what lead is? Their families are also frantic. Now, someone needs to take the blame, and it’s them.”
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When Zhongxiu encounters problems, it only shifts the blame downward,甚至 even trying to push all the responsibility onto uninformed workers.
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One more thing to mention is that teachers from where also suffered lead poisoning.
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It’s like this, it’s complete nonsense, and there are doubts all over the internet
Pushing the pot to the aunt in the back kitchen, but what are the specific investigation details, who did it, where was the paint bought? What about all the receipts?
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A normal business unit would have detailed expenditure records. If such a claim were true, it would be utterly ridiculous to find no source at all. Zhongxiu hastily issued this notice, intending to attribute the matter to the stupidity of an individual, presenting a seemingly serious surveillance video (which in fact cannot determine what was added) to fool those who only see the surface of things and want to give up, even completely ignoring basic economic and everyday common sense.
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The mid-level repair is really ridiculous; industrial pigments are more expensive than edible pigments, and yet they still insist that kindergartens buy industrial pigments.
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Xi Jinping, like Deng Xiaoping, is the general manager of the rumor company, constantly lying on stage, saying that China’s economy is bright, spouting a bunch of big lies and falsehoods every day. In reality, the people have long seen through him.
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Damn it, these bourgeoisie only know how to smear and slander the working people; if they openly cover up these facts, they will surely face the anger of the working people across the country.
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@Amber Is there anything you disagree with? Feel free to comment directly and discuss with everyone.
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First, the kindergarten used safe and inexpensive food coloring (5.04 yuan/100 grams), but the management, in pursuit of more vibrant colors, used industrial dyes (6.12–6.88 yuan/100 grams). Although industrial dyes are slightly more expensive, the difference is not significant, and price is not the only influencing factor.
The kindergarten chose to use industrial dyes for the so-called “sense of grade” to attract enrollment, reflecting capitalism’s erosion of education, placing safety as secondary in favor of traffic and enrollment benefits. At the same time, if the environment around the kindergarten has lead pollution, it would not only poison the children and staff of the kindergarten. The responsibility for this matter does not lie with the chefs or kindergarten staff, who must obey the instructions of the principal and investors.
Additionally, the kindergarten did not obtain a school operating permit, yet the education bureau of Zhongxiu turned a blind eye for two years, and the bureau chief was even bribed.
Market regulation departments are completely formalistic and involved in benefit transfer. Hospital data falsification covers up the real data, and testing operations are non-compliant.
The key is not about “what kind of pigment”—staying at the surface of technology—the real issue lies in the structural problems of Zhongxiu.
There are also doubts: why does the pigment supplier, whose products are “not edible,” still sell to the kindergarten? What are the specific brands of industrial pigments?
Industrial colorants can be deadly and toxic if ingested, and they are even more expensive. Which kindergarten management has a broken brain to use industrial colorants? I’ve seen cheap toxic substances used as substitutes for ingredients, but never seen expensive ones replace them. If they really did this, capitalists would have gone bankrupt long ago.
Industrial colorants (like lead chromate yellow) act immediately upon ingestion, so shouldn’t problems have arisen early? Those parents are not blind.
Moreover, relying on bright food to attract children is nonsense. I’ve seen kindergartens attract children with speculative academic methods, and others with attentive healthful food. But I’ve never seen anyone attract children with bright (poisoned) food. Not only children, but teachers also show elevated blood lead levels. Do we also rely on bright food to attract teachers?
There are plenty of related evidence online. Why do you ignore the facts and whitewash the middle school?
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It still feels like your replies have a strong AI flavor, a sense of being forced and abstract.
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Follow-up on the lead poisoning incident at Tianshui Kindergarten in Gansu: Parents block the road in protest, police beat and arrest rights defenders (2025.07.20)
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In fact, food coloring is cheaper and more effective than industrial coloring. No capitalist would use something more expensive and less effective. Moreover, the consequences caused by industrial coloring are not simply lead poisoning. I work in a chemical factory, and all the dyes we handle there are very expensive. Industrial dyes are not sold retail; they are sold in bulk, hundreds of kilograms per barrel. Also, you speak very mechanically, like an AI, and I don’t understand why you have to rigidly echo the official statements of the Zhongxiu (Zhongxiu) authorities, even though you refer to them as Zhongxiu yourself.
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Are you already assuming that industrial pigments purchased from kindergarten and used in food are a given? What evidence do you have for that? And you also say not to stay on the surface of the technology, but if a problem cannot be logically explained even technically, then what political issues are we talking about? Moreover, this is not purely a technical issue at all, but a matter of attitude towards the clearly distorted facts presented by Zhongxiu.
You say the suspicion lies in:
Then, aren’t these suspicions pointing directly to the issue of Zhongxiu fabricating facts itself?
You keep talking about probing structural problems, but you turn a blind eye to Zhongxiu’s fabrication of facts to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie. Isn’t that too absurd?
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Is attracting students too absurd? Your statement is a laughable remark.
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