I've heard that you have to have "hair" to make soy sauce?

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About 20 years ago, I talked to a colleague who was involved in food fermentation, and learned that some of the connoisseurs he knew had made some achievements in the scientific research of hair

making soy sauce. Traditionally, soy sauce is made from fermented soy protein, hair

the main component is protein, hydrolyzed into amino acids to make soy sauce is not impossible. This can save a lot of soybean raw materials. Of course, the composition of the amino acids hydrolyzed from hair protein is certainly different from that of the amino acids hydrolyzed from soy protein, which may affect the flavor of soy sauce and make people's mouths suffer

. Hair soy sauce for people's daily consumption may also raise corresponding psychological and ethical issues. But our

connoisseurs first consider scientific research results, thesis, title, psychological and ethical issues can always be resolved with the scientific view of Ma

Lenin and Maoism. The world is material, people are material, the material between each other to transform

Chemical, hair soy sauce is also material transformation, hair soy sauce to the stomach and material transformation, this is science,

This is also open source, very consistent with Mao's advocacy of "saving the revolution".

However, a chance incident made me doubt the hygiene of hair soy sauce. That day, I was getting a haircut at a barber shop. From time to time, I saw the barbers collecting hair from the floor, which they said could be sold

to the recycling department. "Yeah, these hairs are proteins that can be made into soy sauce and eaten." I mentally mumbled to myself

. Suddenly, an ominous thought came up: these collected hair mixed with the dust on the ground, stained with

dropped on the ground shampoo, shampoo, shaving liquid, etc., from time to time, or the ground there is also spit, sputum stains, and some hair is

dyed, and the dye is extremely toxic, these messy filth, poisonous if into the mouth, the body

in, what will be the What would be the consequences? I was sick to my stomach and had goosebumps just thinking about it.

The first thing I did when I got home was to grab the soy sauce bottle and look at it over and over again to see if there was any hair in it.

But I immediately realized it was futile. If there was hair in the soy sauce, the factory wouldn't have labeled it.

Labeling it would have ruined their business because not only would the people not understand that hair is a protein, but it would have been difficult for the people to

cross the psychological and ethical hurdle of eating human hair. For that reason alone, factories don't engage in "here's 300

two." I can cross the psychological and ethical barriers, from the scientific theory that the hair soy sauce can be imported, but

I do not want to also dust and dirt, shampoo, shampoo, hair dye and so on all together in the mouth, we

Chinese people stomach cheap, but not a garbage can.

From then on, hair soy sauce has become my heart disease.

So, I sent the iron shoulder to bear the righteousness of the air, want to find connoisseurs and the Science Commission to discuss the issue of hair sauce hygienic.

Just calm down and think again, this profession must have the authority, the people of the Science Commission is also a "big take", it's not good to provoke

They, the future do not want to apply for research funds, and do not want to pass the scientific research appraisal held by them.

To find other

departmental inquiry is also not good, in case of mutual cover up, I am the one who stabbed the mess can be eaten and go away.

Thinking about it, hesitating again and again, for many years in the party's education and the formation of the thinking mode of not being a head of state prevailed

The wind, or to look at it again, maybe there are other good people to poke the hornet's nest. In those days, there was a lot of talk about bourgeois liberalization, so I'd better keep quiet and keep my mouth shut.

As for my family's diet, I'd like to say goodbye to soy sauce, but it's not practical to say goodbye to soy sauce, which is a daily necessity

. Members of the family are talking about soy sauce. "It's not that bad, is it? How can the government be so

shady as to let it happen?" "How can I stir-fry without soy sauce?" In the end, we lowered our psychological ethical bottom

line on the one hand; on the other hand, we had good intentions for the Party and the government as well as the factory, and reached a ****ing intellectual compromise. From now on, whenever I am in charge of stir-frying, I

will use soy sauce with great caution, so that I will lose the aroma of soy sauce, so that I can cook without color. I have an ulterior motive of self-deception

and selfishness: everyone in China eats soy sauce, and if it is poisonous, everyone will be in bad luck, and I eat less of it,

that is, I am in bad luck, and I am less likely to be in bad luck than others.

After many years, I still keep an eye out for soy sauce that is labeled with hair as an ingredient, and I finally didn't find such a soy sauce

oil. But that didn't eliminate my misgivings about soy sauce, because I had a "crisis of confidence" in the product's ingredient labeling. I think

"You can't do great things without telling lies" has become an ingrained motto in Chinese society.

One of my shoe-buying encounters reinforced my view. I went to a nationally renowned old large shopping malls,

A wide range of sneakers, there is a large signboard clearly marked out cowhide manufacturing, buyers because of its price is surprisingly

cheap, flocked to. I also want a pair of, after a closer look, with my rich experience, to determine that it is absolutely

not cowhide. I questioned the saleswoman, but she bites is cowhide. I had to laugh and secretly admonish myself

self, do not argue, do not be Don Giovanni. Otherwise, smashing her business, she had to go crazy with me. Besides, the shoe buyers

might also think I'm "meddling in their own business". In the face of the hustle and bustle, the endless stream of buyers, hanging sheep

head of the big signboards selling dog meat, the famous shopping malls, I can not help but long sigh: this country has degenerated into the abyss of

false falsehoods, people are trapped in it, leisurely, why would I be so sentimental. Since then, I gave up

the attempt to find hair sauce, knowing that in China, "name" and "reality" are two different things, and need not be

serious.

On the mainland for many years, because of my profession and the food industry a little bit of edge, understand some of the inside of the shady, know that many manufacturers

in order to open the source of flow misuse of alum, industrial gelatin, industrial pigments, talc, bleach and even dichlorvos and so on in the

food processing process. Fake and inferior, pit people belly, hurt the health of things endless, like a dike flood

water, flooding around. I personally can do is "self-discipline", the whole family to eat more unprocessed food, eat less

or do not eat processed food. For the continuous emergence of shoddy food injuries and deaths in society, I have not seen

we are not strange, who told us that the Chinese love reticence, old and reserved, this is called "Zhou Yu beat Huanggai, a willingness to fight a

willing to suffer".

After arriving in North America, because time is money, I seldom spend time to go to Chinatown, and even if I did, I would keep a cautious attitude towards the various kinds of Chinese

foods, which can be described as palpitating with fear and misgivings. Even though all the

Chinese-made soy sauce here is labeled as being made from soybeans, I'm still in the habit of "ordering what I can", so I can't finish a bottle of soy sauce

. I'm ashamed to think that I didn't contribute to the cause of earning foreign currency for my country. In fact,

I am Chinese, of course I like Chinese food. In China, I often refused to tofu (see "75 years to do pseudo

inferior" New Year's Eve tofu "record"); here, I can often eat tofu, because this kind of Chinese food is locally produced

, I feel safe to eat; on the mainland because of food is not assured that I eat, as far as possible, I respect far away. But I don't want to whine to

my compatriots around me that the world is going downhill on the mainland and that counterfeiting is rampant, and I don't want to point out that China's rule

is the general source of counterfeiting and shoddy work. That's not because I'm afraid of offending the C*** -- the C*** has a monopoly on the mainland, and in

North America, it can't pinch whoever it wants and fix whoever it wants in broad daylight. --I'm afraid that I'll get in trouble with my compatriots who don't talk about politics and those who are patriotic when they get enough to eat, and I'm afraid that I'll touch the scales of these people, and it will hurt my feelings and be boring. People are quite patriotic, and are determined to take off with the party's leadership of China, and are determined to avoid talking about politics

governance, and protect the party's shortcomings, so why should I be cynical, and act as a "stumbling block" to the wheel of China's history that is rolling forward?

So, in this free world of North America, because of the careful eye not to touch the scales, I know that there are people who are "patriotic

To protect the shortcomings, there will be sacrifices", and they are willing to risk the sacrifice of money and health for the Chinese characteristics of the socialist

Yi food industry to provide the primitive accumulation, they are also probably willing to accept the hair soy sauce, and the hair of the food industry. They are probably also willing to accept shoddy products from the motherland like hair soy sauce.

Anyway, they are "a child does not mind his mother's ugliness, and a son does not praise his father's evil." Therefore, I personally obey their collective will, and in

ending my rant on the subject of hair soy sauce, I will borrow a famous line from a certain comedian, "I knew there was a problem, but I just didn't say anything about it."

Making soy sauce out of hair sounds ridiculous, it's disgusting to think about, and it's carcinogenic - but China's "brilliant" counterfeiting experts have a knack for making it a reality and selling it nationwide.

People open the door to seven things, wood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar and tea. Nowadays, almost all of these daily necessities, which are close to the people, have fallen into the territory of counterfeit products. After poisoned rice, gutter oil (cooking oil recovered from restaurant sewers), industrial salt and other counterfeit foods, a new "product" - hair soy sauce - has entered the lives of Chinese people.

Hair purchased from barbershops can be used to make an amino acid solution, commonly known as "hair water". In addition to industrial use, this hair water is also used by counterfeiters in the production of soy sauce and other edible seasonings. Compared with the amino acids generated by fermentation of soybeans and grain crops, these amino acids processed from hair are not only cheap, but can also superficially meet the quality inspection standards for brewing soy sauce.

People's Daily Online yesterday cited reports that in some places in Northeast and North China, the vast majority of hair from barbershops is purchased for about 1 yuan per kilogram, and then, after picking and choosing, is sold for 1 yuan and 80 cents per kilogram to Shandong and Hebei, where manufacturers use it to produce master batches of amino acids, which are sold nationwide. Some small manufacturers use these mother liquor to configure "hair soy sauce", and then these cheap hair soy sauce sold to restaurants and morning market.

Acquisition of hair business is red-hot

Xinle City, Hebei, small house Fu village is a "professional hair village", the village hair acquisition wholesale points one by one, business is very red-hot, from the country's hair are concentrated there, after the initial processing and then sold to Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan, Chongqing and other provinces and cities.

Amino acid masterbatch made from hair contains arsenic, lead and other harmful substances, the human liver, kidneys, blood system, reproductive system and other toxic side effects, can cause cancer.

In fact, making soy sauce from hair is nothing new in China. In January, China Central Television (CCTV) reported that the Jinjinle Seasoning Factory in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, was using dirty hair as an amino acid solution to produce soy sauce, except that there are so many fake and shoddy goods in China that many people have become a bit numb to this kind of news.

Scholars have pointed out that some local governments are not doing enough to monitor and crack down on counterfeiters to protect their own interests.

At the same time, China has more than a dozen departments involved in food safety supervision, often working separately and inefficiently on the issue of counterfeiting. In the circulation of commodities, some organizations that have the ability to test commodities do not have the power to enforce the law, while the departments that do have the power to enforce the law lack the means to do so, leaving a lot of room for counterfeiters and sellers.

A professor at Renmin University of China's School of Public **** Management believes that to effectively curb the proliferation of counterfeit and shoddy commodities, officials must implement a strict administrative accountability system in addition to strengthening the functions of the anti-counterfeiting departments, so that major party and government officials in areas where counterfeiting and selling of fake food products are taking the blame for their resignations according to the specific losses that the counterfeit food products have brought to society.