Eating China: Confucius say, "Insect no bite poison vegetable."

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Confucius say, "Insect no bite poison vegetable." May 25th 2011, 16:19 It is a sadly homogenous world when supermarkets cannot sell vegetables with a few insect bites, even for a steep discount. It is not because they are not allowed to, it is because consumers won't accept it. We are so used to uniform-looking supermarket shelf produce – as if it has been stamped out at a sheet metal factory – that anything less seems like a defect. Surely a couple of holes in a cabbage or a lettuce leaf is the easiest way to verify that it is not saturated in chemicals?

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