Police in China have arrested 904 people for “meat-related offences” over the past three months….One Shanghai-area gang made more than £1m by passing off fox, mink and rat meat as mutton.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/03/china-meat-offence-rat-mutton

I heard the news with great shock just several months before I came to Canada. It was nasty to think about what had I eaten for supper on those stalls after school.The personation that using fox,mink and rat meat as mutton is not only the cheat to consumers but also represents the falling tendency of the business ethic of Chinese food market. It is common sense that the relevant departments can not examine every single     slice of mutton, which is exactly the reason why business ethic is so important in food market.  The imperfect law, a lack of supervision and the tight punishment can all be the causes for this issue, but the positive social value may be the vital one. The inappropriate emphasize on profit and benefits leads to the situation that the interest group go after fame and money, which is not the only phenomena in the food safety area.Even through the status of Food and Drug Administration was raised greatly after 18th Chinese Communist Party National Congress, still it can not satisfy public’s expectation. Besides, a public supervision system rather than the inner one should be taken into account. Every single person instead of particular ones should take the responsibility of food safety, which means that only when the whole community put the moral value in a right way then the business ethic can be guided onto the valid direction。