"A Chinese Official Says all the Smog is Just From Smoking Bacon"

From Vox:

 

A Chinese official recently offered an intriguing explanation for his city's pervasive smog: bacon.

Xinhua, China's official press agency, reported that Rao Bing, an environmental official in the city of Dazhou, blamed the smoking of bacon for the city's air pollution. And, in response, civil servants began raiding and destroying facilities where meat is smoked.

Some onlookers, however, suspected that bacon was being scapegoated. Chinese skeptics took to Sina Weibo (China's equivalent to Twitter) to mock the decision: "Smoking bacon has a long history, but smog does not," one wrote....MORE

Part of our "Je suis Porky" series.

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Oxford University Press: Je Suis Porky