Amid milk scare, China's elite get special food

 
Associated Press
Published: September 25, 2008

BEIJING (AP) -- While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the choicest, safest delicacies. They get hormone-free beef from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia , organic tea from the foothills of Tibet and rice watered by melted mountain snow.

And it's all supplied by a special government outfit that provides all-organic goods from farms working under the stricte...


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