Reuters: In China, food scares put Mao's self-sufficiency goal at risk

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In China, food scares put Mao's self-sufficiency goal at risk

BEIJING (Reuters) - The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou, the latest in a series of food scandals, has piled more pressure on China to clean up its food chain - possibly at the expense of Mao Zedong's cherished goal of self-sufficiency.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654218/s/2c460421/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class="feedflare">
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