China’s bayberry season 2026: From farm-fresh delight to ‘pharmacy fruit’ in one illegal soak.
8000x sweetener + banned preservative, workers who won’t eat their own product, prices crashing to pennies, farmers dumping tons.
Government yawns until Weibo explodes. Is this the ultimate self-own of cutthroat ‘Chinese characteristics’ capitalism — or just survival of the slickest?
Questions for the Darwinist dinner table: Would you eat it? Why does this keep happening?