“When they are trying to return to more meals at home, they don’t want to start from scratch like we would a generation or two ago,” said Tim Hammonds, president and CEO at the Food Marketing Institute, an industry trade group. “That’s why the prepared foods are so popular.”

One in every five people in the world lives in communist China. Unlike other BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the Chinese lack representative government, the rule of law administered by independent judges, basic human rights, freedom of the media, independent universities and the right of workers to move freely. Even the constitution makes clear that the government has no limits or accountability to the Chinese people.

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