Foreign milk costs money, domestic milk costs lives! – China
I read with much sadness on the baby milk scandal erupted in China, had cost lives of 4 babies so far. I also read with disgust that water was actually added to the milk to increase the volume and with that, in order to make up for the protein brought about by dilution, they added Melamine, a chemical, so that they can pass the tests…. it really makes me boil with fury.
My heart goes out to the parents in China, where they are only allowed to have one children (only citizens in farming industry can have more than one child), and now they have to undergo the trauma of possible health problems in their only child, for kidney problems are usually for life….
I remember the incident in China earlier this year on babies being fed (due to heartless people selling phony milk powder) with milk powder that contained no nutrients. And now, another milk powder incident surfaced, but this time with a death causing chemical. Best part is, it really took them long enough to bring the matter to light as I read several news on this, there had been phone calls as early as March to SanLu, the main milk powder company who has the highest amount of melamine found in their milk powders.
Is the Beijing Olympics more important than the lives of humans, somemore, their own people, their future generation?
Sanlu’s milk powders are also Inspection-free Products, a special status awarded by the government to the most trusted food producers. This really came as a Shock. It totally crashed the confidence of their own consumers, let alone foreign consumers.
Nowadays, the “Made in China” brand has been badly tarnished by series and series of food and product scares, as long as a product is made in China, we will automatically link it to “Poor Quality Product” in our head:-
“no wonder this mobile phone has poor finishing, cos its made in China.”,
“are you sure you want to buy this candy? Its made in china, better not”,
“oh my god, the free bag given by <can’t mention names> company broke into several pieces after 3 days of usage, must be made in china, so cheapskate!”.
If you are interested to read more, here are some links I read on this baby milk scandal:-
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/china_loses_face_and_babies/
http://www.hibeijing2008.com/san-lu-contaminated-milk-powder-issue.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/fury-as-china-baby-milk-scandal-escalates-934993.html
http://www.ava.gov.sg/ (AVA Singapore has issued a consumer advisory on diary products, make sure you check it out if you are staying in SIngapore)
I especially like the phrase created by the chinese webizens: Foreign milk costs money, domestic milk costs lives! – This is my title for this post.
- Sweetietots
