In the ever growing scandal that is the Chinese milk powder incidents, it appears that one of the food manufacturing giants Cadbury is now also being drawn into it. An article appeared today in the newspaper where a recall of one of their chocolate eclair products being sold in Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan is happening due to confirmed contamination with melamine. Melamine, if you haven't actually looked into this scandal of epic proportions is quite an interesting compound because it is listed as being a low toxicitiy, with 3g/kg of body weight for an LD50. When you consder this normally, it would mean for an adult male of average weight (80kg), you'd nee to be consuming about 240g of the stuff for 50% of the people eating it to die. 240g is a lot in most powdered forms so you'd kind of not expect that to be a problem unless they were depressed etc.
However, if you consider that on a baby, where the weight categories is more along the 3-10kg range, that's only 9g-30g of powder, and when it is mixed with milk powder and drank through bottle on a regular basis (since babies feed like a lot each day)... it is not surprising to hear then of 50 000 babies being sick with unknown numbers dying...
So where exactly do these people get off on their money grubbing behaviour? What has ever happened to morally correct and ethically upstanding business practices? How has society, theirs specifically, degenerated to this point where to make a quick buck, they would cause so much grief, anguish and upheaval to their country and the world?
China has had a long standing problem with this moral bankruptcy of theirs. Recent events of poisoned pork buns, dumplings, high pesticide contents in rice, fake foods and other dodge behaviour. Throw in their human rights record, and other things... it really is a country that has some serious issues to contend with before they can garner the honest respect of people. It is no surprise then of course that there is so much stereotyping that is negative about Chinese peoples (mainlanders) which those who are either not mainlanders, or ex-patriots from a long time ago hate being lumped in with them. A friend of mine recently said that they were glad to be out of the country and with citizenship of another, because that kind of behaviour is abhorrent.
Well, it was also said to me, since they have the one child/family policy... if the melamine issue knocks off a lot of children... there is going to be some serious repercussions in the community...
Come on people, have a little respect, for yourself, for your actions, for other people and their lives. Be responsible, make your home, your country a better place, and then we might all get along better.
However, if you consider that on a baby, where the weight categories is more along the 3-10kg range, that's only 9g-30g of powder, and when it is mixed with milk powder and drank through bottle on a regular basis (since babies feed like a lot each day)... it is not surprising to hear then of 50 000 babies being sick with unknown numbers dying...
So where exactly do these people get off on their money grubbing behaviour? What has ever happened to morally correct and ethically upstanding business practices? How has society, theirs specifically, degenerated to this point where to make a quick buck, they would cause so much grief, anguish and upheaval to their country and the world?
China has had a long standing problem with this moral bankruptcy of theirs. Recent events of poisoned pork buns, dumplings, high pesticide contents in rice, fake foods and other dodge behaviour. Throw in their human rights record, and other things... it really is a country that has some serious issues to contend with before they can garner the honest respect of people. It is no surprise then of course that there is so much stereotyping that is negative about Chinese peoples (mainlanders) which those who are either not mainlanders, or ex-patriots from a long time ago hate being lumped in with them. A friend of mine recently said that they were glad to be out of the country and with citizenship of another, because that kind of behaviour is abhorrent.
Well, it was also said to me, since they have the one child/family policy... if the melamine issue knocks off a lot of children... there is going to be some serious repercussions in the community...
Come on people, have a little respect, for yourself, for your actions, for other people and their lives. Be responsible, make your home, your country a better place, and then we might all get along better.
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