September 19th 2008
China Uncovered: The Milk Scandal
L
ost in all the glossy Olympics hoopla is the fact that China is a sick, sick country, where fast economic growth combines with a lack of Western values and sound courts. And lost (nearly) in the economic and election news of the last week is the Chinese milk scandal, the latest disaster in this country of ethical (not just earthquake) disasters.
So far, milk tainted with melamine has killed four infants and sickened 6,200 – in just the last week. Of those 6,200 babies, 1,300 babies are in hospitals and 158 have acute kidney failure.
What, pray tell, is melamine and why would you put it in milk?
The scandal began with complaints over milk powder by Sanlu Group Co. — one of China’s best-known and most respected brands. But it quickly became a much larger problem as government tests found that one-fifth of the companies producing baby milk powder had melamine in their products.
Melamine is a toxic industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones and lead to kidney failure. It has no nutritional value but is high in nitrogen, making products with it appear higher in protein. Suppliers trying to cut costs are believed to have added it to watered-down milk to cover up the resulting protein deficiency. (source)
And now there are reports that the Chinese government was aware of the scandal before the Olympics, but covered it up – at the cost of infants’ lives – in order to keep, as they say, the lipstick on the pig.
First they killed the school kids with substandard construction in schools. Now they’re killing the newborns with lax or non-existent oversight of food production.
Deprived of Judeo-Christian morals and used to absolute, state-first, people-second power, the Beijingoists have a lot to learn about being decent human beings. And with a huge army on their side and no free elections, they have little motivation to learn. As such, today China is the global symbol of the evil of greed and power.
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September 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
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