It is almost two weeks since the Chinese tainted baby formula scandal broke out. Up till now, more than 13 000 children have been hospitalized while over 530 000 are sickened with kidney ailments. So far, four babies have died. The world is now very concerned about all milk products and byproducts imported from China; the scandal has triggered import bans and recalls worldwide. It is not the Chinese government’s first time causing global attention to its food safety issues. Not long ago, in year 2004, 13 babies in eastern China died in the “Big headed babies” incident where milk powder was found containing little nutritional value; last year, it was found fish contaminated with banned drugs, toothpaste and cough syrup made with toxic chemicals made in China. All these incidents have caused the global world to lose confidence in Chinese imported products and have also damaged the Chinese food manufacturers’ image.
Reading all the negative news surrounding China, some may think that the Chinese must be very careless and thoughtless about their manufactured goods. Yet, amid of the tainted milk scandal, the China National Space Administration launched the spaceship Shenzhou VII few days ago, where the first Chinese man set foot in space. The success of the space project proves that the Chinese is able to work in a very precise manner and the Chinese technological advance is no doubt in quick progress. This leads me to wonder why the Chinese can’t apply the same attitude in launching a spaceship to manufacturing its food products. Isn’t controlling the milk content a lot simpler than launching a spaceship?
Yet, what lies between is the moral status of the people. The milk producers, knowing the serious consequences of adding the toxic chemical melamine to milk, only cared about their economic profit at the risk of millions babies’ health. This reflects that the people have very poor moral standards and little knowledge in work ethics.
In China, a rapidly developing country, I believe moral education is desperately needed in order for the country to develop healthily. If China could launch the Shenzhou VII successfully, producing a pure, natural and nutritional cup of milk should be MEI WEN TI (no problem)!
3 comments:
I agree with you, if they can launch a billion dollar spaceship, they can find a way to fix the dairy problem. OLympics was a success, so they should be able to come up with something successful too. No more developing China, soon it will be developed.
Yeah...I agreed with you=] I think after all these horrible food that were produced in China during the last few year, people will start to lost their confidence with the products that are produce in China. I think the government should have stricter laws and regulations for the products they produce before selling them. People might think of many different ways to earn as much money as they can. Just like what happen now, putting toxic into our food just to have a higher profit without caring about others. I think if China rebuilt their reputation by producing safe and trustable products they will for sure earn more money and the first thing that comes to people mind will not be the country that produce "fake" stuff.
I agree with you. It is embarrassing that Chinese producers are still producing goods that hurt their customers, and this time, its kids. We ought to take into account that China is a developing country, but poisoning kids is not acceptable. It is a proud moment that China can be the third country in the world to have ever send a man into space (and come back OK), but has that pride been overcast by this embarrassing melamine incident?
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