Posted on 11/24/2023 4:53:46 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this day in 2009, Chinese citizens Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping were shot to death in connection with China’s tainted milk scandal.
The affair caused some 300,000 infants to became sick, six of them fatally. They were killed by powdered milk tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical used in plastics and fertilizer. Zhang, a dairy farmer from the province of Hebei, sold hundreds of tons of tainted milk powder in 2007 and 2008; he was the largest supplier. Geng supplied toxic milk to dairy companies.
The scandal was stupendous and made headlines all over the world. According to Time magazine, the tainted milk found its way to Taiwan, Singapore and Japan. China’s $232 million dairy export industry cratered as the European Union and a dozen nations in Asia and Africa banned Chinese milk and milk products. The farmers who depended on milk sales for their livelihood were reduced to simply pouring their surplus stock down the drain, and since nobody wanted to buy dairy cows under these conditions, some farmers just slaughtered their animals.....
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Kind of a white Tootsie Roll sort of thing, made with milk.
It was also melamine in tainted China-made dog kibble that killed so many American pets several years ago.
To this date, my Chinese wife will not buy Chinese dairy products because of that scandal.
The communist Chinese have a saying, “If you can cheat then cheat!”
And they do.
Sadly, fraud is rampant in China. There is a saying: “If you can cheat, cheat.” Ever aince Mao, the mentality of the country is essentially that.
They paint pigs black because the free-range, organically fed black pigs are worth more money as opposed to thr industrially-abused pigs throughout most of China; they paint chiles red to make them look more appealing, and they weigh down cardboard with water in order to get more money from the recyclers.
Human trash. They even steal items and good left for ancestors at shrines by others. That’s akin to stealing from the poor box.
If every chinese company or restaurant who adulterated food was executed, they’d have 20 people left to invade Taiwan.
The same with my Chinese wife.
I was in China when this was going on. I was watching a story on the news about this. In mid sentence, they broke to a commercial. When it returned to the news there was a different person. My wife said the newscaster said something that the government hadn’t approved.
I remember that.
Considering what I've heard about the tainted water used in fish farming and garlic growing, I won't buy any Chinese produced food.
We were in Hong Kong.
I’ve seen commercials interrupted with an emergency broadcast. Until then, I had never seen a newscast interrupted by a commercial. Dictatorships can do that.
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