Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Kai is safe from the tainted infant formula scandal in China

It was a shocking news for the world, and for everyone around me. We couldn’t believe that such things could ever happen. How can the offenders ever think of making money by causing suffering of small babies?!

When it comes to the government, my reaction is that such things should not happen in the first place. Especially the action of covering up the issue till the Olympics was over, I feel, it’s typical for Chinese government. Who cares how many medals China has won? In comparision to thousand babies’ life and health, the glory is nothing. I really feel shamed for the government. However, the recall of tainted milk powder, the punishment to related officials, is proper, but it comes to late. The government is doing better than we thought, but still not enough. I hope, through the lessen of this scandal, the government should really do decent work to improve the people’s life.

We feel lucky that Kai wasn’t affected. We have been using imported milk powder on the Chinese market, as many other families who are a bit better off than some. When the day comes, when all the people in China, no matter poor or rich, feel safe about what they are eating, we should say we learned today’s lesson well.

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