No Use Crying Over Spoiled Milk
Posted by MyLaowai on Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Damn the man! I’ve no sooner finished writing a post on dairy products, when I notice that ImageThief has gone and done it better.
I’d suggest that you go here and read it instead. Bah! Humbug!
And as if that wasn’t bad enough, my second attempt ended up looking something like this (which I didn’t write at all):
This is yet another gross insult against China made by the international anti-China forces. They have health problems with food in other countries as well, so why can’t China also have them? Why are they only condemning China?
Will non-poisoned baby formula solve the health problem for babies? Adults who don’t drink milk powder also have kidney stones. Therefore, the western system of non-poisoned baby formula will not solve the problem of kidney stones.
Don’t forget that the baby formula industry has been in development overseas for almost a century whereas it has only been several decades for China. The baby formula industry in China has progressed continuously during this time. China cannot be expected to arrive at perfection immediately. Gradual steps are taken to reach the non-poisoned condition, as appropriate to the existing conditions in China.
Boycotting or opposing Sanlu can only make the Sanlu problem more complicated. We should use a dialogue approach where we keep communicating slowly even as we sip more Sanlu baby formula. Baby formula can develop only in a stable environment. If Sanlu collapses, the entire Chinese baby formula industry will be thrown into chaos and the western baby formula companies will take over China.
The history of baby formula in other nations showed that they all went through a gradual purification process to transition from a number of complicated impure baby formula to a perfect unpoisoned one. The idea that the Chinese people should be able to have healthy and unpoisoned baby formula instantaneously from the start is actually a huge western conspiracy to destroy the Chinese baby formula industry. The Chinese baby formula industry is still young and fragile. It will take some time for Chinese baby formula not to be poisoned. If the western standards are adopted, it will take more than a year just to recall the 7,000 tons of poisoned baby power. How can the Chinese baby formula industry progress under those circumstances?
The western baby formula companies grew to be very big before they began to recall bad products. Do you think that Sanlu does not want the Chinese people to have good baby formula? Their problem is that this is not yet feasible at this time. The Chinese people should keep the big picture in mind. They should drink poisoned baby formula for a few decades and sacrifice one or two generations of people until Sanlu grows big enough to challenge the western companies. Then Sanlu can gradually produce unpoisoned baby formula for infants, assuming there are any infants still alive.
The situation in the east is different from the west, and the quality of the peoples are different. China absolutely cannot unconditionally take to drinking the western-style unpoisoned baby formula. The western world is less populous, and they have enough baby formula to consume without adding poison. China has such a huge population that all the milk in all the cows in the world would not be enough to feed them with fully westernized pure baby formula. Therefore poison had to be added.
Although the Sanlu baby formula is poisoned, it was able to keep the hundreds of millions of Chinese infants from going hungry. Who else has accomplished so much in the history of mankind?
When the anti-China hostile forces boycott China’s Sanlu baby formula, the ultimate victims are the Chinese infants. We call for all Chinese patriots to unite and express our solidarity by drinking Sanlu baby formula in abundance.
If you are a Chinese person, you must support this declaration!
Damn and Blast! Pipped at the post. I’m off to get a Captain Morgan and Coke.
Neddy said
Have followed the story from the beginning. Yes, Imagethief sums it up nicely. Could not verify what I have read elsewhere, namely that according to Xinhua, the known total of sick babies now exceeds 6,000.
And I support the declaration, especially concerning Captain Morgan. But go easy on Coke, it’s tainted by too much water.
Neddy said
P.S.
I can find that 6200 figure in Straits Times only:
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_279487.html
but no further links.
BTW read also this in Sun Bin:
http://sun-bin.blogspot.com/2008/09/and-gold-medal-goes-to-score-2563mg.html