11/05/08 Tainted Milk

As if it wasn't bad enough already, the newest report on milk tainted with melamine in China is that the routine spiking of milk with illicit substances was nothing new and not a secret undertaking as the world was first led to believe. Farmers in China's milk industry say that the mystery "protein powder" has been in use for years in an effort to fool dairy companies' quality checks. The excuse being offered up by officials in China for this abhorrent practice is that "small scale dairy farmers are hard to police and few have the capital and know how to adhere to good dairy farming practices." Please, it doesn't take a mass amount of capital and experience to know right from wrong! The introducing of a chemical substance into the milk supply while knowing full well it poses great health risks to those who consume it is an obvious wrong in any language. Having been under intense scrutiny, China's milk industry leaders now say they expect that the use of melamine in milk has largely stopped. There is no margin for error here people! It has to stop, period. Your children are dying.