Friday, November 27, 2009

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The Story Behind China's Tainted Milk Scandal

Company feared going public with information as thousands of children were sickened

Posted October 9, 2008
A mother and a father hold their babies as they wait for treatment in a children's hospital in Beijing during China's toxic milk scandal.BEIJING
A mother and a father hold their babies as they wait for treatment in a children's hospital in Beijing during China's toxic milk scandal.

"This is how they do things," he says. "But it lets problems fester longer than they should."

Reader Comments

Confusion worse confounded

It seems samilar crisis happening in other industry. You can tell how angry Chinese common people are about it. It is really sad when we heared about these kind of news abroad. Chinese people are not suprised about it but feel sorry for the victim. Who is the next? Saving face can not last forever.Culture difference and saving face are really the big execuses and not responsible at all.

China wake up, nothing can be perfect, but at least there is the bottom line for moral. Acting like this will not benefit for the next generation. Making any efforts to save face is so negtive.

We really wish the situation is getting better.

Well this world sucks .

And everytime a crisis happens everyone's fingers point in different directions to place blame on everyone but themselves. It happened here on Wallstreet and now in China with powdered milk. maybe there is a conspiracy in both cases, its(always) hard to see though the blame games to get to the truth. But I suppose thats intentional too. Can we as humans get something right?

tainted products

the whole problem is in the greed of business men all over the world who put profits before their country. Here in North Carolina the grandfathers and fathers who built fortunes and strong prosperous business on the backs of the people from the 20's through the 70's in furniture, clothing, fabrics and hosiery put their money back into the country.When the internet came along and made contact with the whole world easier the sons of those men found they could exploit cheap labor and bypass the unions.They inherited the businesses sold the machines and know how to countries like China and India and headed for the Bahamas to spend their fathers and grandfathers fortunes.Now they import the junk back here and sell it at the same prices they would have gotten for union made goods.In the auto industry GM. Ford And Chrysler sat on their ass and made sorry cars during the late 70,s and 80's and people found that the cheap cars being unloaded over here were better cars.The grandchildren sold our industrial strength and jobs out. These are the same ones now demanding more from the government in bailouts.I am 71 years old and these young bastards know that I am right and we got one now educated at Harvard with money provided by Arabs that will probably be your next president.He is lying to you but you can not see it because of the protection being given to him by the Liberal media.

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