Douche Bags Of The Week: Greedy Chinese Milkmen

The official count is up to around 13,000 babies sickened by the melamine that some Chinese dairy producers added to watered down milk products in order to increase the perceived protein levels in testing.

[Sarcasm ahead.]

Less actual milk at the same price means more profit. Who cares if you have to poison the food supply to make some money? Now that the Chinese have been welcomed into the wonderful world of capitalism and greed, they need to learn a new phrase, "Let the buyer beware." I mean, these babies should have known better than to drink contaminated milk. They deserve to be sick with their reckless drinking and lack of informed research!

Sourced from an article in The New York Times:

China’s milk scandal worsened again as the government announced that the number of infants sickened by contaminated baby formula had risen to nearly 13,000, most 2 years old or younger, more than double the previous tally in the nationwide food safety crisis. At least three infants have died from kidney problems linked to the industrial additive melamine.

The Ministry of Health traced most cases to tainted formula produced by the Sanlu Group, the giant dairy producer whose formula has been recalled because of contamination.

Then officials announced that traces of melamine had also been discovered in some samples of liquid milk, including some produced by the country’s leading dairy producers. All tainted dairy products were then ordered off store shelves, and officials have announced many arrests.

Last year, thousands of pets in the U.S. were sickened from food made with Chinese feed laced with melamine. At the time, officials issued regulations banning the use of melamine in food products. Melamine, high in nitrogen, is used to make plastics and fertilizers, but it can be used illegally to artificially inflate protein levels in milk or other foods.

As I have discussed here on this blog, I've had some serious battles with kidney stones. I can say I've won them all, but when you are going through that level of pain, sometimes the outcome isn't so clear. I feel so sorry for these babies.

People who profit at the expense of others, particularly the health of babies, are this week's Douche Bags of the Week. [And who said government regulation is bad?]