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Human Lives Are at Stake - Reflections on Toxic Milk Powder
By Gu Feng
(Clearwisdom.net) China's tainted milk scandal has resulted in the deaths
of an unknown number of children, and the Chinese people are seething with
anger. Fresh and powdered milk produced by over 20 dairy producers in China has
been tested and found to contain the toxic chemical melamine. Melamine, a
"false protein," is mixed into milk so that producers can secretly
dilute the milk with water. Melamine causes the resultant product to test as
having a high protein content, fooling inspectors into believing that the
tainted milk is the real thing. It seems that many producers and many brand names are involved, and that the
adulteration may have gone on for many years. Widespread sickness, injury, and
even death has been the result. What has China's government been doing to
protect the people as a result? What have milk producers and industry watchdogs
been doing? Why have they all turned a blind eye and kept silent? Why does it
take a foreign country--that had long ago detected the toxic milk powder--to
publicize their findings to the Chinese people? Why did the Chinese government
still cover it up and keep everyone, including the world's people, in the dark?
This is a matter of life and death that puts human lives at risk! What could
possibly be more important? Some may say, "Well, you don't need to make a fuss about it. It is only
that a bit too much melamine was added this time." (According to recent
government regulations, the acceptable ratio for melamine is 1 kg of milk
powder/0.3 mg melamine, but some dairy products are found to contain as much as
6000 mg melamine per 1kg of milk powder.) CCTV, the communist regime's shameless propaganda mouthpiece, claims,
"The children who suffer from kidney stones will get better by drinking
more water, and kidney failure can be reversed this way as well." Some
people have even gone so far as to say, "What's all the fuss about a few
deaths? It's inevitable that we would experience some problems during China's
economic development." Should economic development come at the cost of human suffering and death?
Should economic development encourage deception that leads to deaths? Not at
all! Only the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views harming and killing people as
an "inevitable" price to pay for economic development. China needs economic development to improve people's living standards. To
accomplish this, however, the communist regime has taken a dishonorable path.
The regime only talks about China's economic development and making money while
totally ignoring reforms needed in its own political system. Because of the
"slick" and underhanded approach that the regime uses, people's minds
have degenerated, and falsehoods, wickedness, ugliness, poison, evilness, and
immoral conduct are rampant everywhere. This is the fundamental cause for the
crisis of counterfeit products and the cause of many innocent people's deaths
taking place in China. Looking back in history, it's not hard to see that the Communist Party is an
arch criminal working actively against human rights. Ever since it imposed
itself upon China, it has never lacked the courage to kill people. From the
"Land Reform" to the "Three Anti's Campaign" and "The
Five Anti's Campaign," from the "Anti Rightists" movement to the
"Cultural Revolution," the Party has murdered countless people, but it
has shown not one second of remorse in its bloody history. The fact that the Party is callously indifferent to the deadly impact of the
toxic milk powder is simply a reflection of its sadistic nature that does not
flinch at causing death. Thousands of students were slaughtered in the 1989
Tianamen Square Massacre, crushed by army tanks and cut down by CCP soldiers. Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death over the
past nine years of persecution. Organ harvesting atrocities abound, where organs
are extracted from living Falun Gong practitioners, custom killed for their
hearts, livers and lungs. Many other practitioners were arrested and executed
after they dared to visit government offices to appeal for justice. The regime also covered up the spread of "SARS," thereby causing
many unnecessary tragic deaths. It also withheld from the public the prediction
of the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province, directly causing the deaths of
over 100,000 people and the injuries of hundreds of thousands more. Still, the
regime shows absolutely no remorse. The Communist regime crushed and gunned down hundreds, or perhaps even
thousands of students in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but told the Chinese
people that it had simply "subdued rioters." Propaganda hides the
truth and disguises the Party's true evil nature. In the persecution of Falun
Gong, the CCP has again continued to fabricate lies and stir up hatred to
confuse and deceive people. With regard to the massive earthquake in Sichuan Province earlier this year,
the regime mentioned nothing about their withholding of information from the
people. Instead, it shouted loud slogans about "fighting the
earthquake" and providing disaster relief! This time, in its handling of
the toxic milk powder scandal, the regime once again restricted information
released to the public, this time in the name of having a "peaceful Olympic
Games." In the past decade of economic reform, the regime has focused on nothing but
making money at any cost. Officials at every level angle for money. Those in
power engage in embezzlement and corruption. Top officials take the lead in this
behavior, and their subordinates follow suit. How can falsehood not prevail
everywhere in China? And are we surprised that poison appears everywhere in
China? Only by breaking away from the CCP, withdrawing from it, disintegrating it,
distancing themselves from it, and keeping far away from its web of lies,
evilness, and ugliness can people protect themselves from being harmed and
deceived, and only then will people truly live and work in peace and
contentment, at last able to enjoy happiness and good fortune! October 12, 2008 |