700 Tons of Chinese Baby Formula Tainted with Melamine
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So far 53,000 children have been sickened from tainted baby formula in China. Not surprisingly, it’s got a lot of people feeling pretty scared.
I stayed with my Shanghainese friend and her family this past weekend. She graduated from Fudan last year and is now preparing to apply to schools in London. Weiwei is Shanghainese through and through, but she seems pretty set on leaving China lately, especially after this milk scandal.
“My friend paid a lot of money to immigrate to the USA,” Weiwei said. “They said I should too… You know about the milk and how many babies got sick?”
What she was getting at was her feelings toward China’s food safety. I’ve been realizing that there’s a great amount of pride and love for this country, but there is also a sense of distrust. A feeling that things are not safe, that people who should be protecting them are careless and apathetic to the wellbeing of their own countrymen. Even though China is developing in many ways and succeeding in its own right, people here are angered, impatient at the fact that things can be, and should be, better.
