Much has been said and written about this milk scare and my words may not really make a huge impact anymore but I am one of those people tremendously affected by it.
No, I am neither Chinese nor a super fan of their products but I am a milk drinker. My good Mom trained me to start drinking my milk using a glass instead of a bottle months before she sent me off to school for the first time, when I was about 4 and since then, drinking milk twice a day (morning and night) has been a habit so hard to break.
When news spread across the globe about having found melamine substance on milk products, I freaked out. Without further checking facts just yet, my imagination went wild and I find it very difficult to cross out drinking milk on my everyday's to do list. The feeling was almost akin to losing someone really close. I know, that is an exaggeration but trust me, drinking milk is like breathing to me. Told you, a habit that is so hard to break.
Now the world is staring at China again, only this time we're no longer amazed. Read the newspaper everyday - aside from articles about the upcoming US elections and Philippines politicking crap, you'd find an article or two about this milk scare. And for the love of milk, my limited mind could not really comprehend why on good Earth will someone include such a substance on milk products knowing that its not supposed to be there in the first effing place? Have we become too greedy about profit now that we've lost our sense of humanity? That we've stopped caring at all?
What makes this even more maddening for me is that most of the reported casualties are kids - 53,000 children got sick and 4 died. Haay. Sad and really maddening at the same time.
Please don't get me wrong, I am neither trying to be self-righteous here nor putting them down. What I am just pointing out is, aside from this being a selfish ranting of a heavy milk drinker - while we're all busy making a living, I hope that we're not trying to advance ourselves at the expense of other people.
By the way, I was only relieved from hysteria when Pura Fresh Milk, Anchor and Bear Brand made to the safe list.
