DEHP contamination

There is a recent food scandal in taiwan regarding the use of plasticizer DEHP in place of palm oil as a cheaper alternative. DEHP has many effects, which includes affecting hormones in children. These people are trying to earn more profit and yet they give excuses for these illegal usage of harmful chemicals, such as palm oil being short-lived and gave off a badd odor afterr a while. Would all these food be better off being short lived and having a bad odor, or having chemicals that destroy humans?

All these food were actually made and allowed to be produced by them. They said that since the clouding agents sector only consist of a small part of these large chemical companies, they would not use all these unsafe chemicals. However, the authorities have confirmed that these clouding agents are unsafe. So are lives or money more important to them?

Food and Us

I have read an article which states something that we, some of the people in the world, fail to recognise. People often take for granted what they eat and drink everyday. They always take it for granted that they will have food forever. What they fail to recognise is that as humanity progress, greed starts to develop. That is when we taking food for granted becomes harder as greed, and the other multitude of emotions decides to take advantage of this. Counterfeits such as dyed egg and melamine milk starts to be produced to lower cost for more profit but creates bigger health risk to the humans.

After all these different kinds of problems regarding the food we eat, how will we be able to eat without considering that the food we are eating might not be real food, but food made up of dangerous chemicals. Would we have to bring a food testing machines everywhere we go and not even be able to eat without any worries that this would be a meal full of poison and chemicals?

http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/food-policy-regulation/of-recycled-buns-food-safety-in-china-and-the-jabberwocky-of-political-debate/

E.coli Outbreak

The E.coli virus has many different strains, some harmless, others fatal. This rather potent strain of E.coli, however, has caused over 38 to die as of now, mostly within Germany which is believed to be the source of the infection. Most of the victims had recently travelled to Hamburg, Germany. The start of this infection is claimed by the German Government to originate from sprouts grown in a farm in Hamburg. At the start of this outbreak, The German Agricultral Minister had attributed the start of this outbreak to Spanish Cucumber after testing positive for the E.coli virus, resulting in a loss of sale of over 200million euros for the Spanish farmers. I believe that even though these virus mainly affects the victim and these farmers, there are also other indirect effects of all the different outbreaks. I have just read about this article on a journal which i have recently posted about how we trust the supplier of foods with our life and that this trust is being chipped off slowly by all these food scares and virus outbreaks, which makes people disheartened with our own food suppliers and the effect of that would be that human would not even be able to rely on one of their neccessities as the trust of the other neccesities get chipped off and slowly, humanity loses itself.