Chinese Starbucks Wary of Bad Milk (信用ならないミルクに慎重な中国のスターバックス)

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:24:00
NTDTV

STORY:

The Chinese regime's milk scandal continues to escalate. Starbucks Corp said on Thursday that its 300-plus cafes in mainland China have stopped using milk supplied by Mengniu Dairy, one of the companies whose product has tested positive for melamine contamination.

Starbucks says that no employees or customers were sickened by the milk.

In a statement, Starbucks says it removed the milk from supplies voluntarily after it learned that Mengniu had confirmed that certain lots of its liquid milk were tainted. The company is working to find alternate milk suppliers.

Three infants have died and more than 6,000 fallen ill in China's mounting toxic milk scandal.

Zhao Qin, who works in psychotherapy and has a child aged 11, says for mothers like her, there are concerns beyond the milk powder.

[Zhao Qin, Mother]:

"Of course I'm worried. It's not just milk powder, there are other things too. When we eat out, the cooking oil, and the hygiene in the restaurants. We have to pay attention to all of these things."

And China's online community is also reacting to the milk scandal. Fed up with constant bad news some are taking out their frustrations with biting jokes on the internet.

One online joke uses photographs with speech bubbles to satirize the endless chain of blame that passes all the way from officials at Sanlu, the milk powder company that was first found to contain melamine, right down to the grass eaten by the cow, each declaring their innocence in the scandal.

Over the past few years the safety of products--from Chinese-made car parts and toys to pet food and dumplings--has been called into question. And even heavy internet surveillance has failed to stop satire and humor being posted across the Internet.

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• 台湾
• 韓国
• 粉ミルク
• 汚染
• スターバックス
• 蒙牛乳業
• CHINA
• TAIWAN
• KOREA
• Chinese
• Milk
• Powder
• Sanlu
• Group
• Starbucks
• Mengniu

[MitchJessBrooke1]

hahahahaha. thats china for ya

[seka1986]

This is only the tip of the poisoned Chinese iceberg. As long as China has no standards and no conscience this will happen again and again. They can launch their satellites and create the Olympic illusion but they will always be a backwards nation without standards or conscience.