Leather Milk Surfaces Again in
Apr 1, 2011
When a nation and
people become evil in the eyes of the Lord God’s vengeance comes and tears at
that nation from within and without.
Following the melamine-tainted milk scandal, 'leather milk,' was recently
discovered in
For
years Chinese dairy producers have been making trips to the local tannery,
collecting the chemical scraps left over from the leather softening process,
putting it into milk, and thereby boosting the milk’s protein content as
measured in tests.
But the chemicals they are adding—hydrolyzed leather proteins, sodium and
potassium dichromate, the chemical hexavalent
chromium (CrVI)—cause cancer.
The toxic milk has been dubbed “leather milk.” The most vulnerable victims are
infants.
The issue had been reported as early as 2005, but recent reports in the
Chinese media, along with high-profile denials by the Communist Party that
there were any problems, brought it to light again.
Zhejiang Metropolitan Daily reported that five out of eight batches of dairy
drinks from Chenyuan Dairy Co., Ltd. in
Hong Kong’s Wenweipo reported as early as 2005 that
at least 200 diary factories in
Xinhua
reported in July 2005 that in
In March 2009 a site inspection of Chenyuan Diary Co., Ltd. revealed three 20 kg bags of
leather hydrolyzed protein, along with 1,300 boxes of tainted dairy products.
Similar cases were also reported in
China State Council Food Safety Administration issued a notice on Feb. 13 that
since July 2010 they have uncovered 40 illegal dairy product manufacturing and sales facilities. A total of 2,131
tons of tainted milk powder were confiscated.
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Wang Xiaofeng,
a
Social
System Broken
Dishonest traders often
add water to milk. The milk is thereby diluted and cannot pass nutrition
analysis tests because of reduced protein content. Substances are then added to
ensure an acceptable protein level.
Xinmin Weekly once quoted a dairy industry insider
saying that a ton of protein hydrolysate costs 1,000 yuan. The cost of producing one ton of milk
powder—including fresh milk, labor, water, and electricity—is at least 20,000 yuan. However, if protein hydrolysate
was added the cost can drop down to 4,000 or 5,000 yuan.
Milk is mostly consumed by children and is the only source of nutrition for
infants. The devastating consequences of a previous scandal, in 2008, involving
the chemical melamine, caused at least six painful deaths due to kidney stones,
and left millions of young children sick, with potential future health
problems.
At that time Communist Party authorities covered up the poisonings until the
Olympic Games were over.
Professor Guo Yuhua from Tsinghua University
Department of Sociology says it’s a problem of
“This is a society
where people are poisoning each other,” Guo told
Guo said the
social environment in China is rapidly deteriorating, with the deterioration
starting at the top with different professions each having their own ways to
benefit themselves by hurting others.
“There is no trust in society, and honest people usually are at a
disadvantage,” Guo said.
Former head of Guangdong Diary Industry Association, Wang Dingmin,
told Xinmin Weekly: “The technology used for the fake
products can only come from experts. Many people specifically research and
develop this sort of technology and sell it to others. Eventually it spreads
all over.”
“Milk is milk. It should not contain anything else,” Chen said.
Parents
Disheartened
Some victims
of melamine-tinted milk powder said they have heard about the “leather milk”
before. They say that the Communist Party only creates new inspection rules
after there is a brouhaha about it, and that they do not proactively take steps
to protect the interests of consumers.
They also complain about the lack of transparency. Jiang Yalin’s
child fell sick from drinking melamine-tainted powdered milk. Now she wants to
know more about how the inspections are actually done.
“They only talk about inspection, but do not tell us how much ‘leather milk’ has been found. They don’t want to tell us what the damage could be and
how bad it can get. When the damage is too big to hide, they make a new
policy,” Jiang said.
Regime
the Real Problem
Dr. David Gao
is the president of the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP; he is also
the former first Dean of the College of Light Industry & Food Science, of
South China University of
Technology in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and now a senior food scientist
with a health food company in the U.S.
Gao told The Epoch Times in an email that people
don’t matter to the Chinese Communist Party.
“Fake and toxic foods are flooding
“The regime is the real cause of broken
civil society in
In a Monarchy the king, the royal family and their cadre of dukes lords and
earls all blue bloods have historically enjoyed such powers. By the mid 1800’s
all the royal families in Europe through excessive intermarriage, and having
been raised and lived their lives devoid of any work or duties of the common
man became weak sickly and a symbol of excess.
Napoleon in
Communism represents a new type of Monarchy, a monarchy of revolutionaries
becoming its leaders and its dukes lords and earls are communist party bureaucrats
put in charge of towns cities locals and different portions of industry, and
the military. In communism there are no
coups so that when the people riot and rebel they are ruthlessly crushed by the
military and their leaders disappear.
In \Communism the people are deprived of virtually everything and as a
reward receive meager foodstuffs clothing and a Spartan apartment, which upon
displeasing the state or upon death are loaned then to someone else. So that instead of a workers paradise people
work for the state to be able to live, and when they are broken they are unceremoniously
replaced as any gear of cog would be in a piece of machinery.
Communist rule consists of a many armed machine that has direct control of
all key form of industry and commerce, of education, down to controlling almost
every aspect of the state’s slave population.
In communism the state become the people’s focus of veneration and
service.
The CCP’s efforts over the years to debase and
destroy traditional moral values, and the ongoing persecutions of people of
faith and conviction, have also contributed to the downward trend, he said.
“All of this has had the effect of terrorizing and dehumanizing civil society.
Chinese people are paying a very heavy price,” he said. “Systemic corruption
from the top down is pervasive. People will do anything for money if they think they can get away with it.
They don’t care if it hurts anyone.”