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i recall a conversation with a chinaman in a themed coffee house in a chic residential district in southern china. in a nutshell he proclaims that businessmen who cares abt anything but money will never be very successful.

if i may dissect what he said and apply his business anecdote to what happens in china, the dairy incident is really not so shocking.

afterall the concern is on the company’s bottomline, and the dude’s retirement plan in say, Singapore. He has denounced china as being impossible for one to enjoy life in. Too commercialised, too harsh, too contaminated, too much crime in the streets. (people who dont see the irony slapping them in the face will never reach the peak of the Maslow hierarchy.)

so to meet the demands of an increasing affluent and demanding economy, the corresponding incidents were reported, allegedly:

1. oils were filtered from sewers to be used for cooking in eateries

2. sewer caps were stolen and men in bicycles fell to their death

3. rotten watermelons were soaked in sugar-ed water and sold for consumption

and now melamine is added to milk products to increase its nutrition indicator in protein content. milk which is the staple baby food, drank by the gallons by growing young children, teenagers and adored by women with osteoporosis. businessmen made the business decision to put poison into a staple and pass it off as a protein enriched delight.

is capitalism in china the death of idealism?

Why are these businessmen so myopic in their vision?

Precious tainted food resources henced thrown away, wasted, the dairy food category forever disgraced.