By: Cara Anna----- Aleyna Castillo 9/26/2008
Would you have ever thought that baby formula could be deadly? Well in China, there have been reports of “tainted milk-powder formula” some of which has made babies very ill or even dead. The substance “melamine” is what has been found harmful in this baby formula. “More than 54,000 children have been sickened by tainted milk products so far. Four deaths have been blamed on the products.´ The World Health Organization is declaring that mothers should breast feed their babies, that is the best option. However, many mothers are forced to leave their children with grandparents or other family, and work in the cities. Its not that they don’t want to breast feed, they just have to make money, and formula is just easier. Because it is being stressed, some Chinese women are selling or offering to share breast milk with other families. “The tainted milk crisis has driven Chinese worried mothers of every income to find alternatives to milk powder, with wet nurses becoming popular again. But that's a solution left mostly to the wealthy.”
I think that this is very sad. Because these women have to work, they have to worry about how they are going to feed their children. I think that they need to come up with a better, safer, tested powder formula to make life easier on these women. Since watching that movie on workers in class, my whole attitude about Chinese workers has changed, and my heart goes out to them. Whatever is going to be the best solution to this problem needs to happen.
Cited From: http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=5886206&page=4
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