Thread: China: Tainted Milk Activist Jailed

Mmm...

Nice lot those Chinese. I'm tempted to say something about the benefits or not of the sinoThais taking over, but...

a lil insight into how they deal with the average joe.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Mmm...

Nice lot those Chinese. I'm tempted to say something about the benefits or not of the sinoThais taking over, but...

Just let this be a reminder....never buck the system of establishment. They exist only to perpetuate themselves and protect themselves accordingly. This might be the only true human trait that is universally common. The struggle is never-ending.

I'll bet they jailed him NOT because he banged the drum loudly about the scandal, but because he led a campaign for compensation from the companies that produced the milk and the authorities for lax inspection.

The government was sending a message to companies that they will rein in their people and not allow them to 'make compensation demands.'

Typical Asian authoratarianism.

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

I'll bet they jailed him NOT because he banged the drum loudly about the scandal, but because he led a campaign for compensation from the companies that produced the milk and the authorities for lax inspection.

The government was sending a message to companies that they will rein in their people and not allow them to 'make compensation demands.'

Typical Asian authoratarianism.

These practices don't just escape Asia, as it is the way of the world. Governments and corporations work in unison to protect and expand on one another. Benito Mussolini define it perfectly. Corporatism. It's how everything works today. Can't hide from the control and suppression. It's not just Asian Despotism, but is the most integral aspect of our pathetic existence. It's even more so in "our" beloved West. Most are just blind to it - conditioned well.

China milk activist 'force-fed on hunger strike'
Apr 7, 2011


File photo of Zhao Lianhai (centre) speaks to journalists in China's Hebei province in 2009. Speaking out for the first time since his release, Mr Zhao said he was force fed through the nose with China-produced milk while on hunger strike.
PHOTO: AP

HONG KONG - A CHINESE father who was jailed after campaigning for victims of a tainted milk scandal said he was force-fed China-made milk powder while on hunger strike, a report said on Thursday.

Zhao Lianhai, whose child was one of 300,000 made ill by milk tainted with the industrial chemical melamine in 2008, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison last November but freed a month later on medical parole.

Speaking out for the first time since his release, Mr Zhao said he was force fed through the nose with China-produced milk while on hunger strike to protest against his sentence.

'They used mainland-produced milk powder during the first force feeding. I threw up for half an hour after I returned to my cell,' the 38-year-old activist told the South China Morning Post.

Mr Zhao said the authorities approached him on the sixth day of his hunger strike in efforts to persuade him to eat in return for early release on medical parole.

'I thought I should grab this victory - being released in 12 days,' he told the newspaper, adding 'finally when everything was agreed, they asked me to give up my appeal and confess'.

straitstimes.com

see also : https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asi...-melamine.html (China : Melamine)

Ai Weiwei creates giant map of China from baby formula
17 May 2013

A map of China made from more than 1,800 cans of baby formula created by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei went on show in Hong Kong Friday, reflecting the controversy over mainland demand for milk powder.


Chinese artist Ai Weiwei answers journalists questions during a press conference in Beijing, on October 15, 2009. A map of China made from more than 1,800 cans of baby formula created by Ai has gone on show in Hong Kong, reflecting the controversy over mainland demand for milk powder.

A surge in demand for formula in China sparked by fears over the safety of domestic milk powder has seen shop shelves around the world cleared out by Chinese buyers and unofficial exporters.

The Ai Weiwei exhibit entitled 'Baby Formula 2013' uses 1,815 full cans of seven brands of milk powder and covers a 10-metre by 8-metre floor space.

"The piece is related to several problems," Ai Weiwei told AFP on Friday.

"One is the recent ban on mainland residents buying milk powder and bringing it back to China, and then there is the issue of why Chinese mainlanders go to Hong Kong to buy milk powder."

In Hong Kong, anger about visitor purchases saw the city ban travellers taking out more than 1.8 kilograms of formula from March 1 this year. Banners at the border warn of HK$500,000 (US$64,000) fines and two-year jail sentences for offenders.

Demand from the mainland is driven by memories of a 2008 scandal over Chinese formula tainted with the industrial chemical melamine which killed six children and affected more than 300,000 others.

Distrust grew last year when another domestic manufacturer's formula was found to be contaminated with carcinogens, despite official pledges to clean up the industry.

"We know that on the mainland food safety is a very serious problem. It largely related to a lack of supervision and moral decay within industry," said Ai.

"Hong Kong people make profits from these problems, and are also victims," he added.

Executive director of the Para Site art space Cosmin Costinas, which is hosting the installation as part of a wider exhibition and has collaborated with Ai in the past, told AFP that all the cans of milk powder in the exhibit had been bought in Hong Kong.

There will be no extra security to stop them being stolen, he said.

In Australia, Chinese customers have been blamed for a shortage of formula in supermarkets and pharmacies, causing some outlets to ration sales, with limits also imposed in Europe after a run on baby milk powder.

China is "by far" the world's largest market for formula, says consumer research group Euromonitor. Breastfeeding rates are low -- just 28 percent according to a 2012 UNICEF report -- due to time limits on maternity leave and aggressive marketing of formula.

bangkokpost.com