Tainted foods; the term is not new for Asians. However, for many of us, we realized that the problem does persist after the allegations, made by U.S. targeted china. We see it everyday, but we remain ignored and that is the way it goes all around the world. We just assume that when chemicals are not being poured into out food right before our eyes, a situation like that can never exist. However, the truth is the other and sadly, the bad side.
The discovery of tainted food and china being the biggest market of such products may have shocked the other nations, the news is not new to us. Market conditions like hot weather, Lack of refrigeration, far off locations, improper equipments do contribute to such cases a lot. Producers often consider their profits high above the human life and thus end selling tainted products. They may not export such foods, but every Asian buyer knows that such products do exist in our local markets. As a fact, they are being purchased too, even if by the people belonging to the lower strata of the society.
Borax, the chemical found in things like detergent to fiberglass, is being used on a wide scale to preserve fish and meat in Indonesia. DDT has been banned, but still many of the farmers all around the world use it. The problem of tainted food doesn’t exist or restrict them to China alone, if we take a closer look; it exists all around the world. Whether it is street vendors selling ice creams, that use industrial dyes for the colors or farmers using banned substances to ensure a good crop production, tainted food exists at each level. Even most of the street food sold widely in Asia is tainted in one way or the other. But we still eat it and also relish it.
China may have been caught and targeted on the basis of tainted food production, but in reality the problem exists and persists everywhere.
Source: CBS13