Plastic unfantastic

Jun 21st 2011, 17:03

The recent scandal in Taiwan is too thrilled to be reported in many Taiwan’s newspapers and TV news. Avoiding annoying myself, I seldom watch such stupid and selfish articles or you can say all of what I see is only junk except SETTV(San-Li Television in Nei-Hu District, Taipei City) where the above Professor Hsu Yung-Ming talks about Taiwan’s politics. This topic is not the first about the toxic in Taiwan’s history. About ten years and twenty years ago, each in some county there were numerous product examined inclusive of bleach such as bottle, rice-box or sauce.

These product inclusive of plasticisers had been saled and purchased for not short time because of these two sides: first, the demanded standard in law was controlled and designed by few people such as the former Formosa Plastics’ Wang Yung-Ching at least decades ago with few people attentive eyes; second, many experts tolerate the making process’ middle product (plasticiser) of these toxic. The middle product in many situations, according to some chemical principles, would be washed away or transformed to other chemical compound until the mole per liter is under the theoretical line. The critical point is what these businessman don’t abide by these standards(and these are not strict to be safe) and then see these plasticiser as nothing except when Taiwan media’s reporters have no scripts and wants to catch animal’s eyes.

There should be many cases still not appearing or being discussed in Taiwan about the safety of food. But many Taiwanese are still choosing life with letting each other earn their so-called living by black way. On the other side, Taiwan’s media always gives blurred direction and lacks of the sense of responspilities including Won-won’s Cti (Chung-Tian TV, especially Chen Wen-Tsian), the ERA news, ETTV(Dong-Sun TV), TVBS or China Times, the Liberty Times(famous for its “loving Taiwan” and the founder Wu A-Min) and United Daily News. Their diction of supporting the independent Taiwan from Beijing’s China and the self-centred of chasing only excitement and illegal money are ugly and disgusting. Taiwanese has been living in this surroundings for two decades and watches these paradoxically everyday. The scandal is one of the “tragedy” in Taiwan, always in fact, it contains or affects not too much but every time can lets some people suicide.

In addition to the safety of food, the effect of politics in Taiwan is being discussed constantly. In my view, the shock is very few and at the beginning there is no link between the scandal and Kuomintang. But in “talking show” on SETTV, anchored by Cheng Hung-Yi, the most successful market investor in Taiwan, I see some strange thinkings and redundant action of KMT. By the way, I get touch with Cheng Hung-Yi, the often guest speaker Professor Hsu Yung-Ming and anchorwoman Ou Guo-Chou for at least six years. Seldom of people like these in Taiwan keep this island at steady advancing speed. I appreciate Economist that uses their political logic to let all of the reader in the world know the recent Taiwan.

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台灣的食安問題一直有，以前免洗碗盤就有螢光劑，食物有人工合成調味料過多致敏等等。像這麼大規模食用油及調味品仍有超量塑化劑還是空前的。在這裡順便抱怨台灣媒體。筆者曾經和當時在三立新聞台當大話新聞主持人鄭弘儀有些往來，不過因故在2008年後沒什麼看台灣的報紙和繁體中文網路媒體，不太看電視，才會來經濟學人雜誌和美國的相關傳媒有一搭沒一搭的聊。當年筆者寫這篇時提的很模糊，很排斥台灣社會，只知道很多東西有塑化劑不能吃，因為中間產物生成後沒有洗淨而殘留，當時說只有食品製程中有塑化劑者，消費者都不敢購買，無論商家掛再多保證。在當兵時因為單位看得到一些辦案文件，那真的就算有辦我看成效也有限。