In these days, a food safety case that seriously affecting public health was debunked by some whistle-blower out of southern Taiwan.  A dingy underground "factory" churned out cooking oil material from nauseating scraps and sold its "products" to an ISO-verified company.  The company then let those low-cost material be adulterated with its own stuff to manufacture the cooking oil of its own brand and sold them to a number of famous food companies all over the island as the ingredients of making various food products.  What a disgusting event it is from that we consumers are liable to being the victims of unhealthy food. 

The more disgusting thing is our government's lax attitude towards public health and food safety regulations.  Besides, in Taiwan government always treated such crime as mere fraud, simply unable to prevent similiar cases from recurring, whereas in Mainland government would take any action deemed necessary against such a felonly, including death penalty quickly sentenced and executed.  Some reports said the serious violation of food safety has been basically extinct in Mainland since that poisonous milk powder case, though I am not sure about the veracity of those reports. 

The even more disgusting scene appeared yesterday.  Some products of a well-known bakery named Li Ji(犁記) were found contaminated with that greasy oil.  The bakery decided to accept purchase return from consumers, but report said a remarkable portion of customers took advantage of the policy by making duplicate refund with empty boxes (That is fraud, too).  A senior citizen of my age(if he is a citizen) severely scolded a counter girl and even forced her to eat the returned cake.  The innocent girl(I think she is innocent), feeling so wronged, wept over such a unfair treatment. 

That is what the island looks like!

P.S. I remember I did purchase the products of Li Ji once at COSCO.  Do the consumer dare to protest that big store?