春蚕到死丝方尽的作者食品安全英语作文材料

2021年1月18日发(作者：上班时间)

ONE
From steroid-spiked pork to glow-in-the-dark meat to recycled
cooking oil collected from sewers, a series of illnesses and scandals
linked to tainted food has put officials on guard. But tougher
measures have had little effect amid an official culture of secrecy.
June 26, 2011|By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Beijing — It was a wedding the guests would never forget.
Everybody of consequence in the village had been invited to a banquet to celebrate
the marriage of the son of one of the wealthiest families. Fifty tables groaned under a
lavish spread of dumplings, steamed chickens, pork ribs, meatballs, stir fries, all of it
exceptionally delicious, guests would later recall.
But about an hour into the meal, something seemed to be wrong. A pregnant woman
collapsed. Old men clutched their chests. Children vomited.
Out of about 500 people at the April 23 banquet in Wufeng, 286 went to the hospital.
Doctors at the No. 3 Xiangya Hospital in nearby Changsha, capital of Hunan province,
blamed pork contaminated with clenbuterol, a steroid that makes pigs grow faster and
leaner. Consumed by humans in excess quantity, it can cause heart palpitations,
nausea, convulsions, dizziness and vomiting.
he was poisoned,said a villager named Dai, whose husband was
hospitalized for five days.
To eat, drink and be merry in China is done at a risk: Weddings increasingly end with
trips to the emergency room. During the May Day holiday weekend, 192 people from
two weddings elsewhere in Hunan fell so ill they had to be hospitalized.
Since 2008, when six children died and 300,000 were sickened by melamine-tainted
baby formula, the Chinese government has enacted ever-more-strict policies to ensure
food safety, including a directive last month from the Supreme Court calling for the
death penalty in cases where people die as a result of tainted foods.
It hasn't helped. If anything, China's food scandals are becoming increasingly frequent
and bizarre.
In May, a Shanghai woman who had left uncooked pork on her kitchen table woke up
in the middle of the night and noticed that the meat was emitting a blue light, like


something out of a science fiction movie. Experts pointed to phosphorescent bacteria,
blamed for another case of glow-in-the-dark pork last year.
Farmers in eastern Jiangsu province complained to state media last month that their
watermelons had exploded landminesafter they mistakenly applied too much
growth hormone in hopes of increasing their size.
Such incidents cut to the quick of the weaknesses in China's monolithic one-party
system. Chinese authorities are painfully aware that people will lose confidence in a
government that cannot give them assurances about what they eat. They are equally
aware that tainted foods could cause what communist authorities fear most: social
unrest.
safety concerns the people's interests and livelihoods, social stability and the
future of socialism with Chinese characteristics,is how the Supreme Court put it in
its notice last month accompanying the announcement of the death penalty.
The government's efforts are looking frantic.
Propaganda posters put up in recent weeks in Beijing restaurants show a clenched fist
about to smash into a man in a chef's toque with the message, illegal
additives!
The mass poisoning at the April 23 wedding in Wufeng village prompted provincial
authorities to decree that samples of ingredients must be inspected in advance for
banquets with more than 100 people.
It's doubtful, however, that anybody will heed the regulation — China is famous for
promulgating laws that are never enforced. There is no equivalent of the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration: A myriad of different agencies reporting to various
ministries, including the Agriculture Ministry and Health Ministry, tend to kick
responsibility from one to another. Offenders are not usually prosecuted until
something goes badly wrong, as in the baby formula case, in which two people were
executed.
The incentive to cheat is greater than ever before, with inflation at its highest level in
nearly three years. Food prices in May were up 11.7% from last year, and flooding
this month is expected to push them even higher.

on the other hand, whenever you see a big crowd at the market it is because
something is on sale,said Luo Yunbo, dean of the food sciences college at China
Agricultural University in Beijing.
Bigger, cheaper, faster is the name of the game.