What else is there left to eat?!

Milk powder - cross.
Liquid milk - cross.
Milk chocolate - cross.
Yogurt - cross.
Ice cream - cross.

Now comes eggs and chicken! The discovery of excessive levels of melamine in eggs in Hongkong is prompting authorities to now begin checks on chicken meat as well. We knew for a long time that chickens in China are probably injected with loads of steriods. But MELAMINE?! Apparently, experts suspect that the melamine originates from chicken feed. I am REALLY paranoid now. Because it seems any foods that "should" contain proteins are prone to manipulation.

Before we moved to China, I told Olof that my biggest concern in Beijing is food safety and it is a shame that I was proven right. Since months ago, we started buying organic foods and imported products. But there are limitations and inconveniences. We can't find organic beef, for example. Plus, we often have to go to different places to buy different things. Carrefour and Wal-mart don't sell organic poultry. Lohao City charges exhorbitant prices. The local food market from which we buy fruits from is not stone's throw away.

PLUS, who can be 100% sure that the so-called "organic" foods that are selling off the shelves are REALLY organic?

I am not being over paranoid, but I totally anticipate this possibility that unscrupulous businessmen will find ways loopholes getting the "organic-certified" sticker and happily paste it on his toxic vegetables.

No way out? Grow your own vegetables. Rear your own chickens and cows. But then again. What are we going to water the vegetables with? What are we going to feed the animals with? Should they, also like us, eat only organic feed? But how to ensure that the feed is really organic...

How pathetic are we as human beings! We poison the food cycle "river" that we drink from.

We leave behind a legacy that we have nothing to be proud of and which our offsprings will lambast us for.