Reflections on the "Sanlu milk powder" incident
In a people-oriented modern society, we must never indulge in the act of forgetting righteousness, and we must never allow basic moral degeneration. Honesty is the premise of social contract, and morality is the cornerstone of commercial civilization. Sanlu milk powder incident once again reminds us of the importance of moral construction in the process of economic development. Sacrificing morality and consumer interests in exchange for profits will inevitably pay a heavy price in the end.
Morality is the social soil for all systems to operate. In the framework of a country's civilization, morality and law are interdependent and indispensable, and it is necessary to run the country by law and by virtue at the same time.
1. Thoughts on Japanese problem rice agent apologizing and committing suicide.
I read two news articles these two days, which are quite insightful. 1. As of 8: 00 June, 5438+08, the "Sanlu Milk Powder" accident has caused 6244 infants to get sick, 158 suffered from renal failure and 3 died. Due to the detection of melamine in dairy products produced by 22 companies including Yili, Mengniu, Yashili and Shien, the number of "stone babies" may increase. It is also known that the rice processing enterprise headquartered in Osaka, Japan resold contaminated rice on the 3rd day, and the agent of the 3rd day food and the president of Migu Company in Guangling Town, Nara hanged himself in his apartment on the evening of 16.
The same business owners have different life awe and sense of responsibility. The former, Sanlu infant milk powder, even contains "toxic" melamine in the face of a young life as beautiful as flowers and jade. From the mother reporting the problem to taking the initiative to face it, she has always taken a cover-up, prevarication and passive attitude. In the latter case, even if "Li San Food" sells contaminated rice, according to the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, there is no report that this problem rice is harmful to human health. There is no harm to citizens' health, but food agents do not hide it, so as to die and apologize. The attitude towards life is very different.
When they found the problem, Japanese businessmen were ashamed and miserable, so they kowtowed to heaven with their death. The problem of Sanlu milk powder became more and more serious last month, and business owners can find excuses to shirk their responsibilities; You can also use "national inspection-free products" as your shield, without blushing or swelling.
As consumers, we certainly don't want so many producers and sellers of tainted milk powder in China to learn from the Japanese businessman who committed suicide in shame and treat their crimes directly or indirectly. What everyone wants to see is the basic responsibility of business owners and the instinctive consciousness of fearing life.
Therefore, "Japanese businessmen selling problem rice commit suicide" is a great drink for milk powder manufacturers in China, which goes straight to the hearts of illegal food suppliers and suppresses their arrogance. If more enterprises can have such a high sense of life, they will be able to reverse the current food safety dilemma in time and restore citizens' basic livelihood rights and interests of "eating safely".
2. The root of Sanlu incident-inferiority, self-humiliation and self-destruction.
Sanlu milk powder incident seems to be a simple food safety incident. But it is by no means a simple food safety incident that can cover and explain a series of similar vicious incidents in China in recent years. Sanlu milk powder incident is actually the result of China people's bring disgrace to oneself's self-destruction and self-destruction-more precisely, it should be that the strong or scum of the nation killed and killed the weak under the protection of system loopholes.
A series of food safety incidents in China did not spread abroad. An important reason is that domestic enterprises, knowing that the protection of nationals by foreign laws is very strict and systematic, will consciously set "high standards and strict requirements" for their export products. Therefore, in China, export products are regarded as the best products with the most guaranteed quality. People are almost used to this inferiority complex. Some officials show the same inferiority complex. Facing foreigners, they have a strong sense of inferiority in their bones, bow and scrape, and are polite. Once faced with his compatriots, the same face suddenly changed, showing a cold and shameless side.
In the past, Hitler committed genocide against foreign nations (Jewish nations) and showed great love for his people. As a nation, China is anti-racist, that is, it demeans and hurts the nation.
Because of this inferiority complex, foreign investors can get rich overnight through China's capital market. In this way, some financial institutions in the United States earned enough profits from China to make up for all their subprime losses and savings.
Because of this inferiority complex, PetroChina only raised $2.9 billion when it went public in the United States, but in four years, it paid dividends to American shareholders of $65.438+06.5438+09 billion, while it raised $66.8 billion (equivalent to $9.54 billion) in A shares and paid dividends to A shares of less than $600 million.
Because of this kind of bring disgrace to oneself, criminal cases involving foreigners always end in tears and humiliation of China people. For example, in the TanJing case involving three Koreans in April this year, the logical contradiction in the police conclusion has been questioned so far, and the topic used in media reports is "TanJing's death tortures the truth". Sadly, the only people who really care about the truth are the increasingly weak voices of the media and the Internet. If citizens of a country do not feel safe in their own territory, where can they feel safe?
Because of this inferiority complex, we strictly control, give the safest food to foreigners and let our compatriots eat toxic and harmful food.
Inferiority leads to suicide, and the result of suicide is suicide.
Due to the problems of water and food, as well as the pressure of life, the health of men is directly affected, leading to the decline of sperm quality. The Institute of Science and Technology of the National Population and Family Planning Commission studied the sperm analysis data of 256 people from 39 cities and counties published between1981-kloc-0/996, and found that the semen quality of men in China is increasing at the rate of 1% every year. This is still the data of the past. In recent years, the pollution has become more serious, and the result may be even more shocking.
Academician Zhong Nanshan once said, "The sperm concentration of men has dropped by nearly half compared with 40 years ago. If the corresponding solutions are not adopted, many people will not have children in another 50 years. " -New Express June 2007 65438+1October 1 1.
China people only had real self-confidence in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and this self-confidence was completely lost from the late Qing Dynasty.
People's self-confidence comes from four aspects: the government's respect and service to the people (including the establishment of social security mechanism); Protecting the legal system; Religious beliefs and culture; Tradition.
Needless to say the first aspect.
The second aspect is legal protection. For example, in the system of "punitive damages/exemplary damages" in Anglo-American case law, the court can order the actor to pay compensation higher than the actual loss of the victim while ordering the actor to pay compensation in the usual sense. Britain began to have this system in 1763, and the United States established this system in 1784. Many American laws, such as the famous Sherman Act and Clayton Act, have provisions on punitive damages. 1in March, 1989, the American Exxon Valdez ran aground, and about 1 1 10,000 gallons of crude oil leaked. The American court ordered Exxon to bear $2.5 billion in punitive damages, and together with other lawsuits, Exxon compensated the fishermen for the accident with $3.4 billion.
Punitive damages make American and British citizens truly first-class citizens. 1988 65438+February 2 1, a Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on its way from Frankfurt to new york via London, killing 270 people. In August 2003, Libya reached an agreement with the United States and Britain, agreeing to pay compensation totaling about $2.7 billion to the families of the victims of the Lockerbie incident. I specifically checked: Libya's GDP in 2003 was only $22.3 billion!
None of these things can happen in China.
Article 2 of China's Consumer Law stipulates: "The rights and interests of consumers who purchase or use commodities or receive services for their daily needs are protected by this law." But many times, the commodities that consumers need to buy in their daily lives, such as houses and cars, are not included in the list of daily consumer goods. Therefore, it is impossible to protect their rights and interests according to Article 49 of the Consumer Law (if an operator commits fraud in providing goods or services, it shall increase the compensation for the losses suffered by the consumer according to the requirements, and the compensation amount shall be twice the price of the goods purchased or the cost of receiving services).
One of the basic starting points for the establishment of western laws is to protect the weak, and only by protecting the weak can fairness be achieved. Western legislators are convinced that only by making the actor bear the compensation liability that can make him feel sad can we really provide better products and services for consumers. The legislators in our country first consider the interests of developers and other dignitaries, fearing that they will suffer losses because of excessive compensation. This kind of law to protect the strong not only leads to the high cost of people's rights protection and meager compensation, but also leads to the poor quality of buildings and the prevalence of construction waste, which not only causes huge economic waste, but also lays many hidden dangers for life safety. From the root point of view, it is the result of bring disgrace to oneself, bring disgrace to oneself and bring disgrace to oneself.
If you don't respect yourself, you will bring shame on yourself. People still remember the Toshiba notebook incident: In May 2005, the Japanese company Toshiba announced that it would only compensate Americans, but not China people. Toshiba finally assumed a huge loss of $654.38 billion, which was used to pay settlement money to American users, issue shopping vouchers and pay the plaintiff's lawyer's fees. The solution to the same problem in China is to release a patch software on Toshiba's website, which can be downloaded and installed on your notebook for free. How many times have similar incidents of insulting China been repeated since the Toshiba notebook incident?
We have created an unprecedented sports event with amazing capital expenditure, but how much money has been spent on people's physical exercise?
The third aspect is religious belief.
Do people in China have faith? This is really a problem. A foreign friend told me that when they rent a house to international students in China, they always ask each other about their beliefs, because a believer has a bottom line, and he can know his bottom line through his beliefs.
China has had simple beliefs since ancient times, for example, good is rewarded with good, evil with evil, and so on. However, these traditional beliefs are increasingly diluted, because under the loopholes of the system, the strong can run amok and plunder at will. Eliminating the belief component in "good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil" needs the protection of the system, that is, the system ensures that people are rewarded with good and evil with evil. But if the system can't do this, it will push society to evil. This is the inevitable result.
China people's faith, after decades of destruction, has reached the valley of death. People with conscience were tortured and killed in all kinds of destruction, including religious believers and Zhang Zhixin who believed in capitalism. This invisibly gives people a kind of guidance and leads to depravity.
Faith and culture are complementary and inseparable. Christian culture in western countries, Islamic culture in the Middle East, Buddhist culture in India, Confucian culture in China and so on. When faith is replaced by flattery, a nation loses its direction and culture loses its most important foundation. What can a nation without culture have?
The fourth aspect is tradition.
Our tradition is honesty, but this honesty system has not been confirmed and guaranteed by the system, which makes honesty a cover for some people to cheat and plunder others until everyone is no longer honest and dare not be honest. Another of our traditions is feudal autocracy, hierarchy and so on. These factors have been inherited without reservation, excluding the foundation on which a good system must rely: democracy.
Because there is no good system, there is no perfect system, the wicked are rampant, bullying the city, lawlessness, and good people are humiliated.
China people are kind, simple and hardworking, and are willing to make the least contribution to themselves. If they can be guaranteed by the system and get the respect and protection they deserve, they will repay the society with greater love and more dedication. This nation will become the most powerful nation in the world, and any member of this nation will be proud of this nation. This nation will win the respect of the world, and so will any member of this nation.
This is a dream day.
Sanlu milk powder incident, if we treat headache and foot pain, or even treat headache and foot pain, similar incidents will repeat themselves. This is almost certain. Therefore, the Sanlu milk powder incident made my heart ache and it was hard to restrain!
Society has lost its bottom line, and everyone is a victim.
China youth daily
My colleagues and I went to a scenic spot for a meeting. After the meeting, the local villagers took us fishing by boat and cast five nets. After two hours, we pulled them up, but we couldn't see any fish. Where are the fish? It is about being "cut" by uncontrolled fishing. If the resources are public, there will always be a "tragedy of the commons", and everyone is smart enough to make a move first, causing harm to others.
This mentality of harming others and benefiting oneself is vividly reflected in playing mahjong: I am bent on winning myself. If I can't win, I won't let you win. I have lived in western countries for some time, and the contrast is particularly strong.
Once, we watched local people fishing in Lake Taubo in New Zealand. They always measure the fish after they catch it. If it is shorter than a certain size, they will consciously put it back in the lake. This size is stipulated by the local government, and it is also the common sense of the people, because they understand that "if you eat even small fish, there will be no fish to eat in the future." However, such social knowledge is often difficult to form in China now.
The milk powder incident in the past two days has made people feel uneasy, and the government is making great efforts to rectify it. Geng, a Hebei dairy farmer suspected of producing and selling toxic and harmful food, was arrested a few days ago. When asked by the police, he confessed that adding melamine to milk "can pass the inspection and sell milk smoothly". Geng also admitted that adding chemical raw materials is not good for human health. He and his family "never eat this kind of milk mixed with melamine".
Geng must have been laughing before the accident-I successfully sold the poisoned milk and made money. I don't care about other people's health. Anyway, my family and I don't eat this milk. I don't know if he ever thought that if everyone on the earth is as smart and calculating as he is, he won't become a victim in other fields except ensuring his family to drink the "safe milk" produced by himself.
In fact, this phenomenon of mutual harm is not uncommon in recent years. Wine blended with industrial alcohol, vermicelli bleached with sulfur, fried dough sticks with washing powder, pork injected with water, flour blended with talcum powder, fish cultured with contraceptives, red eggs containing Sudan red, poisoned rice, and so on. Not to mention that consumers are innocent victims, even those unscrupulous businessmen who get economic benefits from them will inevitably become victims of a certain link in this vicious circle. It can be said that no one will win if we play like this.
There are many smart people in China. On the surface, I took advantage of myself, but in fact, everyone suffered a big loss together. In other words, this seemingly "selfish" behavior is actually hurting yourself. Such examples can be seen everywhere in our lives. For example, everyone keeps their home clean and tidy, but they can litter and spit as soon as they go out, because "that's not my home". When everyone does this, the result is that everyone lives in the garbage dump together. Also, there is a traffic jam on the way to and from work, and everyone can't help but push forward. The picture is too fast, and the result is like a crab, and no one can live without it.
In this world, everything is always interrelated. The government advocates building a harmonious society, which is to build a win-win situation between people and between people and nature, so that everyone has a sense of security and happiness. If you only care about your own small interests and ignore the public interests, then the ultimate victims will be everyone in the community and society, including yourself.
What does it mean that melamine has not been detected in foreign milk powder?
A few days ago, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) urgently carried out a special inspection of melamine in infant formula milk powder nationwide, and announced the results of the phased inspection. At present, there are 175 infant milk powder production enterprises in China, of which 66 enterprises have stopped producing infant milk powder. This special inspection investigated the remaining 109 enterprises, and * * * inspected 49 1 batch products of these enterprises. Special inspection showed that 69 batches of products from 22 enterprises including Sanlu were found to have different levels of melamine. (Southern Network September 17)
The regular inspection results announced by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine also show that only Guangdong Yashili infant formula milk powder has been exported to Bangladesh, Myanmar and Yemen. After testing the retained samples, no melamine was found. No melamine was detected in the dairy products supplied to Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Why is melamine not detected in dairy products exported for Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympics, while dairy products sold to domestic consumers contain melamine? How to explain this phenomenon? Is it that milk powder manufacturers do not sell unqualified products to foreigners for the sake of national international image, or is the national quality inspection department strictly controlling export products? Why are the products produced by the same enterprise "different inside and outside"? Are our own compatriots inferior? Are the lives of our compatriots worthless?
In my opinion, the state strictly inspects the food export, especially the food supplied to the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the production enterprises dare not rashly sell these products to foreigners or provide them to the participants of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. Doing so is undoubtedly a "moth to the fire" and self-destructs. A "smart" entrepreneur would never do that. It is safer and more profitable to sell these "problem products" to domestic consumers. It can be seen that producers know what kind of dairy products are qualified and what kind of dairy products are unqualified. This also shows that as long as food supervision is effective, producers will not dare to take chances, and unqualified food will not dare to enter the domestic market rashly.
These enterprises sell fake and inferior products under the guise of brands, hurting consumers and hurting the health and lives of their compatriots. This is the lack of honesty, the extinction of conscience, the trampling on the law, and another indifference to human life. What they did was disgusting. We have reason to feel indignant.
Market economy is essentially a legal economy. In the case that the legal economy is still not perfect and entrepreneurs' sense of social responsibility is not strong, no quality certification or inspection-free products are reliable! What we can do is to strictly supervise the quality of food. Don't think that everything will be fine if you get the quality certification and order the inspection-free products.
Behind Mengniu Group's discrimination against mainland consumers
/kloc-In September, 2009, Comrade Yao Tongshan of Mengniu made a remark at a press conference in Hong Kong, which broke the hearts of the mainland, based on the principle of pleasing people from where: "Mengniu's products supplied to Hong Kong are much less likely to go wrong than those from the mainland."
This sentence is hard for mainlanders to accept, but it tells a long-standing fact in the export industry: in terms of product quality, most enterprises implement double standards of export and domestic sales.
Why?
Are these China manufacturers worshipping foreign things and obsessing foreign things? Or are China manufacturers suffering from xenophobia? Export the best goods abroad and sell the bad goods at home? Not exactly.
The real reason is very simple, that is, Europe, America, Japan and other countries and regions have strict inspection and quarantine and quality control systems for imported goods. Moreover, in a society ruled by law like Hong Kong, it is difficult for market managers to handle it in a Chinese way. In other words, the management departments of these countries or regions are difficult to fool and settle.
As a result, China manufacturers who are good at adapting to different environments quickly joined international standards, actively participated in various quality system certifications, and finally made their products meet the standards of developed countries. Moreover, I learned the majesty of a society ruled by law in developed countries.