Catpaw - diary of an angry cat

I would like to know what kind of a sick f*ck would think it is a good idea to use melamine as a food additive? I would also like to know what went went on at the corporate level that led to the use of melamine. Did the conversation go something like this?

Boss: We need to cut our costs here at our factory. Any good ideas?

Flunky 1: Well, we could cut our bonuses a bit?

Boss: Are you serious? Holy sh*t, you can’t be? Get our of here! Any other ideas?

Flunky 2: We could stretch our product by using an additive.

Boss: hmmm… good thinking. What can we use?

Flunky 2: Oh we could add dirt and crap to the flour. No wait, how about some sort of chemical castoff. I have a cousin who can get it for us real cheap. You know some sort of chemical that could make the milk look richer but we would only have to sell water with a bit of whitening agent in it and a thickener.

Boss: What chemical?

Flunky 2: Something called melamine. I think it’s a plastic or something.

Flunky 3: Is it dangerous?

Silence and then the board breaks out into laughter

Flunky 2: We won’t be feeding our families this junk, so who cares. If we get caught well, we’ll just say we don’t know where it came from.

Boss: Brilliant. Give yourselves a bonus.

The callousness of this action beggars belief. But what really outrages me is the niggling thought that this scandal involved more than factory managers. The okay on this type of travesty came from much higher up. The company owners/managers and politicians are complicit in this scandal if by nothing more than their willingness to say nothing and put the profit margins and bonuses of the corporate elite above the safety of the public.

Anyone who went along with this has abdicated their right to call themselves a member of the human race.

Stumble it!