Speaking of unregulated "capitalism"- 53,000 CHILDREN sick from Chinese milk

[underpants]

But nothing like THIS could possibly happen in OUR unregulated "capitalism" (capitalism doesn't exist without regulation)

China has said 53,000 children have been sickened by milk contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, which is normally used to make plastics.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iCQFgtK5OTblOceDxmbdN7BcRguQ

[DCKit]

1. They have regulators. The system is corrupt from top to bottom.

There will be more executions.

The Chinese government doesn't care about corruption, it's how they all got to where they are, but will not stand for this kind of embarrassment by underlings.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

6. It is very different in the United States of America

We have the corruption WITHOUT executions!
Your US history seems wanting, nineteenth century milk
was watered, the milks lack of nutrients caused babies to
sicken and die. Theft and corruption is how the US got
where it is today!

[originalpckelly]

2. Isn't China a communist country?

[underpants]

3. operating a capitalistic system

and do oh so well seeing as how there is no regulation

[bananas]

5. They converted to capitalism quite a while back, as did Russia

12.) Q. Where is the largest McDonald's in the WORLD?
A. The McDonald's in Beijing, China, is 28,000 square feet, 2 stories,
seats 700 and employs 1,000. This is the largest McDonald's in the
world. The Moscow McDonald's also seats 700.
http://www.kevinhebert.com/alt.mcdonalds.html

[asteroid2003QQ47]

7. They converted to capitalism quite a while back and...

it won't work any better in the long run for them than it has for the majority of us.
Hell, it was a short "while back" and it's alredy turned to shit for them.
The milk poisoned sick and dead babies is a direct result of unregulated
free market capitalists.
NPR Sept. 23--
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94953540

[bullwinkle428]

8. Dumped the communism...kept the totalitarianism!

[bananas]

4. The melamine massacre

First they put it in pet food.
Then they put it in baby food (milk).
Where will they put it next?
Obviously, they have a lot of this stuff, and are looking for places to put it.
They might put it in poultry or cattle feed, because those animals are going to be slaughtered anyway, nobody will notice.
How will it affect beef and chicken and eggs?
Will people get sick from eating them?