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Ban all smuggled food not just toxic milk
The government has dealt with melamine tainted
milk and milk products from China. Why not ban all smuggled food
products?
This evil of smuggling bad food from other
countries should have been faced by the government a long time ago.
Harm from bad food can come from any smuggled, unrecorded and
untested product.
Years ago, there were dieting pills for women
laced with shabu.
In 2006, we had formaldehyde in Chinese food
products.
Why can’t the appropriate branches of
government always be on their toes. They are now acting on melamine
tainted milk products from Red China because the Chinese themselves
reported the deaths of their own babies who drank the poisoned milk.
Government inaction on smuggled goods—not just
food products but everything, like oil and gasoline, motorcycles and
cars—is killing our country.
It’s just like the inaction of the government
on the MILF problem. The founders of that rebel organization of
Islamic Moros turned its back on Chairman Nur Misari’s Moro
National Liberation Front after the latter sensibly agreed to cut a
peace deal with the government. If the police and the military had
acted on time, the MILF would not have thousands of fighters now and
be able to raid towns and provinces, kill innocent civilians, burn
houses and steal carabaos and kill policemen and government officers
and soldiers.
If government were doing its job against
smuggled products, our agriculture and industry would have been
strong and not half-dead.
Bart O. Palos
Airport Road
Pasay City
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