ANCHOR: A Hong Kong NGO is blaming the Chinese Communist Party for doing little to resolve last year’s toxic milk powder scare. The NGO says authorities have been swift in sentencing farmers to death, but have done little to hold the milk powder manufacturer responsible. STORY: Father John Gan and several members of the Joint Commission for the Abolition of the Death Penalty are outraged by Communist Chinas hard-line approach with farmers and their light handling of the Sanlu Group, the …
Archive for November, 2009
WONG: Today’s top story… in mainland China the families of 63 victims of the contaminated milk powder incident have launched a group legal case against the CCP regime. The families have to face their suffering children as well the burden of expensive ongoing medical treatment every day. However, their case has been ignored by the court. STORY: These parents are frustrated; courts have halted lawsuits on behalf of their children who have expensive medical expenses now. All of their children …
Dairy farmer Walt Moore, 41, is general manager/owner of Walmoore Holsteins, Inc. in West Grove, PA. He is a fourth-generation farmer whose family has worked the farm for nearly a century. The farm is 1150 acres with 750 milk cows and 525 young stock. He thinks the future is bright for dairy farming.
www.cnn.com 53000 reported ill from tainted milk powder, 13000 children were hospitalized. The crisis was initially thought to have been confined to baby milk powder but tests have found melamine in samples of liquid milk taken from China’s two largest dairy producers, Mengniu Dairy Group and Yili Industrial Group, as well as Shanghai-based Bright Dairy. WHO China representative Hans Troedsson said on Monday quality issues could occur anywhere from the farm to the retail outlet. He said …

