Comments on: Vegetables are sick – Hunan Liuyang cadmium pollution http://www.chinahush.com/2009/11/21/vegetables-are-sick-hunan-liuyang-cadmium-pollution/ Stories of China Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:53:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Randy http://www.chinahush.com/2009/11/21/vegetables-are-sick-hunan-liuyang-cadmium-pollution/comment-page-1/#comment-4676 Randy Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:52:24 +0000 http://www.chinahush.com/?p=3572#comment-4676 Good; facts is what we need. Meanwhile from the outside it looks like the Chinese people are very ambitious in one sense; yet much too passive in another. You simply cannot afford to wait until all these issues are properly regulated on a national scale. In my opinion the environmental policy should be multi-lateral, even universal, yet that does not exclude local communities from taking their own responsability. They need to stand up, and act - take matter in their own hands, even if this might go against their deeply rooted cultural impulses - because there will be nobody there in time to save them or their children. "To prefer not to think about it" is a common human reaction, when confronted with complex issues like these. Yet I'm afraid this will not do in this case. This is not merely a bad dream. The threat is real. There's not much time left. Your house is on fire. If we let it happen, the consequences will cost us all dearly. So you have to wake up basically. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Right now.... Good; facts is what we need. Meanwhile from the outside it looks like the Chinese people are very ambitious in one sense; yet much too passive in another. You simply cannot afford to wait until all these issues are properly regulated on a national scale. In my opinion the environmental policy should be multi-lateral, even universal, yet that does not exclude local communities from taking their own responsability. They need to stand up, and act – take matter in their own hands, even if this might go against their deeply rooted cultural impulses – because there will be nobody there in time to save them or their children. “To prefer not to think about it” is a common human reaction, when confronted with complex issues like these. Yet I’m afraid this will not do in this case. This is not merely a bad dream. The threat is real. There’s not much time left. Your house is on fire. If we let it happen, the consequences will cost us all dearly. So you have to wake up basically. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Right now….

]]> By: Xiao Wang http://www.chinahush.com/2009/11/21/vegetables-are-sick-hunan-liuyang-cadmium-pollution/comment-page-1/#comment-4672 Xiao Wang Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:43:09 +0000 http://www.chinahush.com/?p=3572#comment-4672 Facts coming up. It's probably a much larger area that has been affected. Soon farmers will plant there again (it's money after all, so why care about poisoning the people they sell the crops to). I bet a great deal of the vegetables, crops and meat we eat here in China would never pass Western inspections. Pesticieds, hormones, antibiotics, all kinds of stuff. Actually I prefer not to think about it coz I doubt we can avoid it under the current conditions. Facts coming up. It’s probably a much larger area that has been affected. Soon farmers will plant there again (it’s money after all, so why care about poisoning the people they sell the crops to). I bet a great deal of the vegetables, crops and meat we eat here in China would never pass Western inspections. Pesticieds, hormones, antibiotics, all kinds of stuff. Actually I prefer not to think about it coz I doubt we can avoid it under the current conditions.

]]> By: Randy http://www.chinahush.com/2009/11/21/vegetables-are-sick-hunan-liuyang-cadmium-pollution/comment-page-1/#comment-4641 Randy Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:47:05 +0000 http://www.chinahush.com/?p=3572#comment-4641 The best way to get a message accross, is by touching the hearts of people... Yet in order to solve an environmental problem, we need to apply different sources of creativity and other skills of mindfullness. I have some experience as a field worker in soil sanitation. As such I have encountered many different types of soil and water contamination. Not all pollutions are alike. Some are quite easy, others are tough to handle. Keep in mind this happens in all industrialized areas of the world. Yet these issues can only be resolved and controlled, if its urgency is acknowledged and the proper measures are established and accounted for. The best way to get a message accross, is by touching the hearts of people… Yet in order to solve an environmental problem, we need to apply different sources of creativity and other skills of mindfullness.
I have some experience as a field worker in soil sanitation. As such I have encountered many different types of soil and water contamination. Not all pollutions are alike. Some are quite easy, others are tough to handle. Keep in mind this happens in all industrialized areas of the world. Yet these issues can only be resolved and controlled, if its urgency is acknowledged and the proper measures are established and accounted for.

]]> By: Hao Hao Report http://www.chinahush.com/2009/11/21/vegetables-are-sick-hunan-liuyang-cadmium-pollution/comment-page-1/#comment-4624 Hao Hao Report Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:49:03 +0000 http://www.chinahush.com/?p=3572#comment-4624 <strong>Someone thinks this story is fantastic...</strong> This story was submitted to Hao Hao Report - a collection of China's best stories and blog posts. If you like this story, be sure to go vote for it.... Someone thinks this story is fantastic…

This story was submitted to Hao Hao Report – a collection of China’s best stories and blog posts. If you like this story, be sure to go vote for it….

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