the jungle...

during america's industrial growth in the early 20th century, upton sinclair wrote the book, the jungle, exposing corruption in america's meatpacking industry. his book which intended to focus on labor conditions ended up spotlighting a more pressing issue of food safety. his book coupled with public outcry eventually led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which established the Food and Drug Administration. - (wiki)

not to be confused with mowgli and kiplings jungle, sinclair's jungle is a metaphor for the greed in capitalism and industrialization. china needs a modern day sinclair amidst (soy sauce made with human hair, pork buns made with cardboard and most recently the melamine milk/egg) food scandals.

in light of my previous post below, imagine the moms of taiwan, post melamine (milk and egg) scandal, were sent to china for positive channeling of maternal tyranny to research and expose the corruption of china's dairy industry. of course they'd go through taiwanese navy seal/marine/CIA/007/XMEN training before being deployed in the farmlands of the communists...and after completion of their research mission, their unyielding overly protective maternal and taiwanese fervor would be the guiding 4th estate in wreaking havoc on the mainland, killing all KMT efforts for a return to 1992 consensus, and giving the DPP new artillery to yearn for independence. if i were green (DPP), i'd push for new strategy and legislation. (this sounds like a great korean comedy movie, maybe they already have a so/no korean version, move over sassy girl, here comes sassy supermom)

my mother has forbid me to drink milk and eat eggs completely...no ifs ands or buts.

herein lies the irony, so to go along with the household "milk ban", i have gone through the cabinet and thrown away all packages of instant coffee/tea. throwing away food goes against her other crazy psychotic rules of "food wastage" which i'll get into another time. you should see the confused look on her face when she had to agree to me throwing away the milk powder packages.