第1个回答 2009-03-26
WHY DONT WE USE DISPOSABLE CHOPSTICKS
This is a true case, if you don't believe try the following test:
Soak a pair of disposable chopsticks (usually given to you when you
buy pack food from a Chinese take-away) for between 3 to 5 minutes
inside hot boiling water. Within minutes and right in front of your
eyes, you will noticed that some white colouring matter seems to be
dissolved into the hot water from the chopsticks.
What is released from the chopsticks is actually a chemical, a bleaching agent.
In a campaign promoting healthy care in Singapore recently, Professor
Jackson Mathis reminds people not to use disposable chopsticks, as
almost the majority of them are made in or imported from China. He
explained that during the manufacturing process of disposable
chopsticks before the actual production
itself, all raw materials are already cover-grown with germs that make
the wood materials look like they are coated in multiple colours or
are covered with poisonous fungus.
The first process itself is already frightening as the manufacturer
starts the process by soaking up the wooden raw materials inside a
very big container that is filled with a very toxic and highly
poisonous chemical. This chemical is intentionally added in, in order
to preserve the materials. After a few days of soaking, they are then
washed with an even worse cleaning agent, in this case it is a
bleaching agent (which chemical ph level is believe to be more than a
thousand times over the general permissible / acceptable international
standards).
And guess what? These chemicals itself is likely to cause greater harm
to our health (if we continue consuming such chemicals into our body
on a daily basis) not forgetting that since these chemicals used are
usually carcinogenic in nature, they are likely to cause cancer.
Since his last visit to a disposable chopsticks manufacturing plant in
China 5 years ago, Professor Jackson Mathis has immediately stop using
such disposable chopsticks anymore. In Professor Jackson case, just in
case if he ever forgets to bring along his
own pair of chopsticks for lunch or dinner, he usually make sure that
he do not forget to put one pair of it inside his bag since it can be
re-use again and again.
Professor Jackson Mathis said: "If you have been using disposable
chopsticks in the past, and you insist on continue using them again,
please pause and think for a moment.
Why is cancer spreading like wild fire these days throughout the world
affecting all sorts of people. After that think of how many pairs of
disposable chopsticks a factory in China is producing by the minute.
The answer itself is right here !"