In May, 2011, there was a tragic case in Taiwan, people called this as the most serious event of food poisoning in the past thirty years. There were two companies which are Nestle and KLIM, those two companies purposely mixed the chemical material (Plasticizer) with milk powder to reduce the cost on those products, hence the government implements complete enumeration to make sure that other foods don’t have that, but unfortunately not only milk powder but also cakes, breads, and some medicines. Experts said that this kind of chemical material is 20 times poisoner than melamine and also effects the development of children as it affects hormones . If people intake too much, it will cause deaths. This is how serious in that era. From my perspective, the social responsibility is a tool, if you show that well, it will be helpful and useful, if you don’t show it well, it will be wicked and disaster. Such as, this event, operators want to save more money and mix those chemicals inside the products that they make. Yes. they acheive their goals to make more money (without getting caught). but now they got caught, they not only lost their reputation to the people, company and also their bright future, so for my opinion, the social responsibility is very important to those businesses.
References:
“2011 Taiwan Food Scandal.” Wikipedia. Author unknown. Wikimedia Foundation, 09 May 2014. Web. 11 Sept.