Response blog to: Bonnie Zhou

After coming across Bonnie’s article over the discovery of the harmful ingredient called DEHP in Taiwanese food products, it got me thinking over a similar situation that took place in one of the Indian products. There is this Indian sweet called Kaju barfi in India and since I was a child, I loved eating it. I was shocked to find out, after eating it for well over 15 years of my life that the product contained lead poisoning.

I, like Bonnie, got very conscious over any food item I bought in India because of this. However, I realized that I was lucky that I had the liberty to be picky  over what items I bought but the financially deprived people of India do not have this leisure and often have to eat whatever they can find. The only cheap products they can find mostly are unfortunately products with harmful ingredients.

It is almost revolting to know that people are still producing goods with harmful substances. I feel like it is the responsibilities of people like us, who have the option to just avoid these products altogether, to help out the ones that don’t have the same chance.

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