After a busy day, your stomach has been singing "Empty City Plan" for a long time, and you are looking forward to a delicious meal. However, please wait a moment, don't think that the food on the table is as bright and beautiful as you can see, and there may be hidden dangers that you can't see!

Nichols Fox, a senior American journalist, once revealed to us the shocking facts behind the seemingly rich and nutritious table with a book "Food and Poisonous Bacteria: The Amazing Truth of Food Chain Pollution": "Mad Cow Disease" is related to "Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease", Japanese vegetable salads are seriously polluted by Escherichia coli, and oysters in the Gulf of Mexico are infected by poisons ... In the book, Nichols Fox exclaimed that human beings are losing their awareness of.

"food bombs" threaten human health. These are not just distant American events. Since the publication of Nichols Fox's book, more and more food safety incidents have hit people's fragile nerves again and again. Food safety is becoming an increasingly noisy topic in public view, and some people even use the words "food terror" to describe it. These invisible "terrorists" attack our dining table all the time, destroying our belief in food health and dietary nutrition. In December 24, when Tommy Thompson, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, left office, he made such an amazing remark: "I have never understood why terrorists didn't attack our food supply, because it was so easy." To put it simply, there are about 2.1 million farms, 9, restaurants, 115, food processing plants and 34, supermarkets in the United States. This huge and fast-moving food supply line in the United States is a very tempting target for terrorism. From 1986 to December 2, about 18, cases of mad cow disease were discovered in Britain. At the peak of mad cow disease in 1992, more than 37, cases were found. In 1998, a "dioxin-contaminated chicken incident" broke out in Belgium. It was found that dioxin in the feed for hens exceeded the allowable limit by about 2 times, and the dioxin content in some chickens was 1 times higher than the normal limit.

judging from the situation in China, this country, which is "mainly solving the problem of food supply and demand safety, is also suffering from the threat of" food terror ".These threats come from all directions and cannot be prevented.

(1) the threat from pesticides. China residents' intake of various pesticides in their daily diet is often dozens of times that of developed countries such as the United States, Japan and the European Union. Only the intake standard of pesticide BHC is 84 times that of the United States and 15 times that of Japan in China. According to statistics, 38% of harmful residues in agricultural products exceed the national standards, and the proportion of pesticides in vegetables in some areas exceeds 8%.

(2) threats from counterfeiting. In 23, more than 3 kinds of inferior milk powder with almost zero protein content were found in Fuyang, Anhui Province. After eating this "hollow milk powder", more than 1 babies in rural areas around Fuyang became big-headed dolls with short limbs, thin bodies and large heads, and 12 babies died of severe malnutrition caused by this milk powder.

(3) threats from various unsafe factors in manufacturing, processing and packaging. Monopterus albus fed with birth control pills, bamboo shoots smoked with sulfur, vermicelli produced by the method of "hanging white pieces", bean curd skin dried in the pit, ham soaked with dichlorvos, chicken wings and chicken feet containing a lot of preservatives ... The harm caused by adding hormones to the feed alone has made the menarche of China girls advance from the average age of 14 years 2 years ago to about 1 years now. More data show that the fertility of China people has decreased, and one out of every eight couples is infertile. The average male sperm count in China is only over 2 million, which is 6% lower than the average of over 6 million in the 194s.

(4) threats from food raw materials themselves. Just two years ago, most people in China knew nothing about genetically modified food, but a lawsuit featuring Shanghai consumer Zhu Yanling and Nestle soon brought it to the fore. People immediately realized that genetically modified food is no longer a high-tech achievement that seems to be far away from daily life. It has already quietly become the raw material component of daily food such as salad oil and bean products.

Now, we live in a world that is harmed by pesticides and poisons. Due to cross-infection of biological chains, the pathogenic factors remain in almost all our foods-hormones in pork and beef, preservatives in fruits, mercury pollution in fish, carcinogens in chickens and eggs ... Oh, my God, so what shall we eat tonight? learning point