Ask Ed: Any truth to this forward I keep getting?
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 infront 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 chop-sticks 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 inorder 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 incase 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!
6 comments:
As far as Snopes are concerned it's a hoax. Check out this link.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/chopsticks.asp
The rate of cancer in the west is just as high as in the asian countries. They do not use chopsticks. So what can we infer of the claims? It is an article put forth by conservationists who scream "Go green"! Keep the trees. Recycle your paper and no more disposables this and that! Take the article with a grain of salt. I still use disposable chopsticks and I have never seen any milky discharges when I dip them in my clear broth...Just grow more trees to replace the ones the chinese cut down at an amazing rate :-)
Hear! Hear!
There's no truth in this.
I'd actually blogged about this in
August and some of the readers at my blog has debunked this myth.
... Just grow more trees to replace the ones the chinese cut down at an amazing rate :-)
Unfortunately trees do NOT grow as fast as the rate that they get chopped down. Not even remotely close.
Oh my! Imagine that! With every meal, when we use the tongkat ali chopsticks, we are taking aphrodisiac..And all men and women will be on heat! Maybe a workable solution for countries with declining birth rate..(like Singapore). Well done William! Write to the forum column in The Strait's Time..
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