Milk and Kashgar

For anyone that's wondering, despite my love of cheese I've recently been avoiding milk and milk-based products here in China. I think that the news of the milk crisis here has spread to news outlets around the world, but just in case, here's a link to an article in the International Herald Tribune, the newspaper that I've been checking in with most often while I've been over here:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/28/asia/milk.php

On a related note, an article was just posted on iht.com that describes twenty or so new photos that were released to the New York Times that document the aftermath of what China described as a Uighur separatist terror attack in the town of Kashgar in Xinjiang province. the attack happened several days before the opening ceremony earlier on in August. Like with the milk scandal, many of the details concerning both stories were withheld as the government tried to do everything it could to appear "harmonious" with the Olympic season afoot. Here's a link to that article as well:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/29/asia/29kashgar.php

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Just found this article a moment ago--please be aware: Melamine, the plastics additive that many Chinese dairy farmers were using to boost the testable protein content in their milk, has been found in Cadbury chocolate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7641317.stm

Before buying dairy products at the supermarket, it might be wise to check into whether the food you plan on buying uses milk from Chinese farms.