英语演讲稿(食品安全)

Food Safety

A miracle - we are still alive

Over the past couple of years, several cases of the food scandal have been disclosed

on various media. The problem of food security has become a hot button across

society. The prevalence of food insecurity has greatly impacted public health, which

the government could not afford to ignore.

Leather milk, substandard milk powder, illegal cooking oil exposed in recent years.

It’s greatly influence our live.

There are a couple of driving forces, I would argue, behind this undesirable tide.

First, in the course of the rapid economic evolution, we ignore moral education,

giving rise to the rising rate of the problem. More importantly, the lack of adequate

regulation and punishment on those illegal producers enforces the trend.

In fact, the poisonous food associated with Japan. In China, a variety of pesticides,

antibiotics, antibiotics are from Japan. In a manner of speaking, the problem of

Chinese food should be attributed to Japan.

In 1990s, Japanese companies were optimistic about China's cheap labor and the

huge market potential. And then the Japanese companies have entered China with the

tide of reform and opening up. In 1980s, Japan began to surge in China's pesticide

export. In 1984, export volume had reached 26.5 billion yen. It’s irresponsible that

Japanese companies take pesticides and antibiotics to China. In addition, Japan did

not give a detailed description of the pesticides.

Our country also make a list of healthy food additives and some law about it.

However, many food manufacturers do not obey it and use lots of illegal food

additives .These food additives are harmful to our body .For example, sanlu milk

powder is added in illegal chemicals. If babies eat it, they will get gallstone disease.

Another hot button is illegal cooking oil. Many restaurants use the illegal cooking

oil to reduce the cost so they can get more profits .However, the illegal cooking oil

contains a large of chemicals that will cause cancer .So it is very terrible.

I observe that profits drive many food producers to commit illegal things. They aim to gain more money at the expense of consumers’ health. Second, the overuse of agricultural pesticide has resulted in the degradation of food quality. The excessive pesticide bears enormous health hazard for people. Furthermore, some food producers inject

hormones into domestic animals so as to make them grow more quickly and thus they

can turn in more profit. As a result, people’s health has been seriously disturbed.

Though many other countries, even countries like the U.S. and Japan, have also

experienced food safety crises in some periods of their development, maybe none of

them has witnessed food safety problems on such a large scale and during such a long

period of time. Actually, problematic food products had been with us for quite a long

time before we realized them and almost no single food or even drink can be claimed

absolutely safe. Flours may contain too much chemicals like brightener that can turn

them into the desirable color; meat might have been produced by animals that have

consumed chemicals to add to the red part of meat; vegetables may have too much

remnants of pesticides on their leaves; even milk and other beverages may have in

them poisonous chemicals to make them smell flagrant and tasty.

There is no denying the fact that food safety is a grave problem with which this

country is confronted. A joke goes that everyone who can survive in China can

survive in any other part of the world, which means that the test one faces in China in

terms of food safety is the gravest in the world. The most notable instance might be

the notorious San Lu milk powder scandal which has drawn considerable publicity in

the past months. Causing kidney stones among thousands of infants and deaths of

some of them, the milk powder containing overdose melamine is but one example of

numerous substandard food products in this country. While blaming those wrongdoers

and sympathizing those victims, we must examine the fundamental causes of the

problem and work out effective solutions.

Why are substandard food products so rampant in China? Poor supervision and law

enforcement might be the leading reason. Actually, we do have such departments as

the bureau of food safety supervision and administration and the bureau of industry

and commerce in various levels of the government, but are they really functioning or

fulfilling their duties? The answer is most possibly no. We do not have to go to