Recently, kidney calculi cases were found in infants in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Jiangsu. It is reported that all these sick babies have eaten Sanlu milk powder. Now, Sanlu milk powder has responded, acknowledging that some products have been contaminated, and has announced the product recall.

According to common sense, Sanlu milk powder must be considered as the root cause of disease. However, Sanlu milk powder is not only eaten by these babies. Why won't there be more babies in kidney calculi? The pathogenesis of infant kidney calculi is also a mystery to be solved urgently by medical institutions. Some people may say that this is like injecting penicillin, but not everyone will have a drug reaction. But food is not medicine, so there should be no problem as long as it is milk powder that meets the hygiene standards. Do you still need to indicate on the milk powder package that "this milk powder has side effects, please pay attention when eating"? The essence of the baby kidney calculi incident is that something went wrong where it shouldn't. It is precisely because of this that the response of Sanlu milk powder manufacturers should not only make a statement, but should cooperate with the investigation responsibly and do a good job in the aftermath.

However, diseases are often not only medical technical problems, but also social problems. People who have become rich in recent years have begun to suffer from the disease of wealth; However, we still can't deny that some diseases are still the patents of the poor. The "stone baby incident" is easily reminiscent of the "big head doll incident" of that year. These two highly similar things can only show that children from poor families suffer early.

As long as we analyze this incident, we can see that those unfortunate babies are poor children. At that time, the price of fake milk powder in Fuyang was not high, so it became the first choice for rural babies. In the past two years, everyone has started to choose brands, but the consumption level has not improved. Sanlu is an old brand. According to the report of Xinhuanet, it only sells 18 yuan /400g in Gansu, which looks "good quality and low price". This is indeed the cheapest milk powder in China except Fuyang fake milk powder. Compared with the first-line brands such as Nestle, Dumex and Mead Johnson in the baby milk powder market, the price of Sanlu milk powder is really cheap. These first-line brands generally have 200 yuan's 900g 1 can, and some of them are more expensive, and the price is basically about 5 times that of infant formula with stones. If the baby has a good appetite and drinks one can a week, the cost of milk powder for one month is about 1000 yuan. This level of consumption is probably beyond the reach of many poor families.

Now that children are scarce under family planning, ordinary parents will do their best for their children. I believe that the parents of these "stone babies" are also the same. Buying cheap milk powder for children is not because they don't love children, but because children are poor and can't afford the best and safest milk powder.

People in China have the psychology of "buying expensive goods at ease". If the price becomes the judgment basis of food quality, then this is undoubtedly the most cruel standard. In the stone baby incident, unfortunately, we can see that this is indeed a reality that happens around us. At least in the eyes of the public, in today's highly developed media, we have not heard of those first-line brands of milk powder that make children sick.

In this matter, we can certainly condemn the irresponsibility of the relevant manufacturers and government departments. But what can this change? China is so big, there are always so many businesses, and so many grass-roots government departments demand "low standards and wide requirements" for themselves. Of course, the most important thing is that there will always be a huge group of poor consumers, who are the terminal to digest all cheap and inferior goods and eventually get sick or even die at a low price. They don't have more money to buy health and safety, so their homes, words and deeds and even diseases are branded as poor people. When the first-level local government can't even do the basic responsibility and basic guarantee of food safety, the income gap constitutes the inequality of the starting point. Just like those "big-headed dolls" and these "stone babies", they have suffered more than others since birth. If you lose at the starting point, there will be no more real and shocking teaching materials.