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Subject: FW: DONT USE DISPOSABLE CHOPSTICKS
This is a true case, if you don't believe try the following test:
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 in case 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!"
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Easy.. dun eat at those stalls who use wooden chopsticks to serve Customers,
including some chinese restaurants. if they sell yr favourite food then too bad.
Use yr own chopsticks to eat in office.
Ask the hawkers uncle or auntie for Normal chopsticks and not the disposable one.
(You will be doin the opposite that nowadays people do when eating outside, they ask for the new disposable chopsticks that comes wrapped up.)
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Originally posted by MooKu:har? trees are renewable resources?
sustainable forestry
trying to
keep things in balance - when trees are cut down to make
chopsticks, new trees are planted or regrow naturally.
some tree species grow very fast so can be used for wood products as opposed to some that takes 10-100years to grow.
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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!"
looks more like a smear china campaign to me,if this article is to be taken any seriously,should such a professor bring up such subjective claims?
Edited by Aveme 27 Jun `06, 3:20PM
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k as i suspected,false.
It is a smear campaign against china
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/chopsticks.asp
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Originally posted by alexkusu:sustainable forestry
trying to keep things in balance - when trees are cut down to make
chopsticks, new trees are planted or regrow naturally.
some tree species grow very fast so can be used for wood products as opposed to some that takes 10-100years to grow.oh...
hmm but if i manage to find a pair of chopsticks that comes in a box and is easy to hold, i'll still prefer bringing out my own i guess... wooden chopsticks always have to peel away the splinters.
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Originally posted by MooKu:oh...
hmm but if i manage to find a pair of chopsticks that comes in a box and is easy to hold, i'll still prefer bringing out my own i guess... wooden chopsticks always have to peel away the splinters.splinters are there for good luck ma
you know how people snap chopsticks and rub them together? that is to get rid of splinters...can buy 4D frm the amount of splinters ma
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there is once my m-i-law had kopi "da bao" @counter. coz she wants the kopi in disposable foam cup. then she will occupy a table to drink her "da bao" kopi. 5 mins later, the "waiter" approached us..."did u bring this kopi from other place? coz here not allow outside foods & drinks."
she replied, i bought from counter.
after the "waiter" went off with slight blackie face, she told us that these kopi shop is very unhygiene, look @those glasses they using...so dirty. Esp. after she had eye-witness how the kopi shops cleaner wash the glasses.
we feel awkward but
she is not wrong by doing that. sigh.... she even insist us to
drink from those disposable ware.
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