The Analysis Of Food-safety Incidents’ Cultural Origins

Food-safety problems constitute a new, urgent, and multifaceted challenge toChinese people, society, and the state, involving a number of social, political, andethical issues beyond those of food safety, nutrition, and health. Food-safety problemstend to be incidents and crises, and not only affect the lives of Chinese people inharmful ways, but also pose a number of manufactured risks that are difficult tocalculate and control. This article plans to reveal the true causes of food-safety incidentand explore the causes’ far-reaching power via the cultural dimensions--objects,systems and theories, especially the ecological environment and food resource scarcity,cooperation network, imbedding in society and the national characteristics. In objects,food are scarce, in order to solve the problem of food scarcity, humans continue toexplore and promote the development of science and technology. However, in order toincrease the number of food and extend shelf life, science and technology has beenwantonly abused, evoked a series of food safety hazards. In systems, the harmful foodspread in the market via cooperative network of relationships. Networks of cooperation,namely the government-Manufacturers-vendors-transporters-Consumer barricadedcross each other network, it becomes habitual and relatively stable. Behavior and waysof thinking inside the body gradually solidified the relationship, as if an invisible handmanipulation, intentionally or unintentionally act in harmony with each other, so thatthe problem of food kept circulation in the market. Whether the relationship between anetwork of cooperation to promote food circulation problems, or problems approvalenterprise, management, supervision, or government regulation of weakness, orpreferences of market players, and even extensive transportation system and marketingsystem, are deeply fitted to the social system. If the systems are not improved, theproblem of food will still exist. In theories, in the harmful food’s production, processing,marketing, consumption of the whole process, there is an invisible force in urging. Thatpower is disorderly and willing inferiority disregard for public and private nationalcharacter.