I was glad to read on the BBC website that twenty two people have been arrested so far in conjunction with the tainted milk scandal in China. According to the story, nineteen of those arrested are managers of pastures, breeding farms, and milk purchasing stations.

The story goes on that they have discovered underground locations where the melamine was being produced, and it quotes one of the men arrested as saying that he was using the “protein powder” so that his milk would meet the protein standards of the milk company he was selling his milk to.

Is it even possible that these people are/were so ignorant that they really thought it was simply a protein powder and not a deadly toxin?