I don't believe in capital punishment but this is pretty gross.  They could laced the "powder" with cyanide or some other chemical agent and fuck over a lot of people.  It's a pretty big deal when privately owned companies aren't inspected and allowed to serve their products to the masses.  It's not like it was an accident, some assholes just though "Hey, let's make huge amounts of money by selling poison and calling it protein!"

On that same note, I've always hated the DSHEA in America.  Anyone with a fucking placebo can say whatever they want and sell it in stores.  You could piss in a capsule and sell it legally in America without RDA approval as long as you don't claim it cures disease.  Fuck.

I don't know it's kind of what they deserve but if we're running by that logic basically we should fry anybody in charge of a gun/cigarette company

I don't know it's kind of what they deserve but if we're running by that logic basically we should fry anybody in charge of a gun/cigarette company

actually, it's kind of completely different than that. people with any sort of a fucking brain can realize the potential damage a gun or cigarette can do. on the other hand, I'm sure mothers aren't expecting baby formula to be lethal.

death sentance is never the answer, no matter how gross the crime.

theres no need to kill them

stick them in prison for the rest of their lives but I don't think execution is the responsible thing to do. Its partially the governments fault for allowing that shit to get through. It wasn't like those dudes KNEW that crap was going to cause deaths and illness, they were just being incredibly greedy and stupid as hell.

this is pretty big news in new zealand because it involved fonterra. i guess for all the things they could use the death sentence for, poisoning hundreds of thousands of babies is one of the least extreme. i think china would've done it anyway, or might've done something more extreme if this wasn't on the world stage because i listen to all the propaganda

wow i have heard nothing about this. uhhh as a rule i'm against the death penatly completely though, but i don't know anything about this yet. time to go and look.

Dont waste human resources and food on people who don't deserve them. I say kill them both. And quickly.

yeah, I don't think they should be killed. Being sent to prison for life would be the better punishment.

I'm against death sentence, and even though in this case they were very greedy, and didn't care about what could happen, you can't compare that to a first degree murder. I hope someone will intervene before they get killed.

The death sentence is a barbaric answer. Life in prison is the answer. Death is too easy an ending. Let them suffer for their crimes.

kill the people who kill people!!!

Yes suffer and waste resources, food, medicine, all that could be used on people deserving of it.

death represents the loss of a considerable investment of resources, i have heard this as the evolutionary reason for grief

Just to clear up (and so I can add to the first post), I couldn't find this- did anyone know their reason for the tainted milk? Was it an accident or not? I've heard people say it was and people say it wasn't.

if you add melamine to cheap milk it looks expensive. pretty sure they did it on purpose.
 

There's plenty of people who don't deserve resources being spent on them, and many of them aren't even in jail, should we kill them all too?

@Cray: If you commit a crime that leads to the death of another person and you KNOWINGLY did so. You no longer ought to be allowed the limited resources this planet is already struggling to produce. Hell, I probably dont deserve them either but I follow the law and do my best not to kill other people. k thanx

Just to clear up (and so I can add to the first post), I couldn't find this- did anyone know their reason for the tainted milk? Was it an accident or not? I've heard people say it was and people say it wasn't.

The second article gives more details.  The people in charge of the company that produced melamine and the company that added it to the milk knew the powder was laced and they even tried to recall it when it was too late.  Obviously greed was involved.  Melamine is cheap to produce and falsely tests positive for protein.  Mix a little bit of protein and a little bit of melamine and suddenly you have a cheap formula to add to watered down milk.  Money in the bank.  The first article states the melamine is impossible to test for until recently so they thought they could get away with it.

Yes suffer and waste resources, food, medicine, all that could be used on people deserving of it.

In America, it costs more to kill someone than other countries which pretty much do it overnight.  Some people sit in death row for decades and they wastes thousands of dollars in court cases, appeals, and lawyers.  Costs for guards and security are higher than other prisons and the equipment required to kill someone plus the specialist needed to do it are also ridiculously expensive.  It's cheaper to incarcerate someone for a life sentence (which is actually 30 something years and then parole although multiple life sentences do stack) than to kill them.