Melamine Scandal Spreads to Chinese Eggs

I read an article on CNN.com about melamine being found in Chinese eggs. It was interesting reading the article. I liked how they had multiple points of view. In one section, the article talked about how it was not going to be as big a scandal as the melamine in milk, and wasn't going to sicken as many people. Later, however, it interviewed a woman who said that eggs were just as bad as milk, because people eat just as many eggs as they do milk, and they're impossible to cut out of their daily diets. The Chinese health officials apparently reassured reporters that, although of course they were going to solve the problem as soon as possible, a child would have to eat 20 eggs a day for a week for the poison to have any effect. Ignoring these reassurances, Wal-Mart has pulled eggs out of all their Chinese stores, but the chicken-made dairy product is plentiful pretty much everywhere else.
It seems to me that people outside of China are making a bigger deal out of the scare than the Chinese people themselves. Among others, the WHO has published reports criticizing Chinese health standards, but all the Chinese people interviewed didn't seem worried. They kind of had a well,-it-won't-happen-to-me kind of attitude toward it all. My theory is that this is the rest of the world trying to put down China. I mean, the US, UN, and more are all not on good terms with them right now, so maybe they're just using this as an excuse to make China look bad. On the other hand, China might be trying to downplay this so that other countries don't make them look bad. But that'll eventually backfire on them if it turns out to be a big deal and they haven't done anything about it.
I'd like to keep following these stories to find out what happens. If more and more Chinese kids get sick, I'm guessing they're going to actually have a problem, but if the rest of the world is blowing this up to be more than it actually is, they're going to end up looking pretty sheepish. In honor of this, I'm going to put up a picture of a sheep in my little box.
Til next week!
~Marcella