Food crisis poisonous food website came into being

With the progress and development of society, people eat more and more types of food, more and more rich in style, but the ensuing food safety problems are more and more in recent years continue to have toxic food to human body In daily life, has drawn the attention of the government and the public.

There is a famous anecdote that says that in the early 20th century, the food safety situation in the United States was very bad. One day in 1906, when U.S. President Roosevelt looked at exposing the documentary novels of the Chicago meat processing factory, which mentioned that the staff would have passed Period meat cut into pieces made into ham sausage, wash your hands and wash the water for spices and other scenes. This made Roosevelt cried disgustedly, throwing half the sausages out of the window. Later, Roosevelt met with the authors, pushed through the Pure Food and Drug Act, and created the predecessor of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In China, more than a hundred years later, Wu Heng, a graduate student at Fudan University, was inspired to name his own poisonous food warning net "throw out the window" and summarize the food safety incidents reported by the media in recent years in the hope of alerting the public. And promote the gradual improvement of food safety and solve them as soon as possible.

The original intention: do not be onlookers, "do something to change the status quo" "I'm on fire", in the latest blog post, 27-year-old Fudan University Master Wu Heng banter. Last spring, Hubei guy, who was accustomed to "playing tricks first", postponed his master's graduation for one year without prior knowledge of his parents. They posted online and solicited volunteers to become China's first poisonous food warning net. "I belonged to" being watched, "and his professional interests and personal interests were not related to food safety. Until last April, when the" Beef Paste "was exposed, he was stunned to find himself" stealing "the beef over rice at the school gate May use beef paste, although students remind the price is too cheap do not fly, but he never believed there would be fake beef.More even more frightening is that after the media coverage of the matter, he still has a lot of friends do not know, shop beef Rice bowl sales volume has not been affected.He decided to take action to collect the news reports of toxic food in recent years, made into a "bad record", at least to the surrounding friends can wake up, "do something to change the status quo" Instead of becoming indifferent onlookers.

More than one month's preparation, June 17, called "throwing the window" toxic food warning net formally launched, collecting more than 2,000 pieces of toxic food records, users can according to the provinces, the type of food for inquiries. Visitors to the site most of the time to maintain a one or two hundred or so, many friends and family from the understanding. In order to save money, Wu Heng choose to share with the server, the annual cost of 300 yuan. Until the end of April this year, investors Xue Manzi took the lead in the online reference to the site, then, several celebrities also recommend, aroused the concern of users, "just in time for industrial gelatin incident, everyone is very sensitive to food safety issues," May On the 3rd, this small website flooded more than 25,000 people in 2 hours, and the server was paralyzed. Volunteers busy for hours, replaced by a new server rent 600 yuan, only to ease the situation. The next day, the number of visits reached another record high of 650,000. Within a few days, the number of media interviewed by Wu Heng reached more than 20.

Status quo: the site became popular by the cottage refused to commercial adhere to the public welfare cottage site quickly appears, Wu Heng unexpected situation. On May 4, netizens reported to Wu Heng a cottage website called "Throw Out the Official Website". The similarity between the two is very high: Wu's website name uses "pinch out the window" pinyin initials "zccw ", The cottage site is all spell" zhichuchuangwai ";" In the face of food safety crisis, you should have the attitude, "the phrase by Wu Heng original slogan, but also impressively linked to the cottage site's page. "I do not mind if they use the" throw out the window "name of the site," but he is worried that the cottage site will use the "roll out the window," the name, to reap the commercial interests. A friend analysis, the cottage site may use the "money delete posts" profit model, extortion companies. On the eve of an interview, he wrote a blog post overnight, to provide users with identification guide. Important difference between the two is the domain name, Wu's website domain name is ".org", the user is mostly non-profit nonprofit organization, and the cottage version of the domain name using ".com", the user is mostly for-profit companies or organizations . "Non-profit website is our position," "thrown out the window," became popular, there are many business organizations to contact Wu Heng seeking cooperation, have been rejected by him, "do not want to be detached from the business, the site by their own support enough."

He explained that the site operating overhead is not large, the server annual rent but 600 yuan, now he and volunteers Xiaobai shared, he intends to continue reading Bo, will not rely on website profitability. In fact, "Throw out the window" website in the future will use delete posts profit, but also the focus of these two days users. In this regard, Wu Heng attitude is very clear, will adhere to "fair, independent and pure." Website published content from the formal media published news reports, volunteers limited to the authority to publish information, delete the administrator only two people: Wu Heng and volunteers, "White," he is sure, both Will not accept the "money delete posts" approach. In his view, "giving money to delete posts" is tantamount to "find themselves dead", he compared the credibility of the birds feathers, if the feathers have been pulled out, the credibility and influence will disappear, the site also Lost the value of the continued existence.

Motivation: Recruiting 33 volunteers in 2 days, "After 85," is very forceful. A report on the investigation of food safety issues called "Easy to Excrete Food" is the main content of the "Throw Out the Window" website. "Zuo Zhuan" refers to "easy food", the parents of the disaster did not have the heart to eat their own children, instead of using the exchange of ways to kill their own children, and now many toxic food producers do not eat their own products, but caused The result is that everyone may eat garbage, become "easy to fecal food." The report was completed by 34 volunteers in just one month, culminating in a report of 2107 articles and 2849 records of toxic food products. Each article has a set of keywords for users' inquiries. "All use of free time to complete," an Anhui volunteer "Donburi" told reporters last year in Renren see Wu Heng recruitment of volunteers news, immediately sign up. After seeing the report on food safety, he will remind his friends and family around him. This time, volunteering can expand the scope of the "reminder" and make his own small contribution. This is a young volunteer team, including Wu Heng, 34 were all "after 80" and "after 90", of which volunteers born between 1985 and 1989 became the main force, accounting for more than 70% .

In addition, more than two-thirds of volunteers are undergraduates or graduate students and one-third are newly graduated students. "Professional knowledge and experience are not important. The key is patience and enthusiasm." After that, there are 33 applicants within 2 days, of whom 27 were former strangers to Wu Heng. "We all attach great importance to this work." A volunteer's dormitory lights out every night at 11 p.m. One time, in order to fulfill the promise of aggregating information at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, he went out to the Internet cafes outside of the lights to complete the task on time. In the early morning of the interview, Wu Heng was busy until 3 am and was about to turn off the computer but found that the volunteer Xiao Bai was still hanging online and asked why. The other party said "the traffic problem is not resolved and I can not sleep." These days, there are a dozen users to volunteer Wu Heng volunteered, hoping to participate in the construction of the site, many of whom are IT practitioners, "After verification of identity, it should be absorbed.Has added, the frequency of website updates can also increase" .

Hope: the government "talks" to see the dawn, but many problems are still repeated, articles written a few years ago still apply, Wu Heng often have powerlessness, "a lot of things, the status quo Change, "Wu Heng did not deny himself because of this, he is to the site's positioning is" startling "hope that users who visited the site can have a sense of shock, which really pay attention to this issue, brainstorming, to promote the real solution to the problem. "Numb is the most horrible thing," he admitted that the website is not well produced, focused on the negative information displayed on the lack of long-term attractiveness of users, many people on the site just three minutes heat. However, progress in millimeters is also an improvement. Even if the site only strives for "three minutes," it can also sow seeds in the hearts of visitors. When the time is ripe, meetings will be held naturally and they will be motivated to promote food within its capabilities Improvement of safety issues. Like many young people, Wu Heng had lost his mind. Last spring, he was entangled in further studies or work. He was uncertain about his decision to postpone his graduation and took a year to write a thesis website.

Now, confusion finally dissipated, he understood that the choice of a good way to read Bo, we must go firmly, and the site will not give up, because it "related to responsibility", but also in the routine maintenance will not spend too much time. In fact, the dawn has already appeared. May 4, Shanghai Metro Line 10, he crowded crowded in the crowd from Yu Garden to Nanjing Road, the phone rings, is a strange landline number, the other is the Shanghai Food Safety Commission, expressed the hope that in mid-May, about He talked together. Billboard light and dark light boxes, the phone signal strong and weak, the phone lasted 10 minutes, hang up, Wu Heng could not help but smile up, "the opportunity is too rare, I have to be prepared to complete the mission," wake up Wu Hengli was very pleased that the people would get the right to speak with government departments. "The state is progressing and can listen to the voices of the people in this way."

As he wrote in his blog, "The world is not perfect, but it is worth fighting". Wu Heng believes this is a good start. There are people's enthusiastic participation, rational suggestions, the government's active response, timely intervention and food safety issues. The period of emergence will eventually disappear in the historical process of this country. And unlike the average website founder, he does not want his site bigger and stronger, "I hope one day, the site can not find the relevant news information can be added, people do not need to worry about this," Wu Constantly looking forward to the future happy to write off the website.