Iowa passed an "ag gag" law, criminalizing anybody taking pictures of CAFOs.
As the Patriot Act lovers would say: "What have they got to hide?"
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Iowa passed an "ag gag" law, criminalizing anybody taking pictures of CAFOs.
As the Patriot Act lovers would say: "What have they got to hide?"
Another facet of the removal of LFTB.
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/city...omics_of_p.php
If you think pink slime is bad you should watch them make hot dogs.
http://ak2.picdn.net/shutterstock/vi...d-sausages.mp4
the FDA might as well not exist
USDA just made or proposed a change to pull govt chicken inspectors, and let chicken corps do their own inspections (for sick birds, etc). Self-regulation NEVER works.
Chickens are effin' nasty birds. Ain't no way that's gonna work.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
all industrial food-like subtances are nasty, pathogenic shit.
You've made me agree with you twice, now.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
gfy.:lol
Rocky Mountain OystersQuote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra Kai
48% of Chicken in Small Sample Has E. Coli
A recent test of packaged raw chicken products bought at grocery stores across the country found that roughly half of them were contaminated with the bacteria E. coli.
E. coli, which the study said was an indicator of fecal contamination, was found in 48 percent of 120 chicken products bought in 10 major cities by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit group that advocates a vegetarian diet among other things. The study results were released Wednesday.
“Most consumers do not realize that feces are in the chicken products they purchase,” said Dr. Neal D. Barnard, president of the group. “Food labels discuss contamination as if it is simply the presence of bacteria, but people need to know that it means much more than that.”
Food safety specialists said the findings were a tempest in a chicken coop, particularly because the test was so small and the E. coli found was not a kind that threatened public health.
“What’s surprising to me is that they didn’t find more,” said Dr. Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia. “Poop gets into your food, and not just into meat — produce is grown in soil fertilized with manure, and there’s E. coli in that, too.”
Dr. Doyle emphasized that the findings by the nonprofit group were different from the recent uproar over “pink slime,” the inexpensive filler containing ammonia gas or citric acid that is often added to ground beef products to kill E. coli and other bacteria. “That’s an additive,” he said.
Eight billion to nine billion chickens annually are processed for food in the United States, and the Department of Agriculture requires processors to do an E. coli test on one of every 22,000 birds slaughtered, or, for small producers, at least one a week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/he...er=rss&emc=rss
ABC News hit with $1.2B defamation lawsuit over 'pink slime'
ABC News was hit with a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit on Thursday by a South Dakota meat processor that accused it of misleading viewers into believing that a product that critics have dubbed "pink slime" was unsafe.
Beef Products Inc. sued over ABC reports aired in March and April about the company and its "lean finely textured beef."
In court papers, the company said ABC falsely told viewers that the beef product was not safe, not healthy, and not even meat, and that the reports have cost it much of its business and hundreds of millions of dollars in profit.
"The lawsuit is without merit," Jeffrey Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News, a unit of Walt Disney Co., said in a statement. "We will contest it vigorously."
Six individuals were also sued, including ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, and the reporters Jim Avila and David Kerley.
Another defendant is Gerald Zirnstein, a former U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist credited with coining the term "pink slime," and who appeared in ABC's reports. He could not be immediately reached for comment.
ABC conducted a "sustained and vicious disinformation campaign," Beef Products' lawyer Dan Webb, chairman of Winston & Strawn and a former U.S. attorney in Chicago, said at a press briefing.
"To call a food product slime is the most pejorative term that could be imagined," he said. "ABC's constant repetition of it, night after night after night, had a huge impact on the consuming public."
Beef Products accused ABC News of acting with actual malice in producing its reports, a high legal standard to meet.
"These kinds of cases are hard to win, because courts have given media many protections in reporting on matters of public concern," said Bruce Rosen, a partner and media law specialist at McCusker, Anselmi, Rosen & Carvelli in Florham Park, New Jersey.
"Constitutionally, the plaintiff has to show ABC knew what it was broadcasting was false, or had very strong reasons to know, and ignored them," he said. "It's a very hard standard to overcome. Dan Webb will have his hands full."
Beef Products is the largest U.S. producer of lean finely textured beef, a filler made from fatty trimmings that are sprayed with ammonia to kill bacteria.
The Department of Agriculture approved use of the product in ground beef in 1993, and affirmed its safety in March.
But that has failed to quiet critics, which have included food safety activists as well as animal rights organizations.
Large customers have also taken note, with companies such as McDonald's Corp., Yum Brands Inc.'s Taco Bell and supermarket chain Safeway Inc. having halted their purchases of the product.
Other courts have addressed similar claims in the past.
In 2000, a federal appeals court rejected defamation claims by Texas cattle ranchers against talk show host Oprah Winfrey over a "dangerous food" episode of her eponymous show, where she was accused of falsely depicting U.S. beef as unsafe in the wake of a British panic over "mad cow" disease.
http://mobile.chicagotribune.com/p.p...%3D0%26DPL%3D3
”even though it's pink and slimy, you still have no right to call it........”