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Ugh,...animal porn is not cool.
this all gopes back to Factory Farms.
waste products from factory farms gettign into the ground water and the soil.
Over fertilization with manure from factory farms. Which contains all of the antibiotics, and hormones they inject the cows with, plus the chemicals they clean down with.
just google FACTORY FARM and start reading.
very interesting.
Ugh,...animal porn is not cool.
Food contamination is still within a standard deviation of the norm, hence, statistically speaking, there is no correlation between a 5% budget cut and the recent outbreaks.
Anyways...
Contamination doesn't fall under the FDA anyways. The FDA approves things like what chemicals you can use to preserve food and so forth. Actual food inspection and safety falls under the US Department of Agriculture and their various departments. The Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) handles poultry inspection for instance.
There is certainly a problem, but it is much much older than this current administration. The US has had subpar food health quality for decades.
Recent statistics (foodborne illness).
[Wikipedia, World Health Organization]
Every year there are about 76 million foodborne illnesses in the United States (26,000 cases for 100,000 inhabitants), 2 million in the United Kingdom (3,400 cases for 100,000 inhabitants) and 750,000 in France (1,210 cases for 100,000 inhabitants).
UNITED STATES
325,000 hospitalized (111 per 100,000 inhab.);
5,000 dead (1.7 per 100,000 inhab.).
FRANCE
113,000 hospitalized (24 per 100,000 inhab.);
400 dead (0.9 per 100,000 inhab.).
Salmonella is the number one killer.
Anyways salmonella is easily prevented if you prepare food like you're supposed to. A cooking temperature of 165F will kill the bacteria. Always wash fruit and vegetables before eating them raw or cooked. Never let other food come in contact with raw chicken or any meat as the bacteria easily transfer and an unusually high percentage of US chicken is contaminated with salmonella.
Of course you can't wash peanut butter or cook it at 165F (well I guess you COULD)
Food has always been unsafe. In general, there is an incentive to cut corners to increase profit, but making your customers sick is not a good business strategy.
"making your customers sick is not a good business strategy."
It doesn't hurt Frito-Lay, Coke, Pepsi, and all other junk/fast-food food mfrs, food oil fabricators, chemical food fabricators, etc, etc, aided and abetted by their very well funded, very sophisticated, sinister marketing depts and ad agencies. They pocket 10s of $Bs of profits from the they convince you to swallow.
From farm to table is a long chain, (poor) nutrition is a complex process, lots of opportunities to point fingers at others for the acts the sicken and kill food consumers, either immediately or long term.
Oh, Chumpy...
MSNBCThe federal agency that’s been front and center in warning the public about tainted spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half the food safety inspections it did three years ago.
The cuts by the Food and Drug Administration come despite a barrage of high-profile food recalls.
“We have a food safety crisis on the horizon,” said Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia.
Between 2003 and 2006, FDA food safety inspections dropped 47 percent, according to a database analysis of federal records by The Associated Press.
Told ya so...
Meanwhile, the purge continues...
FDA to announce lab closure details
More than half of the 13 field labs, which inspect food and drugs, could be shuttered
The ScientistDetails of the plan have not yet been revealed to employees or the public. But based on information PEER pieced together from FDA memos and briefings, Ruch said, it seems likely that six labs -- located in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Jefferson (Arkansas), Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle -- will remain open. He said the remaining seven facilities, in Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Juan (Puerto Rico), and Winchester (Massachusetts), could be closed.
"The FDA plans are sort of a black box," Ruch told The Scientist. "We don't know what they're evolving toward and why they'll be a better organization for it."
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