We’re going that way, Chuck, fear not. But my concern would not be so much the
immediate danger of salmonella in eggs or other nasties in under-cooked meat.
We of course take personal precautions, particularly in the light recent
revelations in the British press about the prevalence of salmonella in chicken
and of other nasty bacteria in pork, for instance. But I worry more about the
mass-production of food.
For instance a film* we watched recently pointed out that in the USA there are
only 13 slaughterhouses, that 4 food companies dominate the market and that
intensive livestock farming requires the equally intensive use of various
antibiotics and other medicines to combat the inevitable disease in the
livestock – which then gets spread between livestock on their long journeys to
the abattoir. Most worrying was the presence on the FDA of senior employees of
the food companies. I’m sure that there might be perfectly reasonable motives
for this state of affairs, but I remains suspicious, particularly of any
similar moves in this country or the rest of the EU.
There are too many greedy people running large corporations around the world
for my liking.
Chris
* Food Inc, I believe. And here’s a rebuttal of that film’s points:
http://www.safefoodinc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=11
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> On 3 Jul 2015, at 13:09, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, just 2 of many such warnings in the litigation-happy US.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 7/3/2015 7:00 AM, ChrisB wrote:
>> I see. A bit like, “objects in the mirror . . .” perhaps.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>> On 3 Jul 15, at 06:40, Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> That statement is required by law here; all restaurants that serve meat or
>>> eggs where the customer can choose how well-done they want them have to
>>> print it in their menus. It refers to bacterial infections that you can
>>> get from eating undercooked meat. Some of them can kill you; I have
>>> personally gotten seriously ill from eating undercooked meat, and now I
>>> donąt eat anything that isnąt well done, no pink inside.
>>
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