I worked my way through college in a meat-packing plant. You don't want to
know what goes on there. I process all of my own meat or buy from local
producers now and never buy anything from large companies. I don't trust
the FDA to look after my health at all.
Tina
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:33 AM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> <
> http://www.safefoodinc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=11
> >
>
> > 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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