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Subscribe to RSSBarring any last-minute delays, U.S. food safety inspectors will begin testing Monday for six new strains of potentially deadly E. coli bacteria to be banned from certain cuts of raw beef.
The move implements long-delayed federal regulations aimed at a group of E. coli bacteria collectively known as “the Big Six,” bugs capable of causing severe infection and death.
Under the new rules, the six additional strains of E. coli will be classified as adulterants on par with the better-known E. coli O157:H7, which is often linked to serious illnesses tied to hamburger. The new strains include E. coli O26, O111, O103, O121, O45 and O145.
Meat producers such as Cargill Inc., who have long opposed expanded testing, said they are ready to begin.
“We are prepared for USDA to collect whatever samples they wish to collect for non-O157 STEC sampling at our beef harvesting (slaughter) facilities starting June 4,” Cargill spokesman Michael Martin wrote in an email to msnbc.com.
Beginning Monday, it will be illegal to sell raw beef trimmings and non-intact beef products, such as tenderized steaks, if they’re contaminated with any of the six new strains of E. coli, according to documents from the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The agency indicated it plans in the future to expand routine testing for those strains to additional raw beef products, including ground beef.
Like E. coli O157:H7, the six new strains are capable of producing bloody diarrheal illness that can lead to kidney failure and death. In 2010, for the first time, the non-O157 strains of what are known as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, or STECs, were responsible for more infections in the U.S. than E. coli O157:H7, according to federal health officials.
The non-O157 STECs caused 451 confirmed infections that year, including 69 people who were hospitalized and one death. E. coli O157:H7 caused 442 infections, 184 hospitalizations and two deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many illnesses are never reported, however, and the agency estimates that non-O157 E. coli strains cause an estimated 113,000 illnesses and 300 hospitalizations a year.
The new rules were announced last September by Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, the USDA’s undersecretary for food safety. Testing originally was set to begin in March. The most recent delay was only the latest in a saga that started in 2007, when food safety advocates and federal officials first began discussing whether the lesser-known strains of E. coli should be regarded as adulterants, too.
Meat industry officials vehemently opposed the move, saying that current efforts to identify E. coli O157 were adequate to screen for the other strains as well.
“The science tells us that the food safety protocols and interventions we have in place for E. coli O157:H7 also mitigate the other six STECs,” Martin wrote.
Beef importers from outside the U.S. also objected, saying the new regulations would impede trade.
Some in the meat industry already were testing for the non-O157 STECs. Costco already tests for the pathogens. Also, Beef Products Inc., the South Dakota firm at the center of the "pink slime" scandal, has long tested its lean finely textured beef products for the presence of the additional strains of E. coli in addition to O157:H7. Spokesman Craig Letch said that practice continues, even after the company shuttered three of its four plants.
The new testing requirement is a victory for Bill Marler, a Seattle food safety lawyer who petitioned FSIS to have the “Big Six” strains declared adulterants and then threatened to sue the USDA when the agency didn’t respond promptly.
He pointed to the 1994 classification of E. coli O157:H7 as an adulterant as a turning point for food safety in U.S. and said the new rules would have a similar effect.
“(It) dramatically changed the landscape of how safe our meat supply is for the better,” he said. “This is another step in getting this done correctly.”
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Oh how the bacteria like the altered flora of the cows stomachs fed corn on factory farms.
@tom:
Absolutely!
It all traces to the massive switch to using high-intensity cattle feedlots in the early-1980s, and what happens is that the digestive systems of cattle which are fed high levels of corn and other grains change pH and become more acidic, which is the ideal growing condition for particularly gnarly strains of E. coli bacteria . . .
This does not occur when cattle are fed various grasses and eat what they were designed to eat . . .
Yet another problem, which is the direct consequence of the proliferation of high-intensity cattle feed lots, as well as corporate megafarm chicken, turkey, and pork factories, which are the fowl and porcine analogs of the high-intensity bovine feedlot, is that runoff from such factories inevitably gets into the ground water or is carried by various wild animals from these factories to adjacent produce fields, in particular fields where leafy vegetables are grown and harvested . . .
For this reason, leafy vegetables are off the Baldenario Approved for Novices Menu™ beginning in early-Spring and continuing until late-Fall, which is the time when leafy vegetable production moves from the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico to California, where as is obvious from ongoing news reports when leafy vegetable production moves to California, the proximity of high-intensity fowl, bovine, and porcine megafarms virtually guarantees that there will be incidences of E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, and other gnarly bacterial poisoning problems with leafy vegetables . . .
None of this stuff was a big problem until the early-1980s, which curiously was when high-fructose corn syrup was introduced on a massive scale due to the work a few years earlier by demented Japanese chemists who devised an high temperature, catalytic and enzymatic Frankenprocess for producing what might be the most dangerous and lethal mass-produced chemical on this planet, since the human body and mind have no ancestral knowledge of high-fructose corn syrup, hence it is sent to the liver for processing as a likely toxin or poison and is all the more lethal because it does not trigger the physiological "satisfaction" cues that help the brain determine when there is a sufficient amount of sweet stuff, hence there is no current and immediate need or desire to consume more sweet stuff for a while, which in the case of high-fructose corn syrup has the consequence that naive consumers continue to drink or to eat more junk food "sweetened" with high-fructose corn syrup . . .
Add the Frankenseed manufactured by Monsantao et al., and the result is a generation of younger folks who are obese; have diabetes or soon will have it; and have asthma and other food allergies, all of which problems were rare and infrequent prior to the early-1980s when the patently evil Frankenscientists and megacorporate Frankenfood promoters met in secret with the pharmaceutical industry and devised the ongoing scheme to injure and kill us, slowly but surely, while emptying our purses and wallets, really . . .
Really! :-o
E. coli brought to you by the factory farms and genetically modified seed.
Than the problem lies with the dairy farms that are nothing more than cowpens like California has a lot of not in the cows that can roam and graze in the fields?
Another reason they're having these new, heartier strains of bacteria cropping up is because they systematically inject ALL beef cattle with antibiotics, despite whether or not they are sick. It takes about 3 days of biology 101 to realize what the end result will be with this approach.
Just look at some of the staph and flesh eating bacteria strains that are in hospitals now. Only the top 1, 2 antibiotic drugs in the world now can kill them. Penicillin, the once miracle drug, cannot destroy a lot of these strains nowadays.
D.Man hits the nail on the head.
Bandenario I had to stop reading around paragraph 4 when you go off-topic on your conspiracy theories. There is a fundamental lack of understanding about catabolism as well as genetic modification in those last few paragraphs. However, you were pretty accurate with factual information up to that point though!
@Mmm:
Glad you enjoyed the first part! :-)
Regarding what you characterized as "conspiracy theories", it is a fact that high-fructose corn syrup did not exist on this planet until sometime in the late-1950s when it was concocted by two American chemists but at the time was not something which could be manufactured in vast quantities. However, in the 1970s a group of demented Japanese chemists devised a truly evil high-temperature, catalytic and enzymatic Frankenprocess which made it possible to manufacture high-fructose corn syrup in massive quantities, which soon thereafter led to high-fructose corn syrup replacing sugar (a.k.a., sucrose) in beverages and everything else that did not specifically require using sugar, which among other things led to many of the US candy and baking companies moving their manufacturing plants and bakeries either to Canada or Mexico, since sugar is not subject to outrageous subsidies and price controls in those countries, which is another aspect of the overall problem . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup#Production
Hershey continues to make its milk chocolate bars in the US, but read the label for Hershey Chocolate Syrup and you will discover that it is made with high-fructose corn syrup . . .
In contrast, Nestle has switched to making its Nesquik chocolate syrup with sugar, and it certainly is tasty, although it is made in Canada, but so what . . .
Regarding the GMO/GE Frankenstuff, Monsanto, Aventis (acquired by Bayer AG), Bayer CropScience, Dupont, Syngenta, et al. have managed by design to adulterate, toxify, and poison most of the staple grains on this planet, and with its recent acquisition of Seminis in 2005, which is headquartered in Mexico and is the largest supplier of food crop seed on this planet, Monsanto now is focusing diligently on adulterating, toxifying, and poisoning every strain and variation of corn (a.k.a., "maize") in Mexico, where for all practical purposes Mexico is what one accurately can call the "Cradle of Maize" on this planet . . .
In our great nation, it is possible for someone to write just about anything when one has a computer, keyboard, and web connection, but the facts are (a) that Monsanto et al. devised a way to put insecticide, pesticide, and no telling what else inside corn and other staple food crops and (b) that Monsanto devised a way to alter staple food crops so that the crops tolerate Monsanto's Roundup® herbicide . . .
For a clue to some of the consequences of this patently evil Frankenscience, I refer you to LibertyLink variety 601 rice (a.k.a., "LL601 rice") and Starlink corn, which "inadvertently" were released into the general environment and subsequently have become what one might call a "back door" for introducing GMO/GE technologies into the wild, which most likely will be a planetary adulteration that cannot be undone . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_rice#US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize#StarLink_corn_controversy
If you listen to the highly-indoctrinated and brainwashed genetic engineers, molecular biologists, and other Frankenscientists who devise all this patently evil and gnarly stuff, then for example you will observe that they have few problems suggesting that somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is absolutely perfect in every respect, but what they do not reveal is that there always is residual genetic material, both from the host and donor, where for a while this residual genetic material colloquially was called "noncoding DNA" or "junk DNA" but now after more diligent and less brainwashed folks who actually engage honestly and productively in science have done a bit of research, it is becoming obvious that the so-called "junk DNA" is vitally important . . .
SCNT is more focused on Frankencloning--which is one of the most heavily promoted new fields of Frankenscience and is a virtually guaranteed way for FDA and USDA bureaucrats who grant Frankenclones "generally recognized as safe (GRAS)" status to have lucrative post-bureaucratic job opportunities working for the most patently evil corporations on this planet--but the same thing happens with gene splicing and so forth and so on, where extra stuff "tags along" and metabolically and physiologically does strange and bizarre things to humans that nobody on this planet has the ability at present to understand . . .
When I was in elementary school in the mid-1950s, in the entire school there might have been one obese child, one diabetic child, and one child who had asthma or allergies, and the cafeteria served peanut butter cookies several times each week . . .
This generally continued to be the way it was until the 1980s beginning very quickly after (a) megafood corporations started using high-fructose corn syrup for everything and (b) high-intensity cattle feedlots became common place, which also was when the first large-scale incidents of particularly gnarly E. coli food poisoning started occurring in our great nation . . .
[SOURCE: http://www.about-ecoli.com/ ]
More recently, there was a multinational incident of a different type of gnarly E. coli food poisoning caused by another strain or type of E. coli (specifically E. coli O104:H4), and it was traced in part to contaminated seed grown in Egypt, which might be one of the first documented incidences of global food terrorism, although best wishes on finding any official government source who will acknowledge this "on the record" . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_outbreak#Origin
It took a while for obesity and diabetes rates in young children to accelerate, but it did not take more than a decade of high-fructose corn syrup, and as Monsanto et al. increased the prevalence of GMO/GE Frankencrops, it did not take so long for rates of childhood asthma and allergies to accelerate, either, where today at the dawn of the early-21st century most children, adolescents, and young adults either (a) carry some type of asthma rescue inhaler or allergy medicine (over-the-counter or prescribed) or (b) know someone who does, and schools now have "peanut, tree nut, egg, soy, and milk free zones", which is one of the biggest clues that something is patently wrong . . .
And then there is yet another of Monsanto's "death gifts" to the people of this planet--specifically, recombinant bovine somatropin (rBST) . . .
[NOTE: In the following wikipedia entry for "bovine somatropin", it is important to read everything and to focus on the inconsistencies among the various bureaucratic organizations, purveyors, courts, and so forth and so on . . . ]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin#Human_health
Using antibiotics to promote growth in food animals and for other reasons in agriculture is having obviously disastrous consequences on the ecosystem, ans so forth and so on . . .
It is a combination of greed, psychopathology, and patently bad science, and it literally is injuring and killing the people of this planet, slowly but surely, really . . .
Really! :-o
P. S. When the indisputable facts of the matter include a patently evil company like Montanto conspiring via intense lobbying and post-bureaucratic job opportunities (which are among the most obviously devious ways of bribing federal bureaucrats), I think this certainly meets every reasonable standard for prosecuting these Frankenfood purveyors of death one mouthful at a time for committing and perpetuating ongoing and vastly egregious RICO Act conspiracies, which will happen sooner or later, because the common folk are beginning to understand what these patently evil psychopaths, bureaucrats, truly demented Frankenscientists, and their cohorts are doing, really . . .
Really! :-o
Yes, you are referring to GMO corn and soy, I assume Tom, fed to most factory farmed animals which then can produce a "mysterious" Bt toxin bacterial gastro-intestinal infection and results in our guts making pesticides for ever and ever (resulting in "mysterious" medical problems), unless you know how to reverse it.
Which it can be reversed (with a LOT of hard work) but why not just avoid it by not eating factory farmed meat in the first place?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/29/genetically-modified-crops-insects-emerged.aspx?e_cid=20120529_DNL_artNew_1
You know, I am a conservative republican, meat eating, big-business kind of guy....
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But Jesus H Christ Cargill - could your statement be any less enthusiastic?
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And hey - here's a tip - how about you *voluntarily* test for all the stuff that you know will kill us? Sure, it seems more profitable to lobby Congress and delay new laws; but understand that you are taking the side of poisoning or killing your customers. That seems a bit short-sighted.
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When I was a kid cows ate grass in my neighbors field. We bought meat at a local butcher. I don't recall my mother ever complaining about the high cost of beef - and this was in the 70's when food was a significantly larger percentage of a household budget.
Meat eaters have to learn to cook it to a high enough temperature.
This is just more massive overreach by the liberal, lefty, government.
More "excessive" regulations that will just keep the job creators from making a fair profit, and put more power and money into the hands of liberal, lefty, libtards.
Why should I pay to inspect the food that YOU eat? Take some personal responsibility and inspect YOUR OWN meat!
Dumb dumb dumb. I work in the food industry, there are very good reasons for all that regulation. I've often said if people knew how their food was being produced they'd never eat again.
Your the moron Sam. Inspect your own meat? Explain how inspecting for the 6 biggest strains of deadly E Coli is "excessive." Inspect your own meat? Consumers don't have the ability to test for E Coli. Food safety isn't a left or right issue so don't try and politicize it.
So true Emwardo1, some people have nothing else to think about or do. crazy is as crazy thinks
Gee Sam, I sure hope you were being sarcastic.
Sam, if a giant meteor hits earth, are you going to blame that on "liberal lefty (democrat) governments", as well?
I would like to debate it with you, but you seem to be about 5 tons shy of a full load upstairs...
Sam .. they should make people like you be test dummies in a meat packing facility where you can sample the meat before it is sent out to us. Whatever happened in this coutry to people being responsible for their products before they are released to the public. I worked for a long while in child safety products and ewverything we shipped had to pass QC BEFORE it was shipped. Now days it is in the consumer hands before they find out it is tainted. One year there we recalled ove a million punds of ecoli tainted beef which is really mind boggling. Maybe putting a stop to the pink slime will go a long way in curbing recalls unless you believe all that crap was 100% safe after the processed it.
Not an intelligent person, are you?
Inspect your own meat... HA! Brilliant Sam indeed! Looks like you hooked a few that believe you.
Seriously, it's nice to see common sense regulations get through the political hurdles and go to work protecting our lives and those of our families.
I was wondering when I would run across the first wingnut to cry about "OVER-REGULATION", DESPITE the fact that some companies are ALREADY checking for these insidious little pests. And speaking of insidious little pests, Sam, it seems that supporting bacteria is really the only culture that you have. Just WHY is it that people that seem to know the least know it the loudest?
Come on folks, you're better than this!
It's too bad that there's not a sarcasm/satire font to help some people recognize it. Sam is deliberately parodying the anti-regulation bleats of many rightwingers to show how stupid it sounds.
Unfortunately, many of them sound make such crazy-ass statements that they sound like parodies of themselves, so it's gotten harder and harder to distinguish humor from sincere ignorant lunacy these days.
only one guy got the joke.
That's the problem with lampooning conservatives. You try to be over the top enough so that people get the joke, but you end up just sounding like all the other wingnuts.
Kudos, Parrothead.
Oops. two.
It is hard to make jokes about things that aren't that funny.
What is amazing to me is how far the oligarchs will go to justify greed.
"Sam, if a giant meteor hits earth, are you going to blame that on "liberal lefty (democrat) governments", as well?"
Who else? If we get hit by a meteor, there's no doubt in my mind that it will be retribution from Jesus for letting gay people marry their dogs.
"It is hard to make jokes about things that aren't that funny."
Teabirthers aren't funny? Been out of the country?
@Sam: I fell for it too! I've seen so many wingnut make comments that I was totally expecting someone to make a comment like that...AND MEAN IT! lol
I thought this article was about checking beef products for E-coli, not about leftists, rightists and politics. Some people will write anything to get a lick in with their political agenda. I would like to know that if I eat my steak rare, I will not get some kind of horrid disease from it. So examine all you want and get that bad meat off the market.
Yeah, I live in the country. Not all of us are shallow-minded fruitcakes. Teabirthers seem sad and malcontented, but rarely funny. Well, their religion is funny but that is another subject altogether.
@serenity, people like sam doesn't even know what an agenda is let alone a political one. They write like this: M&^%#* leftist G&&^^% liberals they shouldG&$* )(*& and I don't have a clue!!! Than they expect you to sympacize with them. Well here you go, Aah poor baby.
Gee Serenity, are the political barbs hitting too close to home?
Our food safety has been politicized for decades. From around the time Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to the time Donald Rumsfeld forced his buddy Ronald Reagan to push his aspartame through the FDA, even if it meant replacing the head of the agency, right on up to where we are today with corporatized feed lots and bio-mis-engineered crops.
If you are so concerned about your rare steak, I suggest you not vote for those who would like to see our regulatory agencies disappear in favor of a self-policing corporate oligarchy.
It is really hard to project sarcasm and irony on the internet. I was going to go with something about the government taking away my god given right to eat deadly bacteria.
The thing is, it would not be that unusual to see some "less-government" right-winger claiming that very same injustice.
onemanvolt: Nope you got me all wrong. I don't want to hear politics, politics and more politics from anyone in all the cotten-picken articles which are written. Holy cow (no pun) I am getting sooooooo sick of politics and it's only May. I will vote for the person I think is best for America, and I will not be told who or what to choose. But this article is about beef - not politics, so why make it so?
Gee Serenity, do you even know where you are? I think it's time for a station identification:
You are on MSNBC, The PLACE for Politics!
Get a grip and get a clue, hon!
Holy cow (no pun intended), what kind of a mess have we created when we have to fight for safe food? And how long will something like this last before it's taken away if programs like the EPA, FDA, USDA, and other protection services are gutted? I'm not saying they're flawless, far from it. But how to we protect ourselves against companies like Cargill that resist improved inspections until they're forced to comply? I'm eating far less meat than I ever did, but even the plant-based food is liable to sicken or kill us when this stuff gets through without sufficient inspection. These food companies don't care about our health, they only care about how much money they can make and hope for the best, liability-wise.
The ongoing e. coli O145 outbreak, which has
killed a small child and sickened many others, is a strain from
human sewage. http://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2010/ecoli_O145/
In 2010, e. coli O145 was identified in an Arizona farm as the
human strain which caused an outbreak of disease which sickened
33 people. The source was sewage from campers in a nearby RV
park which flowed into an irrigation ditch which fed the romaine
lettuce farm.
http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/ucm235477.htm
first pink slime, then meat glue, and now this, throw hfcs in to the mix and its makes more sense than ever to look for locally grown grass fed beef and real sugar. + it tastes a lot better. Just by ones a coke bottled in Mexico with no hfcs and u taste the difference...... And nothing to beat real grass fed beef.Smile life is short.
Pink Slime.
I'm pretty sure that's what Jack In The Box tacos are made from. They're not mixing any real beef in there with it either. mmmmmmmmm....good.
You do know Micky Ds makes all their own burgers. There are a great many of us truckers that halled what they use to make their patties from. Their are also a great many truckers that have been there and you cannot get us to go into a Micky Ds for any burgers, but the fish and salads are ok.
"...Meat producers such as Cargill Inc., who have long opposed expanded testing, said they are ready to begin."
Ya know....whenever the an effort is made to make the environment/water/food safer the typical cry from the producers is that "prices will go up". Is that the best they can do...is that supposed to scare us into inaction?
I'll pay more for better/cleaner food and water.
How can we get rid of E. coli, when Monsanto engineers it into the animals and plants?
Make sure you cook all your meat well done.
Got proof of that claim?
Actually you need to bring the internal temperature to at least 160 degrees, that will kill these critters.
Why should you have to? Thats a cop out because they know its there in some cases. You can eat rare beef that is not infected with ecoli or other bacteria that are not there in natural beef. I have not bought any beef from a supermarket of chain store in over 15 years. I grind my own burger because I know all the beef I buy is from a farm that does not force feed their cows.
Buy locally produced grass fed beef. Stop eating there crap. Cargill and Monsatan can go suck a fat one...
"...Meat producers such as Cargill Inc., who have long opposed expanded testing, said they are ready to begin."
Where are the occupy protesters, when they can do some good? Why do the people of this country (myself included) allow the corporations to hold so much power? Then the politicians allowed them to fight the protection of the people! I hope everyone who reads this article drops an email to their representatives and asks for answer.
No offense to any of you, however 90 percent of you truly have no idea what your talking about. Just because you read a grass-fed beef book or watched Food Inc, doesn't qualify you as a meat genius. The facts are that the new testing will cost more to implement not so much for Cargill, but for the small producers. Oh by the way the e-coli the USDA is testing for is caused from one of three things on the carcass. Milk, Fecal matter or ingestia. Also some of you "experts" may not know, but a majority (greater than fifty percent) of the ground beef in the supermarkets comes from old herd cows and bulls (which are raised on pasture). Not confinement fed fat cattle. Here are my tips for making sure you have a safe hamburger to eat, cook it completely.
Still, 90 percent not knowing what they are talking about is a much lower percentage than most internet forums. Congratulations, everyone!
You can't kill the toxins the bacteria produce.
This is one reason why I gave up eating red meat, it's disgusting and I feel better overall. The whole pink slime thing was the last straw for me!
One pound of ribeye medium, please, with a large baked potato smothered with real high-cholesterol butter. Don't trim the fat off the edge. Oh, and throw in a side of sauteed mushrooms.
Road Warrior--Amen, brother! Just make sure it is cooked at least to medium.
Remember when the "science community" came out and said that eating eggs was so bad for us, it was like a sentence of death? And, how the same bunch came out just a little over a year later (I think--it was too difficult to seriously worry about) and completely reversed their stance?
Now, we have the meat industry doing exactly the same thing, only in reverse!
I am not-so-slowly coming to the conviction that the "average American" cannot--under any real-world circumstances--trust ANY of them.
Yeah, I used to order medium rare, but medium is a better choice. I'm getting hungry reading my own post. I have been on a diet, but I think I'll skip one day and go by the grocery store this evening for a ribeye :)
roadwarrior, top it all with some heavycream/peppercorn sauce and wash down with some heavy stout. latest news on butter is that once again its good for you. enjoy
I thought medium rare is perfectly safe as long as it's a steak and not ground beef?
Sounds good to me.
E. coli eats $hit!
I smell bacon.
Wrapped around a filet mignon.
Wow, the U.S.Inspectors are going to start looking out for the American people? Very good news if true.
do you know how few inspectors there are? they'll never be able to test as often as they should.... according to the GOP we don't need gov't interference and all those pesky inspectors....
Beware if they get in control again. There will be nothing safe to eat unless you grow it yourself. Remember corporations are people says the GOP Supreme court
Well, we would hire some more, but they would want vacation and insurance and stuff. Commies.
You all have to forgive Sam, he's on Donald (go make it in China) Trumps payroll.
If the repukes had it their way there would be ZERO testing. Their motto: Keep gov't out of our lives, OH, wait, unless we need small business money, or FEMA money, then, yeah....give, give.. Ask OK.'s Gov. Mary (hypocrite Fallin) She wrote the book on that.
Outsource OUR jobs and KEEP your tax breaks. Have abortion listed in your health ins plan for employees, LOSE YOUR'S.. YEP, TRUE, watch them ALL vote for that last year...way to go country PFFT
shades of The Jungle -- if we really knew what was happening we would shudder every time we took a bite of food.
interesting story: my husband's uncles were poor farmers during the Great Depression who raised their own food and shot rabbit and squirrel and caught fish and made their own "home brew" and lived into their late 80s -- died of "old age" -- not cancer, etc.
makes you wonder...
Thanks Bill Marler. Your name will be remembered by future generations of Americans whose lives were saved by these long overdue regulations.
They would probably like to grind the beef with the floor scrapings if you let them.
Keep in mind that even with testing, there will still be recalls. Nothing is 100% safe. Nothing.
The tests only test a sample of product. Normally 10-25 grams. Which gives a % confidence that the product is relatively free of pathogens. Say 95%. Or if they up the sample size or number of samples, it might get up to 99% or 99.9%. But that will NOT stop the organisms from being there. Or from individuals from getting sick.
Oh, and don't kid yourself. It will happen from locally grown meat and produce as well. It just won't have the reach as conventionally grown and distributed products.
There is @!$%# in your burger and you are still willing to eat it just as long it is heated to a specific temperature....
Several years ago I ate a burger(from a popular chain) and picked up e-coli infection (painful, bloody, the whole thing). Since that time I have been on every conceivable type of antibiotic and hospitalized once because the e-coli infection could not be killed. It's living in me and is drug resistant. A doctor recently adviced me to switch to alkaline foods to change body PH to create a hostile environment for the bug.
I run a constant fever, have non-stop UTI's, ache all over, and have lost most of my energy. The CDC couldn't even help.
It's about darned time some regulations were put into effect to test for and control the newer strains of e-coli. Maybe someone else won't have to go thru this.
Hey I thought the capitalist model was that private industry will take care of it or they will go out of business...many companies have killed people with their products and they're still around...hmmmm
The markets work, libtard. If you kill your customers, they won't buy from you anymore. See? It's "self correcting".
That was definitely better sarcasm, though the term "libtard" is still going to make people think you're for real. And the fact that people like Ron Paul actually say and believe this sort of thing.
Rick 546dip@!$%# Your right the market will take care of them. All you have to do is look at BPI (the makers of Pink Slime). Your ignorance is amazing, it's as if you think these beef producers are trying to kill people. Here's some advise don't make stupid comments about something you know nothing about and do a little research on your own. God gave you a brain for a reason.
@Rick, all E-boli that people get infected with does not come from the Rancher or Meat Plant. A resturant or fast food stand can cause food poisoning with unsanitary conditions or by incorrect storage temperatures, or leaving something out to long before it is prepared, or a nasty cook. I'm not saying you can't get food poisoning at home but you have a better chance of getting it from eating out. At home one watches their food closer, but what about that stranger in the resturant. Do you really trust him/her?