GOVERNMENT IN ACTION
We are perplexed by the steps that the FDA or maybe the Agriculture
dept. takes when it imagines that they have found something amiss with our food supply. I have assembled a small list of the stupidities they have perpetrated against our suppliers.
Some years ago it was apples. Alar was supposedly a deadly poison that the industry had been using for years, No fatalities. Nobody got sick. Apple growers were ruined.
One might recall the Chilean grape scandal. Someone found a grape in a shipment supposedly with poison in it. All Chilean grapes were destroyed. Chile took a big hit on this one.
Lettuce and melons were the next victims. These growers were nearly ruined. Californian
growers were ruined for a time.
Do you remember the tomato recall ? Florida and California growers were ruined. It turns out that it was a mistake and decided it was jalapenos that were to blame, another ruined crop.
Now the bureaucrats have outdone themselves. Eggs, the perfect food, are deemed to be infected. Something like a billion eggs have been recalled. Why, you might ask. 125 people have gotten food poisoning. That works out to be one in 4 million. Your chances of winning the lottery are about as good. It occurred to me that cooked eggs are free of salmonella and perfectly safe to eat. Wouldn't a simple warning be all that is necessary ? But no ! Our nosey intrusive government thinks nothing of destroying whole industries.
For years I have been making smoothies with milk, bananas, egg(raw) and Ovaltine. I intend to continue doing so. It is a delicious drink . I recommend it for breakfast.
4 comments:
Yea verily. I feel safer now that the government is in action. Just imagine, the people that got sick from the eggs -- got sick in April!!! This is August, a mere 4 months later. Maybe we ought to destroy all the food that is in existence since somebody probably got sick at some point from ingesting the food -- then lets see what happens when we have millions starving.
The NC head of agriculture, Steve Troxler, put it well with the tomoato/jalapeno recall. We serve over 1.5 billion meals/day. When 1000 people get sick, this is less than .0001% of the population -- should we be destroying whole industries over this???
Right with you on thius one dad!
Another good blog Dad but I don't think raw eggs are good for anyone anytime - remember Michelle's blog about chickens in the United States?
I agree - mostly.
Playing devils advocate here. Is there a fraction of food contamination that you would find acceptable? 0.0001%, 0.001%, 0.01%, 0.1%... etc.? Where do you say, ok, that is too much? And who wille enforce that?
Tomasito,
No amount of food contamination is acceptable if it is preventable. But my point is that the government is no longer equipped to deal with this issue -- eggs making people sick in April and then being recalled in August is NOT acceptable.
Steve Troxler of NC Agriculture Dept was trying to make a couple of points -- first point was that they made a mistake and destroyed the tomato industry before getting it right with jalapenos, and second point was that their is alot of mishandling of food in homes, which accounts for more than this 0.001% of illnesses.
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