Good morning!!! Wow, I am super tired! My other job kept me quite busy yesterday with meetings. On top of that I had to squeeze in my errands and a doctor’s appoint. Got home last night had dinner and then didn’t get into bed until midnight. Sigh, I am super tired today but got another business meeting later today.
Today’s Topic: What do you all think of this 1.8 million pounds of beef that has been recalled due to the e. coli bacteria? I am furious about it as I am tired of all of these food recalls going on all of the time. We need food & health inspectors to be more on top of this and to recall things quicker. We need stiffer punishments for companies who put bad foods into our food system. We need more checks and balances as these recalls are happening more & more. In my opinion, I think the situation has gotten a lot worse over the years.
You can read more about the current beef recall (here) and it is enough to anger anyone!!!
The scary thing about this particular recall is that all of the beef had been shipped to restaurants, where people still order hamburgers too rare to be safely cooked (165 degrees F). Another scary thing is that by the time the recall was issued, the beef would have been past its expiration date, meaning it had already been used (unless it had been frozen for future use).
Congratulations to the winner.
I agree with you about this situation worsening over the last few years. There are many more recalls and problems in our food supply. There should be more or better inspections and stiffer fines. No one in my family or yours needs to fall sick or die.
Congrats to the winner! You are right 100%!! This is scary and ridiculous! Thankfully, we have not been eating red meat for quite some time, but this is enough to make me wish I had a huge “victory” garden, my own chickens, all of my own food and drink coming from my own 2 hands. But I shouldn’t have to feel that way. Not in the best country in the world!
Congrats to the winner. I agree with you these food recalls are so scary and this huge beef one is such an awful waste. I dodge so many things in the super market because of past recalls I am still afraid to eat them like spinach, bag lettuce, oh and now peanut butter scares me because of all those people who died from eating it just a couple of years ago. There needs to be A LOT more checks and cross checking and the punishments need to be HUGE.
I don’t eat meat but it’s the same with all food. The lack of inspectors along with corruption that I’m sure goes on, like everything else in our wonderful government (don’t get me started on the VA cover up since I’m a nurse). It’s everyone for himself. Seriously, you just have to be super careful about the food you feed your family. It does take more time and a willingness to get educated but brings a bit more peace of mind that you’re doing all you can in a bad situation.
Three words: Don’t Eat Meat! Industrialized meat is ecologically destructive, dangerous (recalls!) cruel and not necessary: one can get all the protein you need from “undead” food products.
This is plain disgusting. There is nothing anyone can say to convince me that people in the industry don’t know what’s going on. The Almighty Dollar is God to them (including the USDA inspectors), and they only cop to it if there’s no way they can see their way out of it. So what if people get sick, or even die? They don’t care. For this reason, just to put another buffer between me and E. Coli, Salmonella, etc., I will only buy Kosher meat. (Unless it’s pork, in which case that doesn’t apply). Whew!