This is more "We're the Gov't we can protect you" mentality bull****.
This is more "We're the Gov't we can protect you" mentality bull****.
This is more "We're the Gov't we can protect you" mentality bull****.
I'd pay a penny for a vastly reduced chance of salmonella. But I guess I'm just a smug, out of touch liberal.
You prefer - "we're not going to bother testing our product, just pay us for our ****ty eggs and enjoy your medical bills"?
I agree to a large extent. They just announced that they would be doing a lot more inspections on factory egg farms. Which I don't really mind too much. But, since the salmonella was allegedly in the feed that was used, what's the point other then political gain? It would make much more sense to inspect the feed producers.
This is why I already spend the extra for local farm-raised, cage-free, natural nest eggs.
Yeah. I could spend $1 per carton and risk salmonella. Or I could spend an extra $1.50 a week to completely be (mostly) worry-free from such concerns.
It's not different then when a shooting happens and someone proposes a new gun control law. As if that would have stopped the shooting.
I completely agree with you. Not only that, but the farming industry has become just that, an industry. There are hardly any independent farming families anymore, and most farmers are forced to buy equipment from their company that keeps them in debt and forced to work for them. Our livestock is raised in unsanitary conditions, our farmers are abused, and the farming companies ultimately make big dollars at the expense of our health, food quality, and the lives of farmers. If you haven't seen it yet, watch Food Inc. It was a real eye opener for me and I think you would enjoy the documentary.This is what I love about this issue - I have friends in this town (and we're in the same town) with whom I disagree politically, but we agree on this. It's time to take our food back.
Typically they are fed better, and they are free roaming, not standing around. No one promises that the cage free chickens are salmonella free, but they are far less likely to have it. Studies have shown that free roaming chickens produce healthier eggs. Caged chickens are raised with almost no space for them. Many die, and their dead bodies are left rotting on the ground until a farmer can pick it out and remove it.I would be willing to bet that even some farm raised cage free chickens were exposed to the same feed that was found to be the culprit of the salmonella. You're just fooling yourself to to think hat salmonella can't occur.
See. To those of you who use political points in EVERY topic - here's 2 people in the same town saying that we agree on one thing.
Typically they are fed better, and they are free roaming, not standing around. No one promises that the cage free chickens are salmonella free, but they are far less likely to have it. Studies have shown that free roaming chickens produce healthier eggs. Caged chickens are raised with almost no space for them. Many die, and their dead bodies are left rotting on the ground until a farmer can pick it out and remove it.
I completely agree with you. Not only that, but the farming industry has become just that, an industry. There are hardly any independent farming families anymore, and most farmers are forced to buy equipment from their company that keeps them in debt and forced to work for them. Our livestock is raised in unsanitary conditions, our farmers are abused, and the farming companies ultimately make big dollars at the expense of our health, food quality, and the lives of farmers. If you haven't seen it yet, watch Food Inc. It was a real eye opener for me and I think you would enjoy the documentary.
Typically they are fed better, and they are free roaming, not standing around. No one promises that the cage free chickens are salmonella free, but they are far less likely to have it. Studies have shown that free roaming chickens produce healthier eggs. Caged chickens are raised with almost no space for them. Many die, and their dead bodies are left rotting on the ground until a farmer can pick it out and remove it.
Dude. Gov't can't save you from every danger in life. So there was an outbreak, the food got recalled, end of story. The waste of resources, the cost and the possibility of success for this "vaccination" program... is it really worth it? Will it really protect folks?
By the same token, maybe we shouldn't have all those awful safety standards like seat belts and cars that don't detonate on impac, because you can just learn how to drive properly!
**** happens. It's not about the government "saving us from every danger in life." That's just more partisan bull****. It's about risk management. If it's cheap and easy to reduce a particular risk, why not do it? Some of us aren't terrified of every regulation ever passed.
2 halfwits don't make a whole wit.....:2razz:
Practicallly everythling we eat starts out dirty...gets harvested dirty, gets processed dirty, and so on. No matter how much food processors try to keep it clean, there is still a risk of contamination. But there is a way to safely consume our food, it is called COOKING it.....
There has always been one very important ingredient that we must add when preparing our food, and that is common sense.
No - there *are* safety standards in place.
They were not upheld and were not met.
Hundreds got sick
Food was recalled.
Do you know the history of food-standards? They're THERE for a reason - yes, there will always be risks and possible problems but that's why pat of 'the system' INCLUDES testing the product to try to nail down a problem before it becomes *widespread*
BUT instead of protecting people - they are trying to fudge over on THEIR mistake and sell the product anyway so they don't lose money.
If they didn't want to lose money they shouldn't have ****ED UP to begin with.
A small batch with salmonella getting through - and discovered EARLY and halted QUICKLY is smart and evidence of the system working. But millions and millions of eggs = thousands and thousands of infected chickens = no one did their jobs right.
I refuse to be FORCED to take risks with it - at the store, look at the package, is this a "previously contaminated but we think we've vaccinated *the egg* and so it's safe for your consumption, now" egg or is this an egg that's been squared away and deemed SAFE because it's hen wasn't infected?
This whole thing is stupid and shouldn't BE this widespread and out of control.
I don't give a **** if my next carton of eggs costs me $5.00 - I don't want them to recycle BAD EGGS and try to slip them to me.
By the same token, maybe we shouldn't have all those awful safety standards like seat belts and cars that don't detonate on impac, because you can just learn how to drive properly!
**** happens. It's not about the government "saving us from every danger in life." That's just more partisan bull****. It's about risk management. If it's cheap and easy to reduce a particular risk, why not do it? Some of us aren't terrified of every regulation ever passed.
Typically they are fed better, and they are free roaming, not standing around. No one promises that the cage free chickens are salmonella free, but they are far less likely to have it. Studies have shown that free roaming chickens produce healthier eggs. Caged chickens are raised with almost no space for them. Many die, and their dead bodies are left rotting on the ground until a farmer can pick it out and remove it.
this is why i already spend the extra for local farm-raised, cage-free, natural nest eggs.
Yeah. I could spend $1 per carton and risk salmonella. Or i could spend an extra $1.50 a week to completely be (mostly) worry-free from such concerns.