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    Default Any Safe Food?????

    First there was the spinach scare, then people dying after eating at Taco Bell and NOW theres pieces of glass in the Trail Mix at Walmart!?!?!?!? I heard it on the news today. Pretty soon we're all going to have to examine our food under a microscope before eating. Is there any safe food anymore?
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    Default Re: Any Safe Food?????

    not really! We're victims of our own technology.

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    Default Re: Any Safe Food?????

    What's stupider yet is that our government often does its darndest to impede things that would make our food supply safer, often in the name of protecting large corporate entities that don't want to take on the extra expense of assuring it.

    After a Mad Cow Disease scare a few years back sent the U.S. beef industry into a tailspin and a number of foreign countries banned U.S. beef, a small local slaughterhouse in my state came up with a solution. Test every cow for BSE instead of doing a random 1% sample as required by the USDA. Unfortunately, under law the USDA reserves the right to control the number of BSE testing kits a meatpacker can buy, and refused to sell them enough to test every cow.

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    Default Re: Any Safe Food?????

    Mad Cow Disease wouldn't even exist if not for modern facatory farming, which, imo, is the real reason food is unsafe. The problems we face today did not exist to this degree before it.

    It's not about the USDA (although they are not blameless.)

    It's about people wanting the cheapest food possible, with that being more important than quality.

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