Yes ... Growing ALL of your OWN Food is even better -- but not practical in most of The World today ...

Apr 26, 2012 -- 9:56PM, mountain_man wrote:

Apr 26, 2012 -- 9:39PM, fodaoson wrote:

When was the last time our FOOD SUPPLY caused  major epidemic?   Most of our “ Bad food “ problems occur at the consumer level caused by bad sanitation , sloppy prep and cooking at home and in restaurants . Salmonella, botulism and E coli  can be prevented by careful washing and cooking.

There have been a few E. coli outbreaks in the last few years; a few involving beef tainted in the manufacturing process, and a whole bunch of outbreaks involving VEGETABLES!

The moral is the story is; if you want safe food beef is the best choice.

Apr 26, 2012 -- 10:22PM, Marcion wrote:

I hope all the FDA sycophants enjoy their genetically altered food, arsenic chicken, e-coli spinach and tomatoes, etc etc. etc.

I love that "genetically altered food" BS. Not one person has been able to show there is any kind of harm from eating GMOs - mostly because there is none in our food system. No one has been able to show any potential harm. They just mindlessly repeat the mythinformation fed to them. It's also funny that most of the foods we eat have been genetically modified by selection and manipulation.

The fact the FDA keeps our food safe is almost as stupid as GWB kept us safe - what a laugh.

Yet you have no evidence that our food is unsafe, just a long whine about the FDA.

And I repeat: Asking the simple question as to how much beef Americans eat is neither rude nor off-topic.

It's a fair question.

And it has everything to do with whether or not the average American sitting down to a steak or hamburger is at risk for CJD.

Getting defense about the whole thing is what is off-topic.

Apr 28, 2012 -- 1:28AM, solfeggio wrote:

And it has everything to do with whether or not the average American sitting down to a steak or hamburger is at risk for CJD.

Technocrats would say there is no risk, and even go as far as to blame the victim for their misfortune.  But it's like every other deadly thing in social darwinistic America, whether it be death due to gunshot, death due to unsafe vehicles, death due to unsafe foods -- all of which COULD be handled if we so desired -- if it's you or your loved ones who gets "taken out" then it's a tragedy....if it's someone else or someone else's loved ones then it's so sad/too bad, probably their own fault (generic "you" and "yours").

No ... The Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies are not like "Alzheimers" ...

Apr 28, 2012 -- 7:35PM, solfeggio wrote:

Rabello -

I thank you for that post!  

I really do wonder if the average American has to wonder about the safety of the beef s/he's eating, and if the Food and Drug Administration is playing straight when they say there's nothing to worry about.

Just how many cows really are checked before they are slaughtered?  And by whom?  Is the person doing the checking sufficiently trained to know if a cow is at risk? 

According to one source I found, 100,000 cows are slaughtered every day for food in the U.S.  How could anybody possibly check each and every cow?

And, if the government tests the brains of thousands of slaughtered cows, and they do find mad cow disease on some of those brains, how could they guarantee that the meat from those cows had not long since gone into the food chain and been eaten by people?

Symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob resemble those of other dementia-type diseases like Alzheimer's.  How does anyone know for sure that the disease hasn't already been spread?