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Friday, April 13, 2007

Interesting quote

From a story in USA Today.

"The desire for a raw natural diet is leading to a new pattern of foodborne illness," said Douglas Powell, a professor of food safety at Kansas State University in Manhattan."
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3 comments:

  1. Rebecca Mecomber8:50 AM

    Wow, that statement is a loaded one, filled with assumptions and smells of political agenda. For one, according to this guy, you have to assume that consumers are limited to obtaining their food from food-factories; two that it is nigh impossible for food-factories to prevent the spread of food-borne illnesses in their factories.

    We are asking for major problems when we rely so heavily on food-factories for our food supply. It's not raw food that is the cause for food-borne illnesses. It is the socialistic food-factory process with filthy conditions and workers who have no knowledge or desire on how to keep food clean.

    Maybe this professor would have been more accurate if he had said, "The desire for FACTORY-GROWN FOOD AND LONG-DISTANCE SHIPPING OF FOOD is leading to a new pattern of foodborne illness."

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  2. Anonymous3:36 PM

    ...so, I shouldn't be eating road-kill right off the highway?

    (Oh, and I tagged ya... sorry...)

    http://tinyurl.com/yw5yve

    I apologise in advance...

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  3. threecollie4:06 PM

    Hi mrs. M. I thought it was interesting in context as it had little to do with what the article referred to. I also think that the burgeoning popularity of of "natural" foods had made it very profitable to sell them. Thus big companies produce them, ship them, and command the same premiums and respect as if they were grown right down the road.

    Matthew, if you are going to eat road kill, at least get a good road kill cook book.

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