Posted on 04/30/2014 6:50:22 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Maggots found in Whole Foods meat case, health officials say they’re not moving fast enough to fix the problem
Whole Foods claims to be “America’s Healthiest Grocery Store,” and that they, “maintain the strictest quality standards in the industry.” Such claims might start to be questioned, however, after a disgusting discovery at one of their San Francisco locations on Monday, April 21. Last week, KRON 4 News exclusively reported that maggots were found in a meat case. Now, KRON 4 News is reporting that the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) claims Whole Foods hasn’t worked quickly enough to fix the problem. Beyond that, the grocery store can’t seem to keep its story straight as to what actually transpired.
When the story was reported last week, KRON was told by the SFDPH that Whole Foods told them that all they found was one dead maggot. That conflicted with what KRON had heard from Whole Foods employee, Marc Melancon. Mr. Melancon, who is a meat clerk, told the station last week, “I can actually see maggots underneath the plastic right near the meat that I was selling, inside the case…it was pretty bad.” After KRON started to look into the matter, Whole Foods changed its story.
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Don’t San Francisco and Maggots go together anyway
Maggots are organic protein.
As a ‘Senior’ I prefer the slower maggots. The fast-moving ones, frankly, worry me.
Or an employee that's tired of working and wants to go back on unemployment.
I've raised maggots (for aquarium fish food). They are unlikely to crawl up from the floor drain to the meat case. A dead rodent lodged up in the case somewhere is a more likely scenario. Also they should look up. We once had a mouse expire above a ceiling tile, the kind with multiple perforations and the smell was going up and the maggots were dropping down onto my mother's bed.
Nice story about the crayfish. Do you have a link by any chance?
What did Mr. Melancon do? Did he clean up the area or did he say "that's not MY job"?
Reminds me of some of the Bear Grylls episodes where he eats larvae, maggots, and other stuff to survive.
Health department says WF isn't working fast enough to resolve the matter. How many days does it take once it is discovered? How many people in the ranks must be consulted with before doing the cleanup (even if they wait until after the customers have cleared the store at 10:15pm)?
This is a ‘happening’ in San Fransicko - might one inquire as to which side of the display counter glass the maggots were located?
How many people in the ranks must be consulted with before doing the cleanup (even if they wait until after the customers have cleared the store at 10:15pm)?
Oooh! Nice touch! “The Potempkin!”
Saw it on Public Television when I lived in Chicago! Classic silent era Communist propaganda!
I’ll bet maggots to moleholes that this story won’t be in any lefty newspapers (I.e., most newspapers) on Thursday.
Play them some Slipknot.
Obviously, the fly eggs for those maggots were on some meat and were previously undetected. Either that, or one of the more gentrified flies landed in the meat case and laid the eggs. But that’s okay—”protein” and all of that. Upscale liberals in their childhoods of the previous generation ate maggots, and nothing bad happened to them. Malthusianism for the other half.
San Fransisco. I'm betting an activist homosexual passing as a butcher. My impression of Whole Foods butchers here in Boston is that they are reliable and the most sane part of the staff.
Me too!
They need to get the maggots involved in Michelle’s “Let’s Move” program.
[ No, probably not. Under the meat/seafood/deli display you see are stainless steel lids protecting the refrigeration equipment underneath.
That’s the unseen JUNGLE that only gets looked at once or twice a year for maintenance and cleaning.
A very large grocery chain in Texas last year had a baby crawfish slip thru the cracks and lived a very long time eating food snippets that also fell thru the cracks, was a very large, fine specimen when the tech opened up the case to repair some refrig lines. ]
Crawdad Surprise!!!!
That is AWESOME, crayfish are cool!
***This is a ‘happening’ in San Fransicko***
Well of course it was San Fransicko! They have BLOW FLIES there which deposit their eggs on dead meat!
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