Posted on 10/28/2024 6:48:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Warmer temperatures are impacting the food supply and its safety, experts warned amid an outbreak of E. coli that has struck McDonald's Quarter Pounders.
Experts said pathogens—the bacteria that can make us sick—are changing with the weather.
"It's an adjustment due to climate change," said Pratik Banerjee, who teaches food safety at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "and some of these adjustments are not good."
Banerjee is currently studying the impact of climate on the food supply.
According to those with whom CBS News Chicago connected for this story, the McDonald's outbreak is a reminder that climate change is real.
"People who don't believe in global warming are going to believe in global warming eventually," said attorney Bill Marler of Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, "because there's a lot of studies that are coming out now that are showing that certain pathogens like E. coli, salmonella, campylobacter are adapting better to a heated environment than we are."
Marler has represented victims of outbreaks across the country for decades as a foodborne illness lawyer. He said some pathogens that contaminate food are even showing up in the U.S. for the first time thanks to climate change.
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One reason the mass media has credibility ratings lower than dirt is the insane “climate change” propaganda.
The average chimp could give more fact based reporting.
Fire them all—replace them with AI.
If a machine wants to lie to me fine.
VD from tainted condoms will explode! And so forth. Is there *anything* that climatism can’t achieve?
I’ve eaten worse-looking onions than that out of my garden.
(The key is to cut out and discard the bad parts. :-) )
This has nothing to do with the weather. Liars.
“The problem most likely is Juan Valdez isn’t washing his hands after his bathroom break during harvesting.”
Or he dropped a deuce right on the crop.
Mmmmmmm, McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, E. coli style!
You may be closer to the truth.
“the McDonald’s outbreak is a reminder that climate change is real”
That’s a stretch, even for total bullschtein.
Probably due to unsanitary conditions in McDonald’s. I hate the places, never ever eat fast “food”.
What baloney. I hate to say it, but it is more likely from the many illegal aliens working in the food service industry and the overall lack of sanitary precautions at places like resturants.
No, Bill Marler, we’re not buying the “climate change” BS.
The climate has been changing since the Earth began, and humanity has thrived during warm periods, such as the Medieval Warming period in the 1400’s onward, when a little something known as the Renaissance occurred.
Getting colder here been using the fireplace but then again the climate is changing. It’s called Fall right now.
Filthy unskilled illegals, not knowing English are the bigger problem, Owners hiring them is the other. TENT GOV JOB PROGRAM. Boar’s head was the one who finally mentioned they hired TENT WORKERS.
Na , it’s all the filthy illegals working in food plants for cash
It’s not “climate change” that’s doing it. It’s uncontrolled “immigration” of the uncivilized taking over civilized countries.
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