Posted on 11/14/2019 4:47:54 PM PST by Jyotishi
Complete title: US meat supply is riddled with feces, doctors claim in a lawsuit against the government in a bid to wipe fecal matter from our food
The government maintains a 'zero tolerance' policy on feces in food
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says that only applies to 'visible' fecal matter
They filed a lawsuit against the USDA on Tuesday calling for tighter regulations
The US meat supply is riddled with fecal matter, a new lawsuit against the government claims.
While the government maintains a 'zero tolerance' policy on feces in food, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says that only applies to 'visible' fecal matter.
They say the rise in E. coli outbreaks linked to meat is evidence that invisible traces of fecal matter are slipping through the net and into Americans' kitchens and stomachs.
The North American Meat Institute, which represents meat packers and processors, insists E. coli is not exclusively linked to feces. ('A swab of phones and keyboards would likely find E. coli, but that doesn't mean there is 'poop' on your phone,' they wrote).
But the Physicians Committee does not agree, filing a lawsuit last Tuesday -- the latest in its eight-year battle to wipe feces from the meat supply.
While the government maintains a 'zero tolerance' policy on feces in food, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says that only applies to 'visible' fecal matter
The Committee's vendetta began in 2011, when they conducted a study on 120 chicken products sold at 15 chains in 10 US cities. They found 48 percent of chicken had fecal matter that hadn't been weeded out.
In last week's lawsuit, they say that proportion has risen.
They do not provide new study data to back it up, but they say a change in how chicken is processed...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Don’t federal inspectors have to be present in meat processing facilities? I had a relative...a tiny older woman, who was a federal meat inspector. She had to travel a lot to be present when a facility was killing livestock. I heard later that she was very demanding and would order processing shut down if there was any question of standards not being met.
Well Said. I worked four years in a meat packing plant as a journeyman meat cutter. Those who wrote that article don’t know dedication from shinola.
E Coli is everywhere. And it is not all from fecal matter. In fact Schiff contains most of that matter leaving little for meat.
sounds like another fake lobbying group with a very clear political agenda, pretending to be holier-than-thou
That is why you should COOK YOUR FOOD! Heat destroys bacteria, and always has.
Many years ago I learned that federal meat inspectors learned that you cannot remove all bacteria from meat so they release it anyway with warnings to COOK YOUR FOOD! Frozen pizzas were especially noted for bacteria.
Remember the Meat Slime scare a few years back? Simply meat that had been pureed and added to food.
But it SOUNDS BAD!
......when you pry my cold dead fingers from my SOS.
How many of them are Indians (dot not feather) and attempting to impose their immorality on us by stealth?
Pet food. (”Chicken by-products”)
Likely a move to try to keep folks from eating what God intended us to eat....
Rendering generally.
‘A swab of phones and keyboards would likely find E. coli, but that doesn’t mean there is ‘poop’ on your phone,’ they wrote.
It would if a muslim(SPIT!) was there before you.
If anyone has ever eaten anything in a third world country, they have eaten worse...
I inspected many processing plants and most of them were meticulous about cleaning. Forty years ago the employees were required to have a negative TB test and were required to take a food handling safety class. Many of my colleagues are dedicated USDA food plant inspectors and are competent and demanding. Physicians need to stay within their education. Veterinarians are schooled in public health, sanitation, and food inspection because the majority of infectious diseases come from animals.
Yet another attempt to ban meat.
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