There’s More Hair, Feces, and Toenails in Your Pork Than You Realize(munchies.vice.com)
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There’s More Hair, Feces, and Toenails in Your Pork Than You Realize
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Is it just me, or does the paleo diet seem like it should include all of the above in order to be accurate?
While it might be true, there's a potential for bias in that it's based on reports by inspectors, most of whom would expect to lose their jobs if this program is expanded.
I doubt that their potential for bias outweighs the food producers' incentive to hire people who are content to just approve everything that whizzes past them on the line, without any sort of whistleblowing protections against employer retaliation. The inspection program should of course be subject to double-blind testing to determine its effectiveness compared to a control...but that sort of testing takes money, which has to be approved by Congress. I would imagine that the meat producers are a stronger lobby on Capital Hill than food safety advocates.
There are FDA-employeed folks at meat producers doing inspections. It's not entirely left up to the companies.
The affidavits[1] referred to in TFA describe just how useless this relationship has become. The inspectors receive little support from the USDA and are now tasked with, essentially, the management of poorly-trained company "inspectors" who are themselves under pressure from company management, on pain of termination, to keep the line moving (at a higher than ever rate). The authority of the USDA inspectors, under this "let them eat salmonella" program, seems to be in terminal decline.
[1] http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/campaign/hormel-hogs/#affid...
[1] http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/campaign/hormel-hogs/#affid...
It's utterly evil; that is why major religions like Christianlity, Islam etc. prohibited its consumption. I really dislike even tasting it!
Thanks, _______ Administration!
soylent green is people
Fortunately, if you follow proper food-handling practices, none of this is unsafe. But if you think you don't eat a few hundred parts-per-million each day of hidden disgusting things, you're deceiving yourself.