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Amid the massive egg recall currently underway over potential salmonella poisoning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been working hard to push its pasteurization agenda. The agency recently made an announcement recommending that all grocery stores and restaurants begin stocking pasteurized eggs instead of raw ones.
FDA uses massive egg recall to push for egg pasteurization
Seeded on Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:19 PM EDT
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'The industrial food system is both unsustainable and unhealthy. Whether with animals or produce, the methods typically used to raise food commercially are toxic and unsanitary, and are actually responsible for causing food contamination. Animals and produce that are raised organically and naturally, the way nature intended, do not become contaminated with salmonella.'
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#1 - Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:20 PM EDTI'm with you on this, but perhaps there should be a choice for consumers between organic and pasteurized eggs.
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um organically grown food, grown too close to animals, or fertilized with manure, can often be contaminated with e-coli.
there is no subsitute for proper food WASHING and COOKING the BIGGEST benefit of organically grown food, is the lessened risk it is contaminated with insectisides and chemical fertilizers, the second benefit is it has higher levels of nutrients.
free range chickens have higher levels of bacterias, and ingested foreign matter. so it very much depends on how clean the range area is kept, which can be just as bad as a chicken factory. it all depends on your knowledge of the source, you can't broadly accept all "organic food"
JMO..... I'll choose cooking my eggs
my great grandma was a 1-room schoolhouse teacher, and lived on a farm, my grandma had to churn butter as a kid, so I've heard the gamet on sanitation and cleanliness, I always seemed to have enough dirt in my ears to grow potatoes, (according to grandma ). I miss her and granny
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I am a bit of an air-head when it comes to this type of news, BUT, how does eggs in a hard shell become contaminated?
Is it the hard shell that is contaminated?!
I love organic products for me and my children, but over here in New Jersey it is so expensive! I buy organic when on sale.
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#2 - Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:33 PM EDTFecal matter infects the chickens ovaries and surface of the egg...due to unsanitary factory farming and purposeful poisoning of Americans for political and Big Ag purposes.
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A ‘habitual offender’ unleashes nearly half a billion salmonella-tainted eggs:
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration last month fined Mr. DeCoster $3.6 million for violations in the workplace and at workers' housing. Federal investigators said they found workers, many of whom are immigrants from Latin America, handling manure and dead chickens with their bare hands, and living amid rats and cockroaches in the company's trailer park.
Robert B. Reich, the then-Labor Secretary, denounced DeCoster Egg Farms as "an agricultural sweatshop,'' where "the workers are treated like animals," the Times reported.
http://www.grist.org/article/food-a-habitual-offender-unleashes-nearly-half-a-billion-salmonella-t/
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the worst thing about your above reference to greedy big business practices, forgoing sanitation for the sake of greed..........
everyone is in an uproar about the eggs, and no one seems to give a flying F*** about the workers living in the same conditions as the chickens laying contaminated eggs... dare I say TB? HEP C? not to mention body lice, ect. ect..
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Perhaps the FDA should try instead to look at what works and use current law to shut down the poorest most offending companies. I recently saw a good show on Discovery channel I think about egg production at these "factory farms". The one they showed though ran through six different sterilization and sorting processes before being packaged and they were using nothing but steam and infra red lights to kill bacteria before chilling and packing the eggs.
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