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Now on to today’s newsletter:
As the news has broke about a massive 380 million egg recall, two things have run though my mind…
First is this – of course this would happen.
It happens with beef, pork, chicken and just about everything else animal that is raised in a factory farm.
How can we continue to be so foolish?
We all know what happens when you put animals in close quarters.
They get sick and infected.
I used to manage construction for a home rehab company.
We would deal with pre-foreclosures and other blighted homes.
Every once in while, we would go into a home where the owners had dozens of animals.
It just came with the territory.
When this was the case, we found that almost always the place smelled awful, there was feces everywhere and everyone – animals included – were sick.
What makes anyone think this is any different than chickens laying eggs in a dark warehouse somewhere in Iowa?
I wonder if the farmers ever think this isn’t the way it’s supposed to be.
Their heads may be too far up their coop to realize it.
(I shouldn’t even say “farmers” here, because they don’t deserve that distinction.)
The second thing is this.
Who’s going to be shut down, arrested and punished?
If this was a natural health supplement company, they’d already be closed, owners arrested and being questioned with little attention to their rights.
“How dare they threaten the health of the American public?”
It would be used in the media as an example of why natural supplements don’t work.
(Now, of course, if a supplement company doesn’t regulate their product and this happens they should be shut down.)
All this would happen even if one person became ill.
Not thousands.
But what about this case of 380 million eggs?
I wonder if anyone in the mainstream media will effectively point the finger at factory farming as the single cause of a recall like this.
Hardly likely.
The media will talk about the need to cook eggs thoroughly, what foods may contain raw eggs to watch out for, they might even talk about a rule or two the farm was lax on when it comes to safety and hygiene…
This is what has happened in the past, so why would it be any different now?
Right now the FDA is investigating rodent control at the farm in Iowa where the tainted eggs were from.
This is like searching for fingerprints at the murder scene when the killer is still in the room with a bloody knife.
It’s the whole operation that stinks, not the rodents.
They’ll even encourage us to eat more eggs and resurrect papers about how healthy they are just so the egg industry doesn’t suffer a huge loss.
It’s deflection of the truth at the largest scale.
What the egg lobby and industry insiders will never do is allow anyone to conclude that this all happened because of the way the animals are raised.
It’s not possible – for their own survival.
The politics and money are too great.
So as this unfolds, I hope I’m wrong and something actually does happen. Maybe the company is shut down for good, the owners are put in jail for endangering the American public with their farm practices. Maybe it will change the way farming is done in the U.S. and around the world.
It would be a long time coming.
Didn’t Upton Sinclair write “The Jungle” in 1906?
What do you think? (Post it in the comments below!)
Live Awesome!
Kev
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9:17 pm on August 25th, 2010
I completely agree Kevin. Thank you for having a say on the subject.
10:49 pm on August 29th, 2010
dude i can not stand the fda. u are right about the supplement industry dead on. anyways this is completely asinine and 100% avoidable. so here is what jumped into my brain when i saw the news.
why are we californians buying eggs from iowa?????? this is complete communism. giving us little options of buying things…. having one or two companies dominate when most people are oblivious. i may sound disorganized in thought but when someone goes shopping at albertsons or vons or ralphs for eggs they get the cheapest ones without regards to where they come from or anything. the biggest grocers slang the biggest companies shit period. that is a red flag.
i could ramble for days. i just honestly believe in my heart and brain and energy that i myself could replace the fda chairmen and im 20 years old. why is the average health person more knowledgeable that a whole panel of supposed “experts”
fun fact: if you were to give all cows in america a diet of grass starting tomorrow 80% of the salmonella in the country is abolished by october.
did u know that on some packages of cheese that are rbgh free there is a statement claiming that “there is no significant difference between cows treated and not treated rbgh”……… and the fda person who slapped that little sentence on the hormone free dairy product is The FDA official responsible for the agency’s labeling policy, Michael R. Taylor, a former partner of King & Spaulding, the Washington, D.C. law firm that has brought the lawsuits on behalf of Monsanto!!!!!!!! and who started the rbgh usage????? MONSANTO
end of story fuck you fda and fuck you monsanto. pardon my russian