Woman’s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws – NYTimes.com

Is this the type of environment that we want to be living in?  One where we are unable to know the process in which a company produces ground beef such that we can be made extremely ill from it’s consumption?  A Jew might disregard this article thinking that this sort of thing doesn’t affect Kosher meat, but it surely does.  It’s time for the American people to rally and demand that major changes be made to our argiculture industry so that we not only have access to safe, healthy meat, but that we have the transparency to know how our food get’s from the seed to the table and who is involved along the way.

Bon Appetite.

“The meat industry treats much of its practices and the ingredients in ground beef as trade secrets. While the Department of Agriculture has inspectors posted in plants and has access to production records, it also guards those secrets. Federal records released by the department through the Freedom of Information Act blacked out details of Cargill’s grinding operation that could be learned only through copies of the documents obtained from other sources. Those documents illustrate the restrained approach to enforcement by a department whose missions include ensuring meat safety and promoting agriculture markets.”

Woman’s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws – NYTimes.com

~ by swimfast on October 3, 2009.