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Food Supply Madness. Damn.

Our pets, should we have them, are definitely not safe.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/1/0317/13096

That's a lot of pets. Chicken farms have also been found to be contaminated with melamine tainted feed. With some of the processed chickens released into our food supply.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/1/102825/9695

The FDA is investigating and USA Today has a story saying "The Food and Drug Administration is enforcing a new import alert that greatly expands its curtailment of some food ingredients imported from China, authorizing border inspectors to detain ingredients used in everything from noodles to breakfast bars."

Great. Noodles and Breakfast bars. We ain't safe neither.
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Yesssss!!! A rationalization for my all cow diet...
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Nope. One word. Prions.
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My brain is spongy to begin with, who'll notice?...

OK, fine, I'll go back to spooning out the gunk from under the fridge.
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Yikes! What does this all mean?
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kaci_beeler wrote:Yikes! What does this all mean?
This means that you, yes, you personally Kaci, are going to die horribly from a foodborne pathogen or poison. So go and enjoy a sunset or something...
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mpbrockman wrote:
kaci_beeler wrote:Yikes! What does this all mean?
This means that you, yes, you personally Kaci, are going to die horribly from a foodborne pathogen or poison. So go and enjoy a sunset or something...
meh...meh...ROY! waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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kaci_beeler wrote:
mpbrockman wrote:
kaci_beeler wrote:Yikes! What does this all mean?
This means that you, yes, you personally Kaci, are going to die horribly from a foodborne pathogen or poison. So go and enjoy a sunset or something...
meh...meh...ROY! waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Shhhhh... I'm sorry...shhhhh...here, have a tasty breakfast bar...
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My advice is to keep a continuous low level of alcohol in your system. Between that and spicy foods, most of the more nasty pathogens will be too worn out to do much harm.
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Prions....prions, she mumbled hysterically.....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/1/152025/6450
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There was a US mad-cow scare last summer that was quickly swept under the rug. BOO!!!!!! I feel very small right now.
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I realize that I'm only stirring up things I can't prove or do anything about. The liberal blogosphere is aflame with tales of madcow leading to the vast increase in alzheimers, not to mention all the baby formula out there and the increase in autism blippty blah.
But basically I'm pissed that all this shit is winding up in our food and our government doesn't seem to worry about doing all that much about it.

Don't want to cut into profit margins, after all.


Meanwhile I have a 79 year old mother with Alzheimers and a little boy with something a bit off with his brain.

Something? Nothing? Probably coincidence. But still

Fuck all.
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I have used the constant low level alcohol approach - hence the aforementioned spongy brain, and the mumbling...
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Not to mention that the world's population is GROWING at 1.167% a day (2007 est). Where will we find food when the land is all used up?
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Post by mpbrockman »

Sara - if that report scares you, check this out.



http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/joyce
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