Salmonella
2. DON'T EAT PEANUT BUTTER. That crap has salmonella in it, and the last way to survive a recession is to voluntarily risk massive hospital bills with a life threatening strain of bacteria.
Our chronically overworked and underfunded FDA hasn't got the means -- or the inclination -- to protect consumers from the monstrous machinations of that tri-headed hydra, Big Ag/Big Food/Big Pharma.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Lax agency enforcement of humane slaughter rules continues to allow unacceptable abuse of animals and food safety risks.
In the No on Prop 2 commercial, we meet Dr. Kara Hutton and she's arguing the worst falsehood of all -- that human health depends on treating animals cruelly.
The US food system is by most accounts one of the safest in the world, but there's evidence that food-borne disease outbreaks are becoming nastier, more frequent, and more widespread.
Is it really hard to believe that most American produce retailers don't routinely label country of origin on all their fruits and vegetables? Does Collins not shop for her own food?
Tomatoes are seeing red at being wrongly blamed as the contamination cause of a national Salmonella outbreak. Now jalapeno peppers have replaced tomatoes as the possible culprit.