The War on Food....

[redcliffsw]

The War on Food:  Eggsactly What Is Going On Here?
by Mac Slavo
Reading this week's headlines about the egg salmonella crisis may leave one with the impression that we need more government control and we need it now. The feeling one is left with after listening to mainstream pundits and FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg is eerily familiar – almost as if the same crisis template that was applied to the financial crisis is now being used to further progress centralized control of the country's food production capacity:

    We don't know exactly how the contamination got into the chicken population, into the egg population, and we're not yet fully sure of the extent of the recall that will be necessary to protect consumers.

    ...

    We are very anxious to see a piece of important legislation currently being considered by Congress be passed. There is an opportunity through this legislation to extend our authority, resources and other important tools to do trace back of products, to make sure the companies have the appropriate preventative measures in place and to enable us to review records in a routine way.

    ...

    In response to news anchor's question: Someone's in the kitchen this morning and they're about to prepare breakfast, what do you say to them?

    It's very important to prepare your food properly. Then when you're preparing food, wash your hands first, then wash your hands after handling eggs. And, cook the eggs thoroughly. That means that the egg yolks and the egg whites should be thoroughly cooked. No more mopping up egg yolks with toast.

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[Roma Jean Turner]

I think they are working on a nano chip that could be stamped onto the egg shell.   Each egg could then be trzced and monitored.  If you touch it and your hands aren't clean the egg will explode and it will be reported to a central monitoring service.  So don't get caught with egg on your face....... I really need to go back to sleep.

[Diane Amberg]

Oh, boo! Didn't I just read that they are going to pasteurize those  same eggs and resell them? How fresh are those going to be? 

[srkruzich]

Oh, boo! Didn't I just read that they are going to pasteurize those  same eggs and resell them? How fresh are those going to be? 

Uhmm think about it diane, they are recalling all the way back to march/april.  Store eggs are not fresh.  They sit in a warehouse for months before being sent out.   
I can take a 1 month old yard egg here, crack it and the white still stand up in the pan.  You take a store egg and have to chase it all around the pan the whites are so runny.

I'm surprised folks aren't sick from just eating old eggs.

[srkruzich]

OH  BTW i just got through mopping up my yolk with the toast. MMMMMmm   

[Diane Amberg]

Don't forget where I live. Chickens and eggs are our big product here. Our eggs don't have to be warehoused. They go out about as fast as they are laid. Cluck,cluck.

[redcliffsw]

I've never had a delicious "Government Approved" tomato.