Topic: Food Terror
First it was mad cow, then melamine in the pet food, now it's botulism.
Does anyone else think this is an orchestrated little game?
First, I never heard of melamine before earlier this year when the news of the contaminated gluten came out.
Second, I don't remember hearing of any recalls due to botulism, in my lifetime.
Plenty of small recalls for e-coli and salmonella over the years, but botulism is something I related to thirdworld nations, like malaria, not something you hear about in America.
Two weeks or so ago, there was a massive recall on canned chili, now it's been expanded to canned green beans as well. The underlying 'message' (if there is smething deeper going on) is that NOTHING is safe for consumption anymore. Not enough we had to deal with MSG and the likes, and the scary genetically modified foods, which were not required to be labeled as such. Now we gotta wonder if our canned goods are gonna explode in the pantry.
This is just too much, too fast to be mere problems with the industry.
How much of the world's food supply comes from China? Is it likely this has been done intentionally as another covert "weapon", or maybe just to instill more fear?
The one thing that jumps out at me here, is the fact that our current ad-minister-ation has refused to carry out many of the recommended inspections on our own exported food products (mainly beef). And that makes me wonder if the nations we import food from have decided to play tit-for-tat, eye for an eye.
It does seem fair, I must say. But the lack of oversight and inspections as of late has everything to do with this I think.
Farming in the US has declined so much in the last 30-40 years, that I believe we must be importing huge quantites of food. Which leaves us so much more vulnerable to the kinds of things that are happening now. This is just bad news all around it seems.
Not just the lack of inspections, but the long distances some of this food has to travel to make it to our store shelves leaves many more opportunities open for contamination by chemicals or disease. Not like when people bought their produce at roadside farmstands, mere minutes from stand to table.
And we absolutely have the multinats like Monsanto and ADM to blame. (among other things)
By the way, Monsanto has banned GMO foods in their own cafeterias. Nice huh?
It feels like another covert war to me.
J
