You’re Eating That?

[nhboy]

" A few years ago Americans walked into the grocery store and plucked items from the shelves with a confidence that the world could only envy. Now, according to a survey for the Food Marketing Institute, only 66 percent of consumers in the United States are confident that the food they buy is safe, down from 82 percent last year. With news of killer spinach, tainted hamburger patties and imported seafood that can provide as many toxins as omega-3s, who can blame them?

Food safety, like toy safety, is part of a growing national concern that government agencies that are supposed to protect consumers have been whittled down to incompetence. The Bush administration insists it is focusing on import safety — finally. Congress must keep pressing for a complete overhaul of the consumer protection system. Each day there is news of another dangerous hole in the consumer safety net."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/opinion/26mon1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 

[vraiblonde]

Yeah, yeah. And bananas from some South American country are crawling with flesh-eating bacteria.



I get really sick of media hysteria. And even sicker still of the idiots who buy into it and start freaking out.

 

[Pete]

Good job media!

I think the government needs to create the "Department of Safe Vittles" and hire a bazillion technicians and scientists to examine and test every food item from apricots to zuchini. Every frozen hamburger patty, strawberry and squash!

With Americans dropping like flies on street corners we much have ACTION!