New food saftey bill advances in congress http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sc-dc-food-safety-20101117,0,7628729.story
because of the most recent egg-recall...yess the eggs have been recalled AGAIN http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-egg-recall-salmonella-20101109,0,5009507.story
Salmonilla is the cause once again. Salmonilla is found in the chicken's dietary tract, it comes from poop, and can be harmful if eggs are undercooked. http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/divisions/dfbmd/diseases/salmonella_enteritidis/#eggs
In the Omnivore's Dillemma, Micheal Pollan states that salmonilla out breaks are mostly caused by overcrowding and unclean hen houses. While reading some Micheal Pollan articles I came across this one and was particularly grossed out http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/the-way-we-live-now-cattle-futures/ We feed our cows chicken litter? ekkkk.
This is another article where Micheal Pollan discusses how local food is better for us and the e. coli outbreak in 2006. He states that is wasn't afraid to eat the spinach sitting at his farmer's market while the whole country was panicking over the pre-washed bagged spinach in the store.
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