What Money Can Buy

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On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 07:07 AM,

wrote:

 

> I felt so bad reading about those people that died from

> eating items they ordered in a restaurant chain all

> because they contained those green onions. I wonder

> how the onions were infected? Oddly I had purchased

> some green onions and used them in a macaroni and

> cheese casserole on the same day the news story broke.

> We were sitting at the table eating and my family

> asked what I put in the casserole and as I was going

> through the ingredients we blanched; we hoped the

> onions weren't of the same batch and that the cooking

> had killed any bad stuff off. It brought to my mind how

> little we can know about our food supply in this modern

> age where all we do is go to the super market and buy

> multiple items from many different places without even

> thinking.

 

Not just without thinking but without being able to know -- the Bush

League just extended for two more years a provision to prevent foods from

being labeled as to their point of origin. Under Clinton there was at

least an attempt to make it clear where our food is grown, but big

agriculture doesn't want to come clean. After all, the more we know, the

less they can get away with.

>

> Last night I was in the store and out of curiousity I looked

> through the produce isle to see if I could tell where the food

> was grown. Pretty much nothing is labeled well except for

> some of the fruit items like apples and oranges. Kind of

> unsettling. I remember a few years ago we had a scare with

> canteloupe from Mexico and salmonila poisoning and I had

> to find a produce clerk to ask him if the ones in their store

> were from that region. He said they weren't, but still, without

> labels or disclosure we just cannot know.

>

> ~ feral ~

" Just following orders is the standard state of mankind. "