Ongoing, worldwide:


‘I won’t believe it until I see it happen’: Could a ban on sea farms save Canada’s salmon?
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A row over sea life, lice and livelihoods is dividing communities as the government plans to end open-net pen farming in British Columbian waters...

... But now the salmon farming industry, blamed for contributing to the collapse of wild salmon stocks, faces an uncertain future. In June, the Canadian government announced a ban on open-net pen salmon farming from coastal waters in July 2029, as part of a commitment “to protecting wild salmon and promoting more sustainable aquaculture practices”.

Concerns about the industry’s impact on wild salmon played a leading role in the closure of about three dozen farms in British Columbia over the past seven years...

... soundly criticised by Canada’s salmon farming industry, which largely consists of multinational corporations that farm salmon around the world ... The industry says moving salmon farming to closed containment systems on land or in the water, as the government suggests, is not logistically feasible and would be prohibitively expensive...

... the Canadian government’s new 2029 deadline may just be an empty promise, after its earlier, unfulfilled commitment to remove open-net pen salmon farms by 2025. “I won’t believe anything that the government says until I see it happen,”...

... “Wealth isn’t money,” he says. “What we have in our territory, what we have in the ocean, what we have in the air, that’s wealth.”

Will we ever learn to be sustainable and clean?

And good and healthy?


All on our only one planet,
Martin

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Yuck!

And incredibly widespread across a USA-wide supply chain:

There’s another massive meat recall over Listeria—and it’s a doozy
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No cases reported so far, but officials are scrambling to track tainted products

We can expect people to die from that one...

Spread across how many companies/brands??!!!

11.8 MILLION pounds (weight) of the stuff. Over 300 pages listing the known companies so far...


... I wouldn't use the innocuous description "doozy" for this latest killer... Truly greedy profits before healthy ways?

Do you truly know your meat?


Stay healthy folks!
Martin

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Do you truly know your meat?

Do you know how few plants actually process meat? Do you know how many thousands of brands come out of the same plant? Greedy profit monopoly.

Do you truly know your meat?

Do you know how few plants actually process meat?

I can only think of just TWO off hand:

The Venus Flytrap;
And Pitcher plants.

... Do you know how many thousands of brands come out of the same plant? Greedy profit monopoly.

Ohhh... You mean industrial mechanized 'processing/chemical' plants...


Sorry for the vegetarian answer!

Eat healthy folks!
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[url] Ohhh... You mean industrial mechanized 'processing/chemical' plants...[/url]

Actually a pretty accurate description of where (most) fast food comes from.

There are a few butchers who "roll their own" cured meats and sausages, starting with hunks of meat fresh from the animal (Daisy is now departed) which are processed by hand and time.....

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Ohhh... You mean industrial mechanized 'processing/chemical' plants...

Actually a pretty accurate description of where (most) fast food comes from.

There are a few butchers who "roll their own" cured meats and sausages, starting with hunks of meat fresh from the animal (Daisy is now departed) which are processed by hand and time.....

I can think of one very fine restaurant establishment that does so. If you ever find yourself in California on I5 in the vicinity of Coalinga it is worth a stop. https://www.harrisranchbeef.com/
and the restaurant https://www.harrisranch.com/

There are a few butchers who "roll their own" cured meats and sausages, starting with hunks of meat fresh from the animal (Daisy is now departed) which are processed by hand and time.....

I read a long newspaper article a month ago...

The German tradition of small butcher family businesses seems to come to an end, as ever more requirements, bureaucracy, hygiene standards and building regulations make the operation of historic butcher shops as family businesses uneconomical. The older master butchers (a government regulated professional education) run their family shop until they retire; their descendants rarely follow in their footsteps... Many businesses are even closed earlier if they are forced to extensive construction work (to adhere to newer regulations and requirements). For example, it is now forbidden to transport a closed box from a cold storage room to the shop on the premises of a historic butcher shop unless the entire path in between is protected by a roof. Higher tax burdens if the family business operates additional sales outlets in neighboring towns...

The former family businesses bought meat from regional farmers, who they have known personally for decades. Industrial plants buy from the "market" (from all over Europe). Long-distance animal transport, no matter how regulated, means animal cruelty. In our modern industrial plants profit is generated by semi-skilled, still poorly paid workers from Eastern/Southeastern Europe. So much meat is processed there that hygiene authorities cannot check everywhere and anytime 24/7.

In the past, authorities did not need to check artisan butchers 24/7. They mastered their profession and had a reputation to lose, thus the well-being of their family business.

Gary referred to the fact that a few large plants process most of the meat on the market supplying thousands of different "brands". That's perfect for greedy managers. If there's a large-scale undeniable scandal; they can drop a few "brands". They only loose invested money on advertisement; not their expensive processing plants.

And now it's frozen waffles recalled due to listeria concerns.

Frozen Waffle Recall Sparks Nationwide Listeria Warning

TreeHouse Foods, Inc. voluntarily recalled several hundred waffle products across 25 of its brands, which have been distributed around the U.S. and Canada, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced.

List of brands in article.

And now it's frozen waffles recalled due to listeria concerns.

Frozen Waffle Recall Sparks Nationwide Listeria Warning

TreeHouse Foods, Inc. voluntarily recalled several hundred waffle products across 25 of its brands, which have been distributed around the U.S. and Canada, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced.

List of brands in article.

Latest on this says they have increased the list to include other products, mainly pancakes, as far as I can tell.

Advised not to eat your waffles and pancakes, and not much in the house, so how about going to MacDonalds for a quarter pounder.

Deadly E.coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders in US

Some 49 cases are reported - including one person who has died - as those interviewed in connection with the outbreak reported eating at McDonald's before falling ill.

One person has died and 10 have been taken to hospital after an outbreak of E.coli linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers in the US.
Infections were reported between 27 September and 11 October across 10 US states; Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Colorado has 27 of the 49 reported cases - including an older person who died and one child who has severe kidney complications, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.
The public health agency said the number of illnesses is likely much higher and recent cases may not have been reported yet, as it usually takes three to four weeks to determine if a sick person is part of an outbreak.
It is unknown what ingredient is making people sick, but everyone interviewed in connection with the outbreak reported eating at McDonald's before falling ill - and most mentioned consuming the popular Quarter Pounder.

It is unknown what ingredient is making people sick, but everyone interviewed in connection with the outbreak reported eating at McDonald's before falling ill - and most mentioned consuming the popular Quarter Pounder.

I could not find anything to prove this but... I wonder if the McDonald's beef was possibly involved in the other recently mentioned beef & other prepared 'meat' recalls??

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/health/mcdonalds-e-coli-quarter-pounder-investigation/index.html

According to the agency, the beef patties are used only for the Quarter Pounders, and the slivered onions are used primarily for the Quarter Pounder and not other items. Diced onions and other types of beef patties used at McDonald’s have not been implicated in this outbreak, the FDA said.