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 ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21702 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 
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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 wrote: 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 See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier     Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31249 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 
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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. |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21702 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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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! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22765 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
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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..... Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31249 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32
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Ohhh... You mean industrial mechanized 'processing/chemical' plants... 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/ |
Scrooge McDuck  Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1589 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 
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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. |
W-K 666  Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19643 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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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. |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19643 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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And now it's frozen waffles recalled due to listeria concerns. Latest on this says they have increased the list to include other products, mainly pancakes, as far as I can tell. |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19643 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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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. |
Dr Who Fan  Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3449 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4
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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?? |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31249 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32
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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. |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21702 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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This was totally unnecessary... ... Years of Lead in Gasoline Caused {at least} 150 Million Mental Health Disorders {in USA} wrote: ... Today there's routine blood screenings for high levels of lead, study co-author Reuben says. But in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, "folks were walking around with an average blood lead value that today would trigger clinical follow-up." There is some very deadly profit there... All in our deadly greedy corporate world... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21702 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Now this is a nasty one: EU plans ban on 'forever chemicals' in consumer products wrote: The European Commission intends to propose a ban on the use of PFAS, or "forever chemicals", in consumer products, with exemptions for essential industrial uses... Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination wrote: The island’s private drinking water supplies were polluted by ... ‘forever chemicals’... Yes... That "bloodletting" followed by a swift clean stiff drink is for real as the only treatment to dilute the concentration of PFAS in the victim's blood... Short of running a full blood transfusion! ... Just follow the trail of permanently preserved dead vampires! Stay healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21702 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Now this one is worrying: Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising... ... Dementias... ... And those numbers are scarily high... Do you want a puddin'-brain with your plastic wraps?... Stay cleanly healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21702 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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A nasty one: Children under eight should avoid drinking slushies... wrote: Children should completely avoid "slushy" ice drinks containing glycerol, which can make them very ill... ... And the slushies are made to be brightly coloured and sweet and addictively appealing... ... Who would have thought? Stay healthy folks... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21702 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Trump admin accused of censoring NIH’s top expert on ultra-processed foods wrote: Kevin Hall, a prominent nutrition expert who led influential studies on ultra-processed foods, has resigned from his long-held position at the National Institutes of Health, alleging censorship... Crazy stuff? Live and eat well?? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21702 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Wow! Never thought I'd ever see anything like as forthright as this: Why the ‘big food’ industry is killing us – and how to fight back | Prof. Brian Elbel & Tim Spector The big names are named... Instead: Eat well and healthy! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1589 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54
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I suggest the classic 1976 French movie "L'Aile ou la Cuisse" (en: "The Wing or the Thigh"), starring Louis de Funès and Coluche. The plot is about Charles Duchemin, a famous French restaurant reviewer and editor of the most-renowned French restaurant guide, the Guide Duchemin (a ironic alteration of Guide Michelin). His opponent is the ruthless, greedy manager Jacques Tricatel (likely a reference to Jaques Borel, back then an influential promoter of industrial food in France). Tricatel, the owner of a corporation for mass-produced food, tries to take over a large number of quality restaurants, awarded stars by the Guide Duchemin. So, the brave Duchemin and his son break into one of Tricatel's factories to collect enough evidence of illegal ingredients and irresponsible manufacturing practices to destroy Tricatel's reputation in a scheduled live TV show. This 1976 movie was just an ironic comedy. But today's industrial food business is way beyond what was depicted in funny scenes in this movie; that is, what people of the 1970s thought would be the worst imaginable future. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074103/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/laile_ou_la_cuisse |
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