From Raine Saunders at the Agriculture Society blog:
“Tainted meat is available everywhere…grocery stores, restaurants, schools, hospitals, prisons…you name it. And it’s all over the news this week and last week – NY Times, NPR,Food Safety News, Sauk Valley News, The News Tribune,Daily Finance, Bellingham Herald, and many others. And you know when mainstream news outlets start reporting news items like this, the problem is an epidemic.
This is not a new problem. In 2008, the largest meat recall in history (to that date) was issued, as reported by many different outlets – again, so it’s not like people weren’t made aware of this issue.
Other nationwide meat recalls were issued in 2010 such as the one from Rudolph Foods Company, Inc. in California (205 pounds in January), Huntington Meat Packing Inc. in California (4.9 million pounds in February), Zemco Industries in New York (380,000 pounds in August), and there were many, many more. Continue reading →