KILL 'EM ALL AND LET GOD SORT 'EM OUT

...whaddaya mean God didn't sort 'em out? Oh, uh... gee... now what do we do? Another illustration of how the "toilet assumption" works against our ability to think intelligently about our food sources.

I'LL JUST SWITCH TO FISH...

Got fish? Yeah, that's a healthy alternative. Folks, it's this simple. Animal fat, the thing that's so good at trapping those vitamins and minerals we love, also inevitably traps pollutants - at rates exponentially higher than plants. It doesn't matter if you dance from beef to chicken to fish - no matter what animal product it is, in addition to everything else you get from it, you're going to be piling on the toxins!

MEAT FACTS CLAIMS FIRST VICTORY

The USDA read my blog from Monday (and probably its entire one-week archive) and responded quickly. They're now promising to tell suppliers RIGHT AWAY, instead of 12 days later, when they find e. coli - i.e. feces - on meat that's going out to consumers. And then they acted even more quickly, finally letting us know about e.coli-carring fecal material in meat that was slaughtered back in FEBRUARY. Mmmmmm, that's some tasty crap! ...but at least the USDA making some noise. See if it gets followed by any consequence.

ALL SHE ATE WAS A MEATBALL - AND IT NEARLY KILLED HER

"We nearly lost her," said Marcel Rodriguez as he held his 2-year-old daughter's
tiny hand Thursday at Children's Hospital. "All she ate was a meatball." This is from that ConAgra recall I pointed to in an earlier post ("Got Chubs?"). Turns out USDA had found e-coli infected meat weeks before but didn't tell anyone, because - and this, they admit, is the reason - they didn't want to do any damage to the company. So instead, a couple dozen people have been made violently ill and parents have watched their young children almost die. Gotta have those priorities!