Feeling Safer Yet?
May 19th, 2008 at 7:52 am by Susie
Just in time for cookout season!
CHICAGO (AP) — Federal officials say a Chicago-based company is recalling beef products distributed in 11 states, including Illinois, because of possible E. coli contamination.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Saturday that no illnesses have reported from the meat, produced by JSM Meat Holdings Co. The agency was uncertain how much meat is being recalled.The meat being recalled is used in ground beef products. Included are 30-pound and 60-pound boxes and 47-gallon barrels of “MORREALE MEAT” beef products. The products have the number “ET. 6872″ inside the USDA mark of inspection.
[...] The states affected are Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
I was thinking of things like this over the past week while hearing the threatening commercials to buckle up. I thought, here we’re being conditioned to expect cops peering into our cars to forestall personal (albeit stupid) driving behavior. Yet we’ll allow, even encourage thru policies, companies to market tainted products that could hurt or kill hundreds, perhaps more.
Hell of a society we’ve got, isn’t it?