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AtheistCrusader

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10. It can come from perfectly organic free range stuff too.

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 08:06 PM

Oct 2013

Organic green onions killed like 130 people in Virginia a couple years back. It happens.

Inspections by a independent entity are the first, best safeguard against it.

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Salmonella tied to Foster Farms chicken hospitalizes dozens, may be drug-resistant [View all] n2doc Oct 2013 OP

this is one prime example why there should be government control Stargazer99 Oct 2013 #1

It's not like the FDA or CDC are essential government services YoungDemCA Oct 2013 #2

USDA FSIS provides inspectors for US packing plants/slaughterhouses and they are still up and kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #4

Oh goody. That is by far the leading brand of chicken out here. KamaAina Oct 2013 #3

Big supplier in food service too Auggie Oct 2013 #5

Tyson and Sanderson Farms are the big ones down here dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #7

It can't be drug resistant. AtheistCrusader Oct 2013 #6

Well, corporations are people, my friends! Left Coast2020 Oct 2013 #8

perhaps the answer is to raise the animals in cleaner conditions so they don't need AB to survive. Sunlei Oct 2013 #9

It can come from perfectly organic free range stuff too. AtheistCrusader Oct 2013 #10

yes but poultry are raised in the most filthy conditions and that adds to the contamination issue. Sunlei Oct 2013 #11

This is what happens when you have huge national food producers. 18 states? No local chickens? PSPS Oct 2013 #12

. blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #13