Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Liz" <liz@allslash.org>]

> So charge the processors for FDA inspections. then there's plenty of money
> for inspections. After all, it's their fault we have to inspect because
> they don't. What could be more fair?
Sure, why not? The processors can just pass the cost along to the consumers 
anyway.

What concerns me about this report is the emphasis on attacking the symptoms 
rather than the causes.

Quote--"Egg and poultry producers will have to follow new standards designed 
to
reduce salmonella contamination, including increased testing and
refrigeration for eggs."

If the hens weren't kept in such barbaric unsanitary conditions, there would 
be far less salmonella and other disease conditions to worry about. If more 
and smaller growers were encouraged, it would be easier to trace salmonella 
outbreaks as well.

Quote--"The Food Safety Inspection Service, the Agriculture Department 
agency
that inspects meat, will increase sampling of ground beef ingredients in an
effort to better find E. coli contamination."

Again, if the cows weren't confined in grossly unsanitary conditions and fed 
a diet that makes them vulnerable to disease, there would be far less e.coli 
to worry about, and growers wouldn't need to routinely feed anti-biotics.

But that's preaching to the choir, and most other people don't want to hear 
it.

Liz
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com