How Safe Is Our Food?

[Pat in KC]

Must Watch! Why hamburger is a gamble: A look at the bacteria dangerous to our health found in the foods that we eat.

Acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose takes a look at food safety with David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, Michael Pollan, Michael Moss and Dr. Jeffrey Bender.

Click here to watch the video:
Food Safety 10/21/09

*A look at food safety with David Kessler, author of The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Ap...

*Michael Pollan, Michael Moss and Dr. Jeffrey Bender

Here is the NY Times Front Page piece by Michael Moss discussed on the program:
E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Beef Inspection

The New York Times looks into why E coli bacteria in a Cargill hamburger put a Minnesota woman into a coma for nine weeks and then crippled her.

Here is what they found a tainted hamburger to be made from:

mix of slaughterhouse trimmings and a mash-like product derived from scraps that were ground together at a plant in Wisconsin. The ingredients came from slaughterhouses in Nebraska, Texas and Uruguay, and from a South Dakota company that processes fatty trimmings and treats them with ammonia to kill bacteria.

FoodSafety.gov

Kansas City Local Food Network

There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.
~~Dr. Frank A. Oski,
Former Director of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University