Egg recall: Industry is blaming consumers

Blaming the consumers! that's a laugh. How more audacious can someone be?
I think arresting and jailling all the hens would be less ridiculous even if they were forced to produce those eggs against their will. That's ... (don't know what to call it)

It is starting to sound like the food integrity in Mexico. Having lived and work in Mexico and other third world countries you learn to be very careful with food. The sanitary standards of the workers and food system in general would scare you. In the U.S. we supposedly pay the government to protect us from this but I am losing my confidence erodes daily. For one thing the workers in the industry need to be educated because the majority come from the same third world countries that have lacks food standards. The other thing is that the food industry insists on hiring third world workers to improve their bottom line ergo they increased profits should be made available through the court system to offset the injuries hoisted upon their customers. Fair is fair in this regard. Perhaps warning labels should simply state Consumer should not any any safety regarding this product . Use at your own risk.

Imo this particular issue shows how much power we really Don't have over the government. This is one of those rare issues where nearly all of us can agree we want to see improvement but I don't see any visible progress. Instead we're constantly bombarded with stories of contaminated foods, effects of chemicals in our food supply, and other lovely items. I buy local and buy organic but beyond that I just don't have the amount of money the lobbyistis do.

My grandmother says these folks a fraked up!!!

I would expect the industry to oppose any new food labeling. They always have.

Safety cuts into profits. It's cheaper to sell bad food, then mount a PR campaign after the fact. I'd say about 40% of my Newsvine webpages contain egg industry spin. How about yours? Are you getting their advertisement?

Google "food slander" for more sickening news. Corporations might have First Amendment protections in the USA today. We don't.

Are you feeling compliant?

A lot of food poisoning IS the consumer's fault. They don't cook meat thoroughly (it doesn't have to be burnt - just get it above a certain temperature!!!) Eggs... cook 'em!

And how could a place like an IHOP be held to purity standards of the eggs they cook and serve? They are not responsible for the product that arrives in a sealed "container". As long as they exercise reasonable care in the proper cooking and handling of that product, if it turns out to be contaminated, not their fault. Those menu warnings have been there for a LONG time... where have you been?

In the recent egg contamination situation, the last news I heard about it was that the contamination was the result of contaminated FEED delivered to at least two different egg companies. Yet all that we hear on the news is that the chickens are held in unsanitary crowded conditions. So?

Don't know how many of you have ever seen a chicken, but they're DIRTY by nature!!! Nasty things! BUT - that said, only the OUTSIDE of the egg comes into contact with the chicken's external environment - and the egg companies all wash and decontaminate the OUTSIDE of the eggs before they're shipped. So the contamination of the eggs happens INSIDE of the chicken - and the chicken's environment has NOTHING to do with the contaminated eggs. It's a closed process!!!!

How many people get salmonella from handling pet turtles? Or pet lizards? (Both of which routinely have salmonella bacteria on their hides/shells.)

Like the Alar/apple scare, too many people who know nothing about the food they eat or where and how it comes from make it easy for the enviro-freaks to promote panic over our food supplies. the USA has the cleanest food and water supplies in the world.