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Unfortunately, viewers who tuned into a Sunday CNN segment on the crisiswhich featured a blogger who bills herself as Food Babe, instead of a scientist or doctorgot the wrong answers.
Anchor Ana Cabrera kicked things off by describing self-appointed food investigator Vani Hari as someone who has studied where our food comes from quite a bit before asking how the outbreak happened. .
[W]hat's the worst part of this situation is that we do not have a supply chain check-and-balance in place, Hari said. Once your romaine is grown and harvested, it has so many different touch points of contamination possible. You know, that romaine is taken to one factory to get washed. Then another factory to get banged, put into different bags of lettuce and then combined with other kinds of lettuce. And every single time it gets cut or washed it touches different machinery so there's so many different points of contamination that can happen. And if we don't know where our food is coming from, we can't really trust it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-lets-food-babe-spout-pseudoscience-on-lettuce-outbreak?ref=home
Cirque du So-What
(26,025 posts)Lettuce has a richer social life than incels!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I need to see this lettuce banging factory!
Pics or it never happened!
LSFL
(1,110 posts)"NO LETTUCE BANGING ALLOWED, YOU PRICKS!"
Ugh...the thought of ecoli being transmitted sexually is discomfitting.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)mmmmm buttercrunch
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UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Due to the highly lucrative pay available in that field.
underpants
(182,988 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)She and all others like her are a menace to science and public health.
What's happening is the overuse of antibiotics is creating superbugs that can't be treated with antibiotics, she told Cabrera.
But Laura Gieraltowski, who leads the Foodborne Outbreak Response team at the CDC that is investigating the romaine contamination, told The Daily Beast thats not true. This outbreak strain of E. coli does not appear to be resistant to antibiotics, she said via email.
In fact, she said, antibiotics are not recommended for patients suffering from E. coli O157 infections, as it might increase their risk of developing a type of kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome.
womanofthehills
(8,801 posts)All the glyphosate sprayed on the soil, kills all the good bacteria in the soil and I'm sure this contributes to pathogens. Also, when processed in bags, cross contamination can make the whole problem worse according to WaPo article.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/04/26/why-e-coli-keeps-getting-into-our-lettuce/?utm_term=.59dfdcf9b9b7
womanofthehills
(8,801 posts)At this point i would trust her more than Trump's FDA. Thump's FDA has been lax in food regulations and in inspections. She is the opposite of a menace to public health as she has forced many fast food companies to get rid of toxic chemicals in their food.
Washington Post article saying the same thing as Food Babe about bagged lettuce
Once the greens are picked, they move to a packaging plant, where theyre exposed to more workers and more equipment. Product from multiple farms is often bagged in the same facility, which further increases the odds of cross-contamination.
While packers frequently rinse lettuce with a chlorine wash to kill pathogens, studies have shown those sprays are only partly effective. The same is true of washing fruits and vegetables at home, Tauxe said, because pathogens cling to the surface of produce and can even enter the inside of a leaf or fruit after they've been cut open.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/04/26/why-e-coli-keeps-getting-into-our-lettuce/?utm_term=.59dfdcf9b9b7
tymorial
(3,433 posts)I am not going to waste my time arguing the validity of pseudoscientific nonsense. It's all rubbish.
womanofthehills
(8,801 posts)and we actually had people checking that people were following regulations. Bye bye to all that under Trump. Trump vowed to undo what Obama had done - including food safety.
Since when did eating foods without chemicals become nonsense. When the government doesn't do it's job, maybe the women need to step in.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)Water is a chemical compound. Everything is chemical. The use of chemical as a boogeyman to spread fear is contemptible. So too is the use of "natural" for marketing products. It is exploitation of fear pure and simple. Trumps idiocy has nothing to do with this. These arguments have been going on for years and "food babe" is just another person tapping into this particular brand of fearmongering. I realize nothing I wrote will sway your opinion so I wont bore you with the numerous materials debunking Vani Hari's lunacy. I will however never stop tailing against her and people like her. Woo harms lives. Eom.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Evidently, they are taking cues from Faux Nooze now. "Can Tomi come on to talk about the lettuce issue?"
womanofthehills
(8,801 posts)Vani Hari sounds the alarm for changing the food industry - (below just 2 of many companies she got to use better ingredients). She is peddling eating fresh food - so you call that pseudoscience?
In late 2013, Kraft pledged to remove these dyes from their popular children's shaped macaroni and cheeses by 2014. And on April 20, 2015, the company announced plans to drop the dyes and artificial preservatives from its classic mac & cheese. "We finally did it!" Hari proclaimed on her blog.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vani-hari-food-babe-sounds-the-alarm-for-change-in-the-food-industry/
Steven Gorski contradicts what she says at the end of the article but, we all know by now, that Gorski is a Monsanto shrill.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I apologize if she is actually in the know.