A new report reveals salmonella is widespread in U.S. poultry production, with major brands like such as Costco regularly exceeding federal safety limits.
The USDA lacks authority to enforce salmonella standards or halt sales; inspectors can only note violations.
When the government reclassified E. coli into a more serious category, there were more recalls and fewer cases of illness.
That’s why Europe does not want American chicken.
Thoth the creator of circle magic, who is also maybe a great old one
America is such a funny place. From the outside it looks amazing and advanced and all techy and freedom and stuff but every time you learn something about it you realize it’s really a lipstick covered dead rotten pig.
I’m American and I moved to Germany a few years ago. The first time I went to a bathroom at my university with a soap grater, I laughed at it because it was so bizarrely old fashioned. Then I realized that the university I went to in the US had automatic soap dispensers that jammed up on a regular basis, and the soap graters were probably 50 years older than the dispensers and still worked perfectly.
That’s a good metaphor for my life in the US compared to Germany, I think. I don’t have a car or a microwave, but I don’t need them and actually live better without them. I don’t have a freezer, which sucks, but I do probably eat better because of it. I have two less fancy and worse paying jobs that activate my brain and body better and afford more in fewer hours than my one job in the US.
Why dont you just buy a freezer and a microwave? Most Germans have them.
No space 🤷
Microwaves seem about 50:50 in my area, but most people here have freezers.
I don’t think it looks amazing from the outside either.
Not sure how to take this. I assume all raw chicken has some degree of salmonella and cook appropriately. I’ve done some fairly gross shit, like washing off breasts that started to get slimy on the outside, never got sick. My sense of smell is pretty weak, but as long as it doesn’t have that smell, good to go.
When inspectors visit a plant, they do not assess the meat’s bacterial load, nor do they determine the strain of bacteria found on the product. They just test for the presence of the bacterium — it’s either there or it’s not.
I’m not convinced that’s valid safety testing. Anyone closer to the trade want to comment?
Biden was full out reclassifying salmonella as an adulterant.
That means if there is salmonella it has to be recalled.
Just soak it in bleach, it’ll be fine.
Yum!
I mean…that sounds like a good idea on the surface. I don’t know enough at the moment to take a deeper opinion on the matter though.
what if we, and hear me out because this is pretty controversial, what if we didn’t kill 70B chickens a year?
If you eat chicken, and I do, you should kill and process one at least once. I am happy to pay more than $1.29/lb for decent chicken. And lucky that I can find it near me.
Lol. Fucking joke country. Have fun with that. Imma gulp down some raw unwashed free range chicken eggs that cost me next to nothing from the grocery store that I walk to.
Don’t forget they’re not only unwashed, but also salmonella free. US-Americans don’t get it if you don’t explicitly explain that to them 😉
I like Costco as a business (at least as much as one can like any business) but I refuse to buy their chicken. I’ve never opened a package of it that wasn’t covered in pink slime and had an odor.
Hmm, that might be a bad sign for your area. I’ve gone to costco in different states and countries, and the chicken was always fine. I believe different regions get different suppliers. I’ve even noticed variations between multiple Costcos in a city.
