More and more there are reports of contaminated food, whether it’s food poisoning from a fast food restaurant to salmonella in your peanut butter. Huh? Salmonella in peanut butter? And now they recently recalled fresh spinach from California farms for testing positive with salmonella - again!
How is this happening? More importantly, why is this happening? Are workers in food processing facilities becoming lazy and not cleaning the equipment properly, or handling the food in a sanitary manner? Do they wash their hands after using the toilet? Is someone throwing dead chickens into the vats?
Let’s get back to the salmonella in the peanut butter issue. How in the world, does salmonella, a bacteria found in pork, chicken, and eggs as well as other fowl, find its way into a peanut processing plant? Peanuts aren’t chickens, so where does this come from? Maybe someone has a clue, because with all the technical advances and gadgetry, why does it sometimes feel as though we are living in a third world country, where food preparation is not properly accomplished and basic hygiene is not followed?
Either the people who are supposed to be regulating the restaurants and plants are way too busy to check on everyone or they are looking the other way. Something has to be done about the lack of health concerns when it comes to the food industries.
Hey I understand that once in a while it can happen - but salmonella in peanut butter?
What do you think should be done about it. Should we write letters to our Congress? Senator?
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