I Told You So

From JackLewis.net, June 22,2007...

The stringent rules our own government places on the growth, harvesting, processing and production of food has maintained a safe food supply in the past. But an emerging factor [illegal immigration] puts third-world hygiene in the food production chain, exposing millions of Americans to disease, illness and possibly death.

From the Associated Press...

People should immediately throw away more than 90 different products, from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a plant linked to a botulism outbreak, the government warned Monday. Castleberry's Food Company temporarily closed the suspect plant.

"You're talking tens of millions of cans that may have been involved," said Robert Brackett, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

In cases like this, I hate it when I'm right because four people are now in the hospital. Reuters reports...

U.S. officials said an outbreak of botulism due to a commercially canned food is extremely rare and has not occurred in the United States in more than three decades.

Yet I predicted it four and a half weeks ago.

Want another prediction?

It won't be long before we're hearing the same thing about McDonald's hamburgers. In our area—and this may also be true for other parts of the nation as well—most McDonald's employees speak only Spanish, meaning they are immigrants, possibly even illegal. Twice now, once several years ago and again just last week, we have bought hamburgers at McDonald's with buns stained pink from bloody juice dripping off the undercooked meat. We won't be eating at McDonald's for a very, very long time.

As health standards at McDonald's slip, it will only be a short time until undercooked meat hospitalizes or kills someone. I'm sure their bean counters have figured so much money saved hiring immigrants of questionable legality or other cost saving, yet dangerous shortcuts v. the possible lawsuits and other economic repercussions of someone's kid dying from an E. Coli laced hamburger and decided that the savings are worth it. McMachiavelli.

If Morgan Spurlock weren't such an sissy idiot, that's what he could have done his "documentary" on.

Posted by Danny Carlton at July 24, 2007 6:51 AM