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- amabaie, on 06/16/2009, -1/+14How worried should I be about food safety? I'd be pretty worried. Tomatoes can't cross the street too quickly, and they are mighty squishy, and it takes just one driver not paying attention...
- borez, on 06/16/2009, -1/+12How worried should you be about sensationalist writers trying to get you to worry about ***** not worth worrying about all the time?
- gametavern, on 06/16/2009, -0/+9I'm not, neither is anyone else according to the amount of comments here.
- WilliamDavis, on 06/16/2009, -0/+7If food causes 5700 deaths per year, the first thing we should do is make it illegal.
- TheMachine1, on 06/16/2009, -2/+6Bit concern about a 15 lbs bag of potatoes I have on a tall shelf. If that shelf collapsed it could put a major hurt on my head.
- serjosh, on 06/16/2009, -0/+4What you should be worried about is the fear mongering related to this article. What this causes is the government to impose regulations that put small farmers out of business. These small farmers aren't going to be the ones spreading food diseases across the entire country.
- 700c26, on 06/16/2009, -0/+3So if you live in the US, you have around a 0.0019% (1 out of 52,000) chance of dying from a food borne illness in any given year. Considering every single person eats, and most of us do it quite often, the chances of any individual meal causing death are absolutely miniscule.
- xsecretfiles, on 06/16/2009, -1/+4So?
- roho76, on 06/16/2009, -0/+3This is what happens when you get your Genetically engineered, chemically sprayed food from a dirty factory in China (or Georgia) instead of your garden and local merchants.
- richmomz, on 06/16/2009, -1/+4I'm more worried about them overregulating things - lately there have been some pretty disturbing bills that would wrap up the local Farmer's Market in some ridiculous red tape (to big corporate-Agro's advantage of course).
- Barackalypse, on 06/16/2009, -0/+3You should be very worried, but not about any of the things this article mentions, you ought to be worried about the chemical contamination of food products coming from China (melamine in the baby formula and pet food). You get one of the bacteria mentioned in this article, 9 times out of ten you'll be sick for a week or two and fully recover. You get poisoned by melamine and your kidneys get damaged, potentially enough to kill you. At least some of the bacterial contamination risk can be eliminated through proper food handling procedures on your end, but short of testing every food product you eat, you'll never know what chemical contaminents are in it. Also, don't make the mistake of assuming something packaged in the US is safe, China is a major supplier of things like ascorbic acid (vitamin C), so even things produced here may have chemicals of questionable origin.
- Dustin00, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2Considering the % of people that eat at McDonalds each day, food illnesses are far down on the list of problems around food that these people have.
- stonebear, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2It's just propaganda to get people to acquiesce to this: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111 ...
Widely criticized as an attempt to criminalize non corporate agriculture, including home production; H.R. 875 was drafted by the wife of a Monsanto executive. - PandaBearShenyu, on 06/16/2009, -1/+3How worried should people be about dying from allergies to everything as we wrap ourselves in a protective film away from any and all bacteria.
- Moisgreat, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2When your climbing up a ladder and your bladder starts to splatter.....
- DrJG, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2Really the answer is decentralisation, more local food and growing your own, farmer's markets (if something is bad you know who it came from and talk to them personally, much better than a coroporate that will drag a lawsuit for ever) and cleaning the tomatoes and other vegetables before the rest of processing in the kitchen.
- reverant, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2I'm not. I eat whatever - infected BP&J, old ham from christmas, etc. Never get sick off of it.
I think you can build up your tolerance to that stuff and it becomes not a problem. - richmomz, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Food poisioning sucks and some regulation is needed for processed foods (particularly canned ones) but there's only so much you can do. If you go to Burger King and some slob cross contaminates your Whopper, there's not much Obama can do to help you with that...
- stonebear, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Actually it costs a lot more, and in case you haven't noticed; were broke now.
- TINZUSA, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1I am more concerned about Frankenstein Foods and the use of preservatives and pesticides.
- richmomz, on 06/16/2009, -1/+2Hey you better take this seriously! If people can get worked up over cow farts and excessive mouth breathing causing global warming imagine how much damage a crate full of rogue tomatoes could cause!
- EnjoyFailure, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1George Carlin said it best:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids. ... - richmomz, on 06/16/2009, -1/+2I dropped a jar of pickles on my big toe once - damn things should have warning labels on them!
- digiguy, on 06/16/2009, -1/+2Maybe people should worry about that worker making your burger at these fast food restaurants without gloves and sneezing all over the place.
- Hyphven, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Buried.
- inactive, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1You should try sneezing on them back they ***** love it
- DrJG, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1In fact you CAN do a lot more about plant foods, from local farmers to growing your own in the yard.
- Kate1240, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1We need to take action against genetically modified food.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food - rampam91, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Fast Food Nation- a great book by Eric Schlosser that deals with the subject
- time4evacuation, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Food safty is a big deal we need to get a grip on this situatuation and i k ow that i am the man who is the one who can do it? i can do it and i just did? this is a small warning to all that you are not safe on digg. i am the hacker who now runs this account and now i have all info from everyone who has commented on this. lets hope you dont have any real info that may make me rich. i am who i am and now i am who you are.
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- natural4me, on 06/26/2009, -0/+0Actually, you can also buy organic produce as well. Now-a-days, they are not that more expensive than non-organic produce. You can also grow your own depending on where you live and your time constraints. I mean, you cannot avoid eating and choosing to do nothing about taking control of your health means that you are allowing these people to basically poison you and your family.
- hawk0168, on 06/16/2009, -1/+1Listeria is the big one that most people don't think about. Also these comments suck.
- LuxuryisGreat, on 06/16/2009, -0/+0I tried to look away when I read this story. Great facts but now I cannot eat my medium rare cheeseburger. What else is next???
- Cowzeetgrass, on 06/16/2009, -0/+0I'm a fan of George, and when I saw that title, this was the first thing that popped into my head, so I'm glad someone beat me to it.
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- Th3Wh1teRabb1t, on 06/16/2009, -1/+1Why did the tomato cross the road?
- FlortNet, on 06/17/2009, -0/+0said it best...
http://www.flort.net - SoleIntentions, on 06/23/2009, -0/+0Our government is NOT concerned about the safety of our food supply, they are concerned about profits. Please educate yourselves on how much of the food you buy is subjected to radiation (yup, the same radiation that kills cancer...and everything else), as well as GMO foods. (genetically modified) Support your local farmer's markets. Support the organic sections in your grocery stores. Grow your own produce if possible. Remember the simple law of supply and demand. Take charge of your health, not your illnesses and diseases.
- bjnebraska, on 06/16/2009, -2/+1But you have approximately a 29% risk (1 out of 3.5) of having a case of food-borne illness. That should be unacceptable in what used to be a first-world country. Also the fact that "foodborne disease is no longer on the decline" should give us pause. Our industrial food supply is killing us- slowly or quickly. I think if you add in deaths from other food-related causes (e.g. obesity, diabetes, cardiac problems etc..) then the true death toll would be much higher.
- Ranzera, on 06/16/2009, -4/+2Meat products in the US are not grown in safe environments for the most part. It's not surprising at all that diseases are starting to crop up more frequently from them.
There's not a lot you can do(as a consumer) in regards to plant food but you can elect to pay a little more and buy free range meat. Down the road it's a safer bet.
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