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Jul. 25th, 2012 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddywolfOn the odd side: today I got an email from change.org about a petition somebody started to ensure that Trader Joe's sells only meats raised without anti-biotics. In and of itself, that's laudable. The person who launched the campaign says her daughter got sick from salmonella from eating ground turkey. OK, troublesome.
She then goes on to mention that the meat she fed her daughter, the meat that got her sick, did not come from Trader Joe's. However, because they are known for their progressive policies, she wants Trader Joe's to make this promise. The quote:
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The first thing that came to mind was, "Why are you not petitioning the store that actually sold you the bad meat, instead of Trader Joe's?"
She then goes on to mention that the meat she fed her daughter, the meat that got her sick, did not come from Trader Joe's. However, because they are known for their progressive policies, she wants Trader Joe's to make this promise. The quote:
Trader Joe's is a progressive grocery store with high standards for the food they sell (and is not where the meat came from that made Ruby sick). But in my community, many people shop at Trader Joe’s for products that are good for their health and good for the environment. Help me tell my story to Trader Joe’s, and encourage them to sell only meat raised without antibiotics.
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The first thing that came to mind was, "Why are you not petitioning the store that actually sold you the bad meat, instead of Trader Joe's?"
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Date: 2012-07-25 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-26 12:46 am (UTC)However, non-antibiotic-resistant salmonella can get you damned sick also (it happened at a wedding I went to!), and much of the salmonella that gets into the food supply (as far as I can tell) is from lax handling during production (that is, turning animals into products). For that, the best fix would be tightening up the regulations on production techniques.
More depressingly, I note that if the woman's petition was successful, she wouldn't be paying the price for the improvement.
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Date: 2012-07-26 03:17 am (UTC)Yeah, but antibiotic resistant salmonella is harder to treat.