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[teddywolf]

On 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:

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.
emphasis added

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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[moria923.livejournal.com]

My first thought too. Sounds like what she's really trying to do is recruit TJ's as an ally: the community needs a reasonably-priced place to buy safe meat, and TJ's, being a progressive business, would be more willing to do this than the (presumably) less-progressive store where she bought the bad stuff.