> 76 million people yearly attrack e-coli and/or salmonella infection. Now, if
> organic is 1% of the market, I understand 2,5 million of these are organic
> consumers eating Spring Mix, but who are the other 73,5 million?
> wytze
I'd love to have a class of 8th or 9th grade kids evaluate the
continuity of subject matter in that transcript. Then send the grade of
D- to the network HQ. One of the first things they said is that most of
the E.coli contamination comes from meat ("mostly meat rather than
produce," below). Then they sprang right into small percent which
doesn't?
I wonder if they think it would be good to take "conventional" lettuce
and contaminate it with cow dung and then feed it to people? Like maybe
non-organic lettuce cannot have feces stick to it or something? Avery
has used that example to "prove" his point several times, but it has
been shown that the contamination took place after that lettuce was
harvested and was a result of unhygienic handling, which, of course, he
knows.
Then there is the language "investigates," "argues," etc. Perhaps just
saying some words constitutes the support of an argument in their secret
language. "Kids, get out your dictionaries and see if you think what
this guy said fits the definition of "argument."
And now we know what constitutes an investigation as done by J.
Stossel. I remember now why we banished the TV set. Too much work to
separate wheat from chaff, and way too much chaff.
>
> Rick Roush wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a what is supposed to be a transcript of the program. Is the
> > following excerpt an accurate reflection of the program?
> >
> > Dr. Lester Crawford was once Chief of Food Safety for the Government. Now, he
> > runs the food and nutrition center at Georgetown University. Everything has
> > a little bacteria, but that's okay. We can handle that?
> > LESTER CRAWFORD (former Chief of Food Safety for the Government): You can
> > handle spoilage bacteria, but you can't handle pathogens, those bacteria
> > that cause disease in humans.
> > REPORTER: The Center for Disease Control say thousands of Americans die
> > every year after eating food, mostly meat rather than produce, that contains
> > organisms like e-coli or salmonella. And many more get sick? And they think
> > they have the flu?
> > CRAWFORD: Approximately 76 million get sick each year with one of these
> > organisms.
> > REPORTER: Seventy-six million, many of you who thought you had the flu were
> > really sick from food. Some get seriously sick. When Haylee Bernstein was 3,
> > she ate some organic lettuce that had been contaminated by cow manure. Her
> > kidneys shut down. She spent months in a hospital, on a ventilator, until
> > she was released with permanent damage to her sight.
> > BERNSTEIN (Haylee's Mother): You're talking a perfectly healthy, normal, you
> > know, great kid, who just ate some lettuce.
> > REPORTER: But who says that there are more of these organisms in organic
> > foods? We searched the records and found there have been no tests done that
> > actually compare bacteria counts in organic versus normal food. So we did
> > our own laboratory sampling.
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