Food Recall Horror: It’s All In Bad Taste

I am sure that in most American refrigerators, there are remnants of what was once a Thanksgiving dinner. Some of these remnants may wind up in soups, or may be thrown out because they are spoiled.

We are lucky to be able to live in a world where we can either eat it or chuck it.

We eat every day – some people eat healthy and can afford to do so while there are others, however, that can’t afford to eat healthy and in the same process, don’t put much thought into what they eat because they just need to feel full.

We do not attach ourselves to our food stuffs, nor, do we understand how powerful food is along with it’s importance. It is presently being used as a weapon to keep people from rebelling against a system that has been created to keep you in a state of inertia.

George Orwell wrote in his book, 1984, that “Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation.”

Today in America, 1 in 2 Americans is low-income and/or poverty-stricken.

1 in 5 Americans are starving — and these Americans are sadly eating cheap and easy to obtain foods.

Foods are now being modified in order to provide sustainability to the poor and the middle class. Many of these foods lack nutrition and are simply “filler” foods whose nutritive standards are in question. This puts public health in danger.

It is also important to understand that poor Americans are actually eating fast food because of convenience and price. Many of these fast food choices contain GMO’s which are believed to be bad for health and well-being.

In an effort to somehow save resources, we are all being used in a huge genetic experiment and our DNA is responding to all of the so-called scientific food breakthroughs that have been developed to supposedly benefit us. However, if you look closer to what is really happening, you will find what we are eating is killing us.

We have all realized over time, there is an alleged agenda to keep the planet sustainable and we are told resources are diminishing and thus, the planet needs a way to rid itself of what is depleting its resources. The idea of sustainable development consists of a number of suggestions to improve environment. First in the agenda is to establish a group consensus of crises and solutions that include separating the people and eventually culling them.

One of fundamental ways to do this is to withhold food or control food stuffs. When a government offers food to a poor country, it is never neutral. It is never an unconditional act of charity. In most cases, food can only flow with the consent of the men with power. In poorer countries where the military rules outwardly, food is often controlled by the men with guns.

When a nation is starving or is deprived of nutritious food, we begin to see the health of a nation decline. We also begin to see and overall downfall of the critical mass and soon we begin to see people take on a whole new persona as instinctive primal attitudes become the norm. Where there is hunger there is desperation and so is the desire for the average person to do anything for sustenance.

It is at this point we can see that in the future, food can be used as a weapon through the use of government regulations, genetically modified foods and biological or bacterial contamination through lack maintenance and terrorism.

Not to mention artificial inflation, speculation and hoarding.

We should not be surprised in the future that with the poor economy, food will be used as a weapon and that sustenance will be an issue throughout the world.

The country’s health and its food safety is a matter of national security.

The question seldom asked is what happens when confidence in the food supply diminishes when we hear of recalls of foods containing E. coli bacteria, Salmonella or viral hepatitis?

A large California vegetable producer has expanded its recall of celery linked to a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria that has sickened 19 people in seven states. The celery was sold by Taylor Farms Pacific Inc. of Tracy, California, and was used as part of an onion and celery mix included in chicken salad at Costco stores. Now, the FDA has expanded the recall to a dozen retail chains in 16 states.

In addition to Costco’s chicken salad, the celery was used in sandwiches, wraps, vegetable trays, cornbread stuffing and other items sold at a variety of stores. Affected stores include 7-Eleven, King Soopers, Raley’s, Save Mart, Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Starbucks, Target, Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club.

Starbucks Holiday Turkey Panini was pulled because of the Celery scare. E. coli was found in sandwich at California, Oregon and Nevada locations.

Five people sickened in the E. coli outbreak have been hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two patients developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure. The specific type of bacteria in this outbreak, E. coli O157, is particularly dangerous, especially for children.

E. coli 0157 is more likely than other varieties of the bacteria to cause hemolytic uremic syndrome, which can leave survivors on dialysis.

One in 6 Americans — more than 48 million people — are sickened by the food they eat each year in the country, causing about 3,000 deaths and 125,000 hospitalizations and costing the economy $14.1 billion, according to the CDC.

The Starbucks recall comes shortly after Chipotle Mexican Grill was forced to temporarily close more than 40 locations in Oregon and Washington after at least 35 cases of illness from E. coli were linked to its restaurants.

The Chipotle Mexican Grill recall happened coincidentally after the company announced they would no longer use GMO’s in their food. McDonalds also announced that they would discontinue using GMO potatoes in their French fries. McDonald’s stock and profits have been in serious decline.

Immediately after the recalls of the food at Chipotle and now the celery, there have been many blogs thinking that this may be a result of what is called, “corporate espionage.” It is unfortunate most Americans are unaware of the food system and how it can easily be attacked by a greedy corporation wanting to send a message to another company that is a competitor or even an enemy to curtail their ability to do business.

Americans only know that most foods go from farm-to-table, but it would be better to say that from farm-to-table is purely a fable.

There is a complicated bureaucracy and lobbyists that determine branding strategies, business partnerships, acquisitions and mergers with agribusinesses, thus causing the consumer to never really know who makes and distributes our food and at times, what goes into making it.

This is evident in the celery scare. One company provided tainted celery that affected many products and many food businesses. Many of us have never heard of Taylor Farms – we just know 7-Eleven, and Wal-Mart. Many would never even associate a celery recall with Starbucks.

When trying to find the origins of these outbreaks, it is difficult to obtain the smoking gun.

That is why incidents like this are frightening as well as suspicious. It is highly coincidental that with all of the food contamination scares happening in the news, Monsanto CEO, Hugh Grant appeared on the morning addition of CBS News to promote the safety and efficiency of GMO foods.

He also commented about the recent FDA ruling that approves the sale of genetically modified salmon, and while he is not in the GMO salmon business, he did call Monsanto a company that cares about nutrition and agriculture.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association says up to 80 percent of processed food sold in the U.S. is genetically modified, and most of it is not labeled. Once again, giving us a reason to wonder about where and how our food is made and how this could lead to a national security risk.

According to an Associated Press poll, 66 percent of Americans support requiring food manufacturers to put labels on products containing GMOs. But Monsanto spent millions of dollars, lobbying against a GMO labeling ballot initiative in Colorado and Oregon.

Back in October, Good Food Concepts, a Colorado Springs, Colorado establishment, recalled approximately 12,566 pounds of beef, pork, and poultry products that were produced without a fully implemented Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points plan.

Oregon has been affected by the celery recall and the Chipotle recall as well.

Monsanto was embroiled in another controversy surrounding its popular herbicide, Roundup. Earlier this year, the International Agency for Research on Cancer said that its main ingredient, glyphosate, could cause cancer.

The Environmental Protection Agency has approved Roundup for use in America, but the majority of the studies the agency considered – 14 of the 23 studies cited in EPA’s report – was conveniently funded by Monsanto.

Grant also stressed that GMO foods played an important role in food security and climate change.

Any breach of food security and continued recall horrors provide opportunities for sponsored content interviews with companies like Monsanto. Recovery from a mass food recall or even a food terrorism event would take a long time and would be devastating to the economy.

In 1978, Palestinian terrorists injected mercury into Israeli oranges to destroy their economy.

In 1984, the Rajneesh bio terror attack made headlines when more than 750 people were poisoned with Salmonella in The Dalles, Oregon. A leading group of followers of Osho, then known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh had hoped to incapacitate the voting population of the city so that candidates who were members of the cult would win the 1984 Wasco County elections.

The incident was the first bio-terrorism attack in the United States, and the single largest bio-terrorist attack in United States history. The attack is one of only two confirmed terrorist uses of biological weapons to harm humans in the United States.

In a 2005 American study based on responses from 4,260 people interviewed by Stinson, Kinsey, Degeneffe and Ghosh, stated that 77 per cent of the respondents expect some form of food terrorism to take place within their lifetime.

Not all food is produced by the companies that initially developed or created it. Increasingly for economic reasons, the manufacturing role is being transferred to contractors. These food items are produced and consumed locally and in some cases also exported. It is possible to contaminate food stuffs and have the contaminants spread all over the world.

The industry should perhaps consider a path that will protect them against harm and financial loss. It is important not only to do something, but also to be seen doing it. It is also of great significance that companies like Monsanto have more transparency. This is why GMO labeling is very important.

Monsanto’s CEO claims that adoption of mandatory GMO labels results in “confusion” and “more expenses,” rather than transparency.

Knowing what we know about the agenda to cull us all, wouldn’t this final solution be the greatest secret – one that can be implemented with plausible deniability?

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