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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-07-26 03:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2762 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2762 ⌋

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Re: Visceral reactions

(Anonymous) 2014-07-26 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I have never in my life been so glad of being a vegetarian than after I read The Jungle.

Re: Visceral reactions

(Anonymous) 2014-07-27 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
I hate to break this to you, but there's plenty of scary, yucky stuff involved in the harvest/packing of just about ALL food. Take vegetables, frex. Most of the vegetables grown in the U.S. are harvested by undocumented workers who are paid an insultingly low wage. Some of them are children. Rarely do the companies who hire them provide adequate food, water or bathroom facilities while they're on the job. So if at some point during their long work day they need to have a piss or take a dump, where do you think they do it? That's why companies advise you to wash your vegetables really well. It's also why there are deadly e.coli outbreaks linked to vegetables. Like this one:

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/01/contaminated-lettuce-came-from-lgma-grower/

Oh, and canned veggies? Everything that gets canned in a factory is exposed to a certain amount of insect matter and rodent droppings, no exceptions. There are laws regulating how much of that stuff can be in your food. The maximum amount allowed by law is not zero.

There are rampant issues in dairy and egg production and packaging as well, but I think you get the point now. By all means be glad you escape the dodgy practices of the meatpacking industry, but I'm not sure how relieved you ought to feel given how inevitable contamination is.