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Originally Posted by emeadow 
An example of my exposure, I have fed raw food to my cats for almost 7 years now, which I prepare everything in my kitchen on my granite counters (which are supposed to harbor bacteria from recent comments I have seen). This means at least twice a day I am handling various raw meats, cutting them up, serving them on plates, using a scale, kitchen shears, ect.
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I do the same for my pets as well. At first I was super, super-careful about cleaning the counters, but after years of doing this I have an extremely lackadaisical attitude towards bacteria.
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I wonder what was the normal diet and health status of those folks who do get infected with salmonella or E colli? Would be curious if there are more trends behind those stats then just '13,000 infected annually'. You start to wonder if the food 'alerts' are similar to the swine flu....just a hot button someone hits in the media to drive up sales on something else.....especially those clean and 'safe' looking prepackaged products.  |
You can bet those figures aren't telling the whole truth. The FDA continually blames raw milk for problems that later turn out to be not the cause (see Sally Fallon's Raw Milk
powerpoint presentation on this, starting at page 23).