Outbreaks Reveal Food Safety Net’s Holes

Several factors have contributed to the rise in outbreaks: greater consumption of fresh produce, especially cut fruits and vegetables; wider distribution; improved electronic reporting of outbreaks; and an aging population more susceptible to food-borne illness. Produce presents a special food safety challenge because, unlike meat, which can be rid of bacteria through proper cooking, it is meant to be consumed raw. There is no “kill step,” as food safety experts put it.

Numero uno, let this be a lesson to you rabbit-food fanatics. Maybe all that boiling and sauteeing and frying your granny did had a practical purpose.

Numero dos, how about everyone just accept the fact that Uncle Sugar can not possibly protect you from every microbe? We used to know this, it was plain as the nose on your face. So our grannies boiled, sauteed, and fried all that stuff they fed us. Fried it in trans-fatty Crisco, too, most likely, since it kept on the shelf.

By the way, when is the population ever not aging? Is there some parallel universe where they’ve shut that part of physics down? If so, how do I get a passport back to 1978? I think it’d be easier to ditch the Marlboros. I had better hair, too.

More from the Commie virus front:

Beijing authorities on Monday defended their campaign to confiscate unregistered and oversized dogs,

“oversized” being bigger than 14 inches — not much more than a Pekingnese (nyuk nyuk.) The ChiComs also limit their shiny, happy subjects to one hound per household.

Don’t tell me the world isn’t going berserk, boyo. From gas fields to man’s best friends…the never-ending megalomaniacal control freaks never cease to amaze me. And the shiny happies that fall right into line are exasperating at best, and the most dangerous thing on earth at worst.

The Russian bear siezes control of it’s gas fields:

Foreign energy companies will be welcome in future as subcontractors but not as owners in Russia’s energy industry, the Kremlin signalled yesterday as Gazprom moved closer towards wresting control of Sakhalin-2, the giant Siberian gas project, from Royal Dutch Shell.

The Russian gas giant confirmed that Shell had made a new proposal in negotiations over Gazprom’s participation in Sakhalin Energy, the company building a $20 billion (£10.2 billion) liquefied natural gas scheme in Eastern Siberia.

The project has been beset by claims and threats of prosecution from Rosprirodnadzor, the Russian environmental control agency, a campaign that is seen by Moscow energy analysts as calculated to weaken Shell’s negotiating position.

That’s fairly ugly, in my view. Who would ever go in as a sub? I predict fairly extensive failure for the Russians in this effort, except the Iranians will probably be happy to take whatever rubles (or Soviet missiles?) that they can get. Keep your BS detectors tuned to that, kiddies. It could explain a few things, or maybe I should say, explain them more fully.

And it just goes to show you how strong the Commie virus is. Seventeen years on, almost a generation, and we have the functional equivalent of nationalization, except this time thru the Politically Correct state agency, an environmental control group. Jeez, but it’s a tough old world. Maybe this democracy & capitalism thing really is too damn hard for most.

Diana was bugged by secret service in U.S.

I sure miss the days when the Preznit could have his security detail do some eavesdropping on hawt English royalty, and we could safely avoid eavesdropping on Islamic death cults bent on restoring some vision of the Caliphate from 1500 years ago.

So, why would the Secret Service be doing the spying and not the, erm, international spy agency we fund so lavishly for international spying?

Have I ever mentioned how much I detest my government some times?

Can I get some more dumbshit Texan jokes over here? We had lots back before the election that put these dorks in the driver’s seat.

“Why do you ask me these questions at five o’clock? Can I answer in Spanish? Do you speak Spanish?”

That’s Silvestre Reyes playing the dumbshit reverse-racist Texan card when queried about the religous persuasion of Hezbollah. And that’s after whiffing on the religous persuasion of Al Qaeda (or however they spell it these days.)

For whatever it could be worth, Silvestre Reyes is going to be the congress-numbnuts in charge of the House Intelligence Committee. Not like it’s going to be making a humoungous step down in the IQ of our elected idiots who are theoretically in charge of protecting our shores (we do pay these leeches, and they do say that’s what they’re there for, so I tend to expect it out of them):

That’s more than two key Republicans on the Intelligence Committee knew when I interviewed them last summer. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., and Terry Everett, R-Ala., both back for another term, were flummoxed by such basic questions, as were several top counterterrorism officials at the FBI.

Listen, it’s going to be up to me and you to get the Bare Minimum USA (Declaration, Constitution, BoR) through this whole thing with the Musselmen. These duly-elected morons are useless and pointless. Buy guns, buy ammo, learn how to use them. Because these fookers ain’t the Vietnamese, however much a bunch of pussy baby-boomers want them to be. They’re headed this way, and you may perhaps recall that they’ve already done been here once already.

Via RWNH…with whom I must quibble, perhaps needlessly — “our government” is us…that “by, for and of”. We have no one to blame for this state of affairs but you and me. I can guarantee you that I could ask the next 20 people and get a similarly ignorant answer, and 10 of them would throw in some specious, racist bullshit about speaking Spanish.