Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Reading Journal 1

The Vegetable-Industrial Complex


This article was about E Coli and the differences between getting your vegetables at an industrialized farm versus your local farm. No matter where you get your food there is always the possibility of bacteria. Nothing is as clean as it should be, cross contamination can be really bad and that’s what happens when food is prepared together. Like the article said “The plant in question washes 26 million servings of salad every week. In effect, we’re washing the whole nation’s salad in one big sink.” Because of this if you were to have one thing of spinach and it had E Coli on it by washing it with more it is being spread through everything so it is very easy to spread bacteria in farms. There is an estimated five thousand deaths a year due to the food supply. All this shows you can’t always believe because you’re buying your food in a market it’s safe. I don’t think that different types of food should be processed in the same factories it could save a lot of people if everything was done separately and to the safest precautions.

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