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Thom's blog
How About Some Chemical Waste With Your Fish?
You might want to think twice about the food that you’re eating.
Now, those numbers might be slightly more understandable if America was a third-world country, but it’s not. Yet somehow, the food industry and our government are still letting millions and millions of Americans get sick each and every year from completely preventable food-borne illnesses.
The fact is that our food safety system is completely out-of-whack.
For example, America imports 3 billion pounds of meat each year. Of that 3 billion pounds, 85 million pounds is catfish that’s imported annually from Vietnam. That Vietnamese catfish mostly comes from the Mekong River. And, according to the Economy in Crisis blog, each year, 220,000 tons of industrial waste is dumped into the Mekong River.
That means that before the catfish are exported here, they’re swimming - and bottomfeeding, which is what catfish do - in a river filled with toxic chemicals. Yum.
The Vietnamese catfish story is just one example of how broken food safety is in America today. A major reason for that is an incredible lack of federal funding - also known as Republican austerity.
As the Economy in Crisis blog points out, the FDA has nowhere near the money it needs to keep Americans safe from tainted food. In fact, the FDA only has the funding to inspect around 1 to 2 percent of all food that’s imported to the U.S. So 98-99% of all food imported into the U.S is getting into our markets without any screening for possible foodborne viruses and diseases.
-Thom
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Daily Take: How About Some Chemical Waste With Your Fish?
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