Posted on 08/21/2010 5:45:39 AM PDT by driftdiver
A second Iowa egg farm is recalling eggs as part of an investigation into a U.S. salmonella outbreak that is linked to almost 300 illnesses across the country, federal regulators said on Friday.
Hillandale Farms of Iowa Inc is voluntarily recalling shell eggs potentially contaminated with salmonella in an expanding national egg recall that is among the largest in recent years, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
.... The sweeping egg recalls come just weeks after a new FDA rule took effect on July 9 requiring large-scale producers to practice better safety and to test in the poultry house for salmonella bacteria.
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They will find the new regulations go too far and will quietly eliminate them.
It doesn't completely solve the problem even if there is a way to stop the outbreaks at the farms. You still have the issue of antibiotics fed to animals at factory farms. Then you have the ridiculous situation of a product as prone to contamination as are eggs being shipped as far as Alaska, and everywhere in between.
The only way this is going to stop is to go back to smaller farms which use less chemicals, additives, preservatives, and antibiotics. Besides that, if the food isn't close to market there is a myriad of opportunity for contamination or spoilage in transit.
I doubt we have any clue of how bad the situation is with the contaminants in our food supply. I'm actually surprised the feds even tell us anymore when there's an outbreak caused by bad food.
The Feds are encouraging people to eat poisoned seafood from the Gulf to “help the economy.” So, you never know.
What? if these animals in question were on antibiotics then there would be no problem. The issues is most likely rodents.
The trend is to push food production into bigger corporations and offshore. You can’t sell a chicken or its eggs unless the animal is registered with the govt.
“They will find the new regulations go too far and will quietly eliminate them.”
Really? When has the govt voluntarily reduced regulation?
Also flies and roaches.
Yeah this is the first time in history a chicken had salmonella.
Using history as a gauge we know what BO’s agenda is with the food supply. It isn’t gonna end well.
I was making a list of all that's wrong with our food. I try to stick to a "pure foods" regimen. Part of it is knowing and trusting the source of my food, and knowing what its ingredients are.
It's very, very hard to do. For starters, so many "fresh foods" aren't fresh anymore; they're loaded with preservatives. I've distrusted eggs unless they're from a trustworthy farm for quite some time. Same thing with dairy. And I keep meat to a minimum, from the best possible sources. Bread is a nightmare, to find something without all kinds of extra junk in it.
It's getting more complicated all of the time, but it seems to help my immune system.
Poultry producers are now using a bleach rinse to ‘clean’ chickens before they leave the factory.
There are many food coops around the country which make buying natural foods easier. Of course the govt is cracking down on them.
Its ok to import watermelons from South America but not from your neighbor.
Seems a lot like PETA is controlling this. Too coincidental that the targets of these investigations are people who’ve been criticized by the animal rights wackos.
They won’t be happy until we are all eating little green crackers.
Saw a doctor talking about why there are problems on Foxnews. She seemed unsure herself. It makes little sense to me. I suppose that the most logical explanation would be the way the eggs are handled or stored, but eggs have a very long shelf life, and I suspect that this is more a hysteria than anything else.
Never, but they often conveniently ignore them when it benefits them.
My grandfather had an egg route. Grandma & the kids took care of the chickens and gather up eggs all week & every Saturday morning, Grandpa would hitch the horse to his wagon and deliver the eggs to his customers.
I can remember when I was very small (circa 1960) that we had Sophie the egg lady come to the house and bring us eggs every week. Funny, how you can remember things like that. I remember her and my grandmother (the other one) gabbing for what seemed like hours. :-)
Well, eggs are bad for you anyway, so Big Zero wants to protect you.
When I was a kid, we spent summers in a rural area. We used to go watch them ‘candle’ the eggs at the egg farm. (Or whatever it was called). I thot it was so interesting.
And when you put that together with fat Algore claiming this is the hottest decade in history, the conclusion is obvious.
/sarc
Eggs are packaged under the following brand names: Albertsons, Farm Fresh, James Farms, Glenview, Mountain Dairy, Ralphs, Boomsma, Lund, Kemps and Pacific Coast. Eggs are packed in varying sizes of cartons (6-egg cartons, dozen egg cartons, 18-egg cartons, and loose eggs for institutional use and repackaging) with Julian dates ranging from 136 to 229 and plant numbers 1720 and 1942. Dates and codes can be found stamped on the end of the egg carton.Sources:
a. DLAR 4155.26/AR 40-660/NAVSUPINST 10110.8c/AFI 48-116/MCO 10110.38c, DOD Hazardous Food & Nonprescription Drug Recall System.b. Allied Communications Publication 121, US SUPP-1 (f).
There is no cure for sheer stupidity, and it has been no secret for many many years that raw eggs can and do carry salmonella. Eating raw eggs that you have no idea what path they followed from the hen to your grocery store is a sure fire way to get a good dose of salmonella poisoning.
I raise hens for their eggs, and we don’t have a problem because we keep a clean coop. I’ve got four private nest boxes with lots of clean hay and I check them daily and freshen them as needed. Keeping things clean and exercising your own bio-security is pretty easy, and the rewards are generous...so far this month my 6 girls have produced 93 eggs...
Chickens in the back yard are as American as you can get. Raising your own henfruit and feeding the rest of what comes out of them to your compost pile is a great way to build a very sustainable source of much of your own food. You don’t need 50 acres and a mule to have lots of fresh veggies and all the eggs you can eat; and much of it a lot safer than what you can buy at the local SuperDuperMarket...
Isn’t this one of the Seven Seals. “And behold 1/12th of the eggs a hen lays cannot be eaten without painful diarrhea and stomach cramps.”
I am, and will continue to eat “poisoned” gulf seafood. Still better than farm raised from Thailand or wherever the hell it comes from.
The reports I’ve heard is that these egg embryos are contaminated with that particular strain of bacteria not the shell.
Chickens have been given anti-biotics as far back as 1944. When I raised them, putting a tablet of I believe it was a variant of auriomycin per gallon of drinking water. So that begs the question what’s happening here and why are these egg embryos being contaminated ?
By the way, if I’m not mistaken these eggs can be used in baking because the heat required to bake is usually at 350-400 F for usually a half an hour which would destroy that bacteria. . A hard boild egg at 4 mins will also kill that bacteria but the egg gets like rubber.But of course you don’t hear that from MSM. Its another “mad cow” scenario.
I’m afraid that what is going to happen is that the government is going to step in over-react like it does for global warming and EPA regulations and demand all eggs be pastuerized shutting down most small producers.
I know. They have come after me.
If they were smart, they would use Obama’s decision to spray the people and waters of the gulf (food supply) with Corexit as an anti-human life issue. They would be raising cain about the USDA’s refusal to test the sea food for heavy metals and corexit poisoning before pushing it on the public. The water melons have no problem with reducing the human population - espeically with their red state political and social enemies.
If Republicans went after Obama for spraying the Gulf with Corexit, they would take the environmental/energy policy power from the Democrats - the water melons. Alas, Republicans have earned the title of the stupid party. Democrats will get away with poisoning people and blaming it on the oil industry rather than Obama who made the decision to do it even knowing it was poison for human and wild life.
When I had the farm, we had lots of bantum hens. It took a dozen eggs for breakfast for two...but still had eggs to spare, our dog loved raw eggs and I would throw them on the ground to break the shell when I came out of the henhouse with too many....she’d slurp them up real quick...
Yep! There’s nothing our pug Gus likes better in the morning than when my wife fixes him a fresh egg. She spoils him rotten with scrambled eggs on Sunday morning, but he would be just as happy if she made him a Momelet every day...
As of this morning, the egg count for August stands at 101, and the daily lay is underway...
Just tell me one thing.
Are the target companies “union shops”?
“Are the target companies “union shops”?”
Interesting question, they are certainly corporate farms. I doubt it as I don’t think the farms are union in IA.
I also found out that the hens love eggs also...if the shell is broken...I’d drop an egg on the coop floor and the banty’s would fight over them. They would eat the broken shell also....my guinea hens loved baby mice...they would fight over them also....sometimes I’d find a nest in one of the barns and feed the babies to the guinea’s....(I was a rather cold blooded person when it came to vermin on the farm).....:O) or :O( depending on your frame of mind..
>>>>“Are the target companies “union shops”?”
>>>Interesting question, they are certainly corporate farms. I doubt it as I don’t think the farms are union in IA.
No unions... Many, if not most of the workers in the egg industry speak English as a second language, and I’m guessing at least some of them voted ‘Rat in the last election... just sayin’.
If you’re raising chickens, you have to almost hate vermin, otherwise all of a sudden you have a mouse infestation on your hands, or even worse, rats. I’ve been buying a pair of throwaway plastic traps that are easy to bait with peanut butter, and I protect all of our dry stores and animal rations with them. Just caught a big mouse yesterday, and since that’t the third one in that trap, it’s a bit grim cleaning it, so time to toss it and buy a new one...
And it isn’t just guinea hens that like mice...a good friend of ours was out cleaning his shed that abuts his chicken run, and he scared up a field mouse that had the poor judgment to attempt a high speed pass through the Rhode Island Red flock. My friend said all he saw was a bunch of red tail feathers sticking up in the air, and all of them pecking madly. When they were done, so was the mouse...not even a bone.
Someone abandoned a guinea hen in our neighborhood earlier this year, and it made the most awful strangling honking noise I have ever heard. Whomever it was raised it to the point where it started calling, and they promptly dumped it in the Park. It ended up in my front yard, so I trapped it, and located a local lady who raises guineas, and she claimed it. Big bird, and big poop...especially when it roosts for the afternoon on your porch rail and craps 8 or 9 times on the porch...
My husband went out to check the barns one afternoon and a wild turkey had flown into the fenced area where we had a tom and 3 Royal palm hens....those tom's were in a bloody fight and hubby was not a fowl friend....he came and got me handed me the leather gloves and said "go get um Judy"..Ended up with the wild one in the second room of the chicken coop and I gave him a hen...had him for several years but his offspring were sure interesting in the feather color department..
His beard touched the ground. But I found out that when they mate, the hens liked to pick at the beard...he ended up with just stubbs after a while...
Live is sure interesting on a farm....
As a side note, sometimes a turkey hen will also have a beard...
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