[Kenton]

“Is there a dirty bird on your dinner plate,” wondered CBS anchor Katie Couric

No dear, you're on our TV. Well, somebody's TV anyway, not mine.

I'd drop my chicken on the floor and ignore the "ten-second rule" before I'd turn to CBS.

[traderrob6]

Like your mother told you thoroughly rinse the chicken and cook it properly and you have no worries.

[Kenton]

Katie's scientific accumen reminds me of the time someone asked WC Fields (who was known as a heavy boozer) if he ever drank water.

He responded "No, my dear, fish f@ck in it".

[undeniable logic]

The director of the Consumer Union’s Eco-Labeling Project added that “each hamburger sucks up a half-gallon of gasoline”

I'm trying to think through the economics of this. Unless she is talking about 10+ pound hamburgers, I'm going to have to call BS on this one.

[bondjamesbond]

Weise also noted that the Consumer Reports numbers are wildly different from previous studies conducted by the government. For example, “A 2005 study by the USDA and National Chicken Council found only 26% of 4,200 broiler carcasses tested were infected.”

There may be a punctuation error here. If it is 26 out of 4200 tested, that would be 0.6%, which is a fairly high number, but not a disaster. If it is 26% of 4200 birds, that's 1092 sick birds, and a huge problem.

[DBrow]

Who was it that was big on "food safety"...Oh yeah, it was Hillary Clinton!

[FormerACLUmember]

[steve-b]

Balance Is Low on CBS Pecking Order

A dozen posts under this title and no mention of Dan Rather? You're slipping, folks....

[CottShop]

I like to eat hal cooked chicken wrapped in raw spinach from California.

[freespirited]

While Alfonsi did concede that the bacteria is killed when chicken is cooked properly

So then the relevant information would be how often chicken is not cooked properly (and I guess, eaten raw). But that info is not provided. Why is that?

No mystery. That would be the consumer's mistake, and these people are only interested in issues that they can pin on Big Bad Business.

[MadIvan]

It's a "what about the kittens" ping, dear.

Love, Ivan