Thread: deadly e. coli

People, remember Avian Flu, Swine Flu, etc. These particular kinds of flu were known before. People have been dying from fly every year in every country. This virus can be deadly. But, when someone is paying for a media campaign, the hysteria starts. I'm pretty sure, that people had been dying from some kind of germ before as well. Maybe even from this particular one. That's statistics. But nobody cared since nobody was told to be actually afraid.
We are afraid of only the things we are told to be afraid of by the media. That's insane. This world has gone crazy. All this hysteria is the same thing. Someone's simply trying to get rich by making poor someone else.

Wash your hands often, wash vegetables and fruits before eating, do not drink tap water - those are just the normal rules of hygiene that will never harm.

What concerns the import restrictions imposed by Russia - they're non efficient anyway - remember we have a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan. Nevertheless, we are not a member of WTO, so our willingness to support the WTO requirements is just an act of good will.
Personally, I think that Russia would lose more than it would gain if it joins the WTO so why should we care at all about poor European farmers?

Once I went to my local grocery store to buy bread, and found several of the packages of bread had dead bugs in them. I hadn't noticed til I'd bought mine and gotten outside. When I did notice, I went right back in and asked to trade it in for another. I saw that the entire line of that company's product was full of these dead bugs, so I reported it to the store manager and asked him to remove the other ones, so others didn't buy them. He said, "No - but I'll take care of it." I left. Went back the next day. Bugs still in the bread. I complained and complained and eventually talked to the chain manager, but it took a lot of effort just to get ANYBODY to care.
Another time, when I was a kid, I worked at a movie theatre, and the pump broke that moved clean water into the soda fountain. The fountain started to dispense metal shavings into the drinks; the Sprite was dark and grey. It was a Friday (big-business day). And our boss said: "Serve the colas and the dark drinks, but don't serve the Sprite." (Thankfully I wasn't posted at the fountain because I would have had a moral dilemma being the guy to sell those.)
It shocks me the things that are done to people in food service that go unreported. And by contrast, the little things that become a big deal.
I still feel kind of stupid for throwing out my spinach sandwich the day I heard about all this vegetable business. That poor sandwich didn't deserve its fate. =)

Originally Posted by kidkboom

It shocks me the things that are done to people in food service that go unreported. And by contrast, the little things that become a big deal.

Yes, but that is how it's done. It's nothing new. My poor daughter had to read The Jungle this past semester. If she weren't a germaphobe already, the book made her one!