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Fast Food Nation Chapter: 9- What’s In The Meat

Fast Food Nation Chapter: 9- What’s In The Meat. Casey Fulkerson. Things you need to know:.

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Fast Food Nation Chapter: 9- What’s In The Meat

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  1. Fast Food NationChapter: 9- What’s In The Meat Casey Fulkerson

  2. Things you need to know: • The US government can demand recall of defective baseball/softball bats, shoes, stuffed animals, even foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, or potentially lethal ground beef from restaurants and supermarkets.

  3. Things you need to know: • Every day in the US, an estimated 200,000 people are plagued with food borne diseases. Approximately 900 are hospitalized, and about fourteen die. • Many food borne pathogens can lead to long-terms complications such as: • Heart disease • Inflammatory bowel disease • Neurological problems • Autoimmune disorders • Kidney damage

  4. Things you need to know cont. • The rise of food borne illnesses can be attributed to changes in how food is produced. The change in the nation’s industrialized and centralized system of food processing.

  5. E. Coli O157:H7 • First brought to attention in 1982 • The rise in larger feedlots for cattle, slaughterhouses, and hamburger grinders seems to have been the factor in the spread of the pathogen. • American meat production has become more centralized: • Thirteen big meat packinghouses now slaughter most beef that the US consumes. • Most E. coli bacteria helps to digest food, synthesize vitamins, and to guard against dangerous organisms. But in the specific case of E. coli O157:H7 people don’t usually become ill. Others suffer mild diarrhea, but in some cases, abdominal cramps are followed by watery, then bloody, diarrhea, that is gone within a week or so.

  6. But, just because E. coli O157:H7 doesn’t make you ill, that doesn’t keep other toxins out. • In about 4 percent of reported E. coli O157:H7 cases, the Shiga toxins enter the bloodstream, this causes diseases like: • Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) • This diseases can cause kidney failure, anemia, internal bleeding, and the failure of vital organs.

  7. Over the past twenty years scientists have found more than a dozen other food borne pathogens: • Campylobacter jejuni • Cryptosporidium parvum • Cyclospora cayetanensis • Listeria monocytogenes • Norwalk-like viruses • These pathogens are usually carried by healthy animals. Food tainted by these organisms have most likely been in contact with a pathogen-infected animal’s stomach contents or manure during slaughter processing.

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