on May 20th, 2009Food Companies Put Safety On The Consumer
Food Companies Try, but Can’t Guarantee Safety - NYTimes.com.
ConAgra — which sold more than 100 million pot pies last year under its popular Banquet label — decided to make the consumer responsible for the kill step. The “food safety” instructions and four-step diagram on the 69-cent pies offer this guidance: “Internal temperature needs to reach 165° F as measured by a food thermometer in several spots.”
Increasingly, the corporations that supply Americans with processed foods are unable to guarantee the safety of their ingredients. In this case, ConAgra could not pinpoint which of the more than 25 ingredients in its pies was carrying salmonella. Other companies do not even know who is supplying their ingredients, let alone if those suppliers are screening the items for microbes and other potential dangers, interviews and documents show.
This article is hilariously full of all the foibles of our modern food chain, but I think it can best be summed up like this:
If you’re buying a pot pie for .69 cents be prepared for literally anything, up to and including a bug-eyed monster crawling out of your ass and choking you to death.
As a personal rule I never buy anything priced the same as a sexual position. I’m just saying.