FOOD INC.
~ recalled meat, spinach, peanut butter
~ 13 slaughterhouses
~ USDA Meeting -- food safety, mom meets with lady
~ July 2001 family vacation -- Kevin 2 1/2 year old -- ate 3 hamburgers -- blood in stool -- hemorrhagic e. coli -- kidneys fail -- dialysis -- only drink water from sponges -- passed in 12 days august 27, 16 days after Kevin died the meat was recalled
~ repeatedly positive for escherichia coli -- USDA didn't have authority to shut down plants -- you can have a pound of meat w ecoli
~ Kevin's Law -- give back power to USDA to shut down plants -- working for 6 years, but still hasn't passed
~ efficiency leads to problems, feed cattle grass for 7 days they will shed the e. coli from their system
~ put ammonia in meat to kill e. coli
~ bad food is cheap, 2 hamburgers for the price of a vegetable
~ obesity
~ genetically modified crops
~ no public seeds anymore