(2014/02/05) Don't eat shit and die (Food) (Repost)
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🗓️ 28 November 2014
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Summary
#796
Turns out there's a whole lot of stuff wrong with our food supply, including cows eating shit. Like they don't already have it bad enough.
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: 10,000 Sick in Salmonella Chicken Outbreak - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 10-10-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Salmonella - Shul days
Ch. 4: Act 2: Virulent Strain Of Soy Flu Traced To Single Tofurky - @TheOnion
Ch. 5: Song 2: Virus - Astronaut
Ch. 6: Act 3: In this season of feasting, let's celebrate agriCULTURE - @jimhightower - Air Date: 11-28-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Harvest Season - The Sun Shone Through the Trees
Ch. 8: Act 4: How Waste Isn't Just Throwing Things Away - @FoodWaste_TV - Air Date: 06-04-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Smithereen - Epic Indie New Wave
Ch. 10: Act 5: Cows Being Fed Chicken Poop, FDA Not Stopping It - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 12-28-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Risk It - Dark As Night
Ch. 12: Act 6: John Robbins: Why I went vegetarian - @vegsource - Air Date: 5-21-09
Ch. 13: Song 6: Everybody Ona Move - Yell Fire!
Ch. 14: Act 7: A curse, a blessing, and a good food movement - @jimhightower - Air Date: 12-5-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Good Food - Planet X
Ch. 16: Act 8: Transgenic foods have bought the population problem some time - @inquiringshow - Air Date: 9-27-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Take It to the Limit - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
Ch. 18: Act 9: National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: Activism - The Poet
Ch. 20: Act 10: Listener Argues Against GMO Food Labeling - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-24-14
Ch. 21: Song 10: Fake Plastic Trees - The Bends
Ch. 22: Act 11: Only Study Linking GMOs to Cancer Gets Retracted - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 12-03-13
Ch. 23: Song 11: Good Food - Making Paper Roses
Ch. 24: Act 12: The Incredible Response to Our "Real Reasons to be Afraid of GMOs" Interview - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-24-14
Voicemails
Ch. 25: Number one source of GHG is animal agriculture - Kate from Boston
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 26: Final comments on being contacted by a potential corporate shill
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
ACTIVISM:
Sources/further reading:
NSAC on Twitter and NSAC on Facebook
What Is Sustainable Agriculture?
"The New Farm Bill: Yet Again, Not Ready for Climate Change” and "Obama’s 5 Biggest Sellouts to the Meat Industry” by Tom Philpott
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:18.6 | Pakman Show, the onion radio news, Jim Hyte Tower, food waste TV, veg source, the |
| 0:24.3 | inquiring minds podcast and the majority report. |
| 0:29.3 | There are 10,000 estimated sick from a Salmonella chicken outbreak. This is the second time this |
| 0:36.3 | year, federal officials are warning the public about Salmonella infections, associated specifically |
| 0:43.3 | with foster farms chicken. In this latest outbreak, officials have confirmed about 280 cases |
| 0:50.3 | according to a public health alert and the previous breakout, which was in July, just a couple |
| 0:57.3 | of months ago, the CDC noted about 135 illnesses. Now they actually have a metric, which is they |
| 1:05.3 | assume that for every one reported case, 25 go unreported and based on that, if you take |
| 1:12.3 | 280 cases plus 135 multiply that by 25, they estimate that around 10,000 people have been |
| 1:20.3 | sickened in the last 12 months based on that multiplier. That's a lot of people to develop food |
| 1:27.3 | poisoning. After consuming a product that is well known to have been contaminated with Salmonella, |
| 1:33.3 | this was traced to raw chicken, the USDA alert and a foster farm statement both stress the importance |
| 1:41.3 | of safe food handling, saying food needs to be that chicken poultry needs to be cooked to an internal |
| 1:47.3 | temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit. However, when we actually look more deeply at this Dr. Katrina |
| 1:53.3 | Hedberg, who's an epidemiologist, said consumers are actually not to blame. This is not an outbreak |
| 1:59.3 | because people decided to eat their chicken too rare. This is simply because of too much bacteria. So Lewis, |
| 2:06.3 | again, this is interesting because we've been using the example recently of foodborne illness as |
| 2:13.3 | the culprit of far more deaths in most years for Americans than terrorism and the disproportionate |
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