Gatay humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas and Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year, happy holidays.

It is a time of year when we stuff our faces with food and sometimes that can have undesirable

consequences. In particular, some uncomfortable conversations around, I don't know, gas, funny smelling

urine, tiredness after big meals, whether or not we're going to make everybody sick.

By the way, we're cooking things at the barbecue if you're in Australia or indoors

if you're in the Northern Hemisphere.

So at this time of year, one of my favorite guests from my old ABC radio show always comes and joins us to enlighten us, amuse us, entertain us, inform us about all things related to food, food preparation, cuisine, health, microbiology. I don't know if it sounds fascinating selling it that way, but Gary Kennedy

is an absolute riot. He is one of the most prominent and well-informed and senior food safety

advisors in Australia. He gets hired by the big supermarket chains, by governments in Australia and all

around the Asia Pacific,

to tell them how do they have to do things, how they have to set things up, how hot do things have to be, how cold do things have to be, you know, in the food preparation industry, what are

the regulations that governments should impose?

So he's always flying around Asia, visiting new food production plants and agricultural factories and stuff like that.

And he's a food scientist, so he understands the microbiology of it, what exactly the bacteria

are that can make you sick, how they make you sick, how they change your intestinal, everything,

everything.

You may not want to listen to this while you're literally eating food, because we do go into some uncomfortable scatological places.

But I thought this would be a nice reprieve from the seriousness of recent weeks.

So I hope you enjoy as much as I did, the one, the only, Gary Kennedy.

Australia is quite different to the rest of the world.

Most of the world, you can't just randomly add vitamins and minerals amino acid to food.

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