DailyDirt: Is It Safe To Eat That?
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
The global food supply chain is significantly more complicated than it was a few generations ago. Some of it is due to technological progress, but sometimes it's due to greed and/or pollution. Eliminating waste and making food processes as efficient as possible sounds like a admirable goal, but the food products created at the end of the day should be appetizing... and, more importantly, safe to eat. If you're not too squeamish, check out these links on food that might churn your stomach.- Fermented sausages (aka fuet) can be delicious, but what if the bacteria used to make them came from baby poop? Spanish scientists collected some diapers and isolated some Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium samples from the fecal matter, and then they made some yummy (and healthier!?) sausages with the microbes. [url]
- Gutter oil is created from animal fats and cooking oil waste (collected from sewer drains), and the resulting recycled cooking oil -- along with toxins and carcinogens -- can end up in small restaurants and food trucks in China. The gutter oil industry has reportedly existed for over a decade, and there are estimates that as much as 10% of the cooking oil sold in China is gutter oil. [url]
- French beekeepers were wondering why their honey was a strange blue-green color that looked really unnatural. The likely culprit for the blue-green honey was processing waste that came from an M&M chocolate factory producing bright red, blue, green, yellow and brown candy shells. The resulting honey didn't taste much different, but it wasn't a product that could be sold. [url]
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Next step is sausage flavor yogurt.
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I'll bite... because you're really a dog and like to chase your own tail?
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walmart
YOU ATE ASS LATELY????
Donkey for you!!!
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Depends On The Gut Bugs
Without these bugs, you would feel very ill indeed. Unfortunately, like any bacteria, they can be killed off by antibiotics. And when they are gone, your gut becomes easy territory for other, less desirable, disease-causing bugs, to gain a foothold. This is a common side effect of antibiotic treatment.
Researchers are now considering these gut bacteria as effectively being like an organ of your body, just as much essential to your well-being as any other organ. That�s why they also talk about �faecal transplants�, where somebody who has lost their usual gut bugs can get a replacement transfusion from a healthy donor.
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Probably not, but then you need to eat something - right?
The need for informative, correct and legible ingredient labeling is required if one wants to make choices in their diet.
Arguments about whether some particular chemical or process is "ok" can go on forever with little to no benefit for anyone except those selling the (undisclosed) item in question. If these corporations ... errr I mean people, really believe in the free market mantra they continuously spew then they would be upfront with the labeling and let the consumers decide what they want to ingest. But apparently the term "free market" means (to them) they are free to market lies and fraud upon the unsuspecting public.
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Whadda Ya Mean You Can't Sell Blue Honey?!?!
"Limited edition blue honey!"
"Get it while it lasts before it's all gone!"
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