Michael Murry » Food http://blog.michaelmurry.org Michael Murry's Weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:06:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Egg recall exposes unsafe US food supply http://blog.michaelmurry.org/2010/08/26/egg-recall-exposes-unsafe-us-food-supply/ http://blog.michaelmurry.org/2010/08/26/egg-recall-exposes-unsafe-us-food-supply/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:19:48 +0000 Mike http://blog.michaelmurry.org/?p=88 The egg recall is only the latest in a long list of health, labor and environmental violations, as well as numerous charges of animal cruelty.

The recalls underscore the vulnerability of the population to the most preventable illnesses because of the subordination of public health and food safety to the profit motive. Corporations have been allowed to engage in blatantly unsafe practices, with nominal fines, while the government has rejected even the most basic steps required to improve food safety.

]]> http://blog.michaelmurry.org/2010/08/26/egg-recall-exposes-unsafe-us-food-supply/feed/ 0