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Editorial: Large number of food inspectors is irrelevant if they’re lax in their duties

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Editorial+Large+number+food+inspectors+irrelevant+they+their+duties/8495841/story.html#ixzz2Vd11JwqJ

…”There’s also a new push to begin irradiating beef to kill E. coli, but that comes with its own caveats. Irradiation, while a valuable ally in the fight against food poisoning, can create a new set of problems, including complacency among food handlers anywhere along the line, from field to consumers’ kitchen tables. It can foster a dangerous assumption that the food is free of bacteria, leading to carelessness and cutting corners in food production, handling and inspection. Irradiation should be one more line of defence, and while it kills bacteria at the moment the food is irradiated, the food can be contaminated again later through careless processing, packaging and handling procedures.”…

Irradiation uses ‘HEAT’ as the principle weapon on the containment of excessive bacteria. While it may depending on the doseage of radiation applied, the question remains is how much is an effective amount to do the job.

But here is the kicker – the CRITICAL ELEMENT AND QUESTION that is implied in the use of RADIATION to food.

Here is the perfect example that you could not get under any other circumstance. Perfect case study.

XL Foods was a great Canadian supplier of beef across our vast landscape. So much so that it could also offer to export to the United States and elsewhere globally.

NOW SOLD TO a Brazilian company ??? Whoa hold on here – back up for a second. We take accountability for mistakes by selling to foreign companies and how do we can we be sure to pursue legal avenues of responsibility in other legal jurisdictions where laws maybe entirely different. If person X in country Y makes a serious error in judgement, and does so entirely for profit motive and not safety – how do we get that resolved.

Now hold on here – here is the backdoor to all of this ! The SOCIAL ENGINEERING element. I can see how this all unfolds eventually. Great IRRADIATION works PERFECTLY. 100 PERCENT. Fantastic – let’s put more meat and food on the production line and ramp up profit 1000 percent.

Now instead of 1 MILLION TONS of beef in this case going through the conveyor belts, it’s 2 MILLION. Oops, another mistake, more food poisoning and now we have double the number of people who either die or get seriously sick.

This is a sliding model of doing all the wrong things going the wrong way down the wrong road. It’s a disaster lying in wait.

My kids, your kids and everyone else’s who will pay a price.

Irradiation is the wrong thing to do. Too much power in the hands of a few companies who will put production quotas in place for the sake of justifying supply and demand.

Think it through. It’s not the bacteria and safety. It’s the bottom line.

Congrats Calgary Herald – at least you are pointing out the need for the debate on the moral question. I prefer the human sense of doubt and erring on the side of caution. The old saying if it doesn’t pass the smell test…

Afterall – we’re talking about a South American company just about taking over the whole NORTH AMERICAN beef market ??? The money trail couldn’t have a more definite odor to it !