Do NOT EAT PORK!!! Irish Pork got contaminated!!
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
United States
December 7, 2008 5:42am CST
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28088687/
Ireland has issued an international warning for people not to consume Irish-produced pork products because they could contain dangerous levels of contaminants.
The government's departments of health and agriculture on Saturday jointly called for the recall or destruction of all Irish pork produced since Sept. 1 after discovering potentially dangerous dioxins in pigs and pig feed at 80 to 200 times the safety limit.
how does this keep happening? who keeps dropping the ball to where everything is always getting recalled?!?!! i dont remember anything getting recalled years ago!!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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13 Dec 08
Just Irish pork, not all pork! The reason why stuff wasn't recalled years ago was for two reasons. Firstly there wasn't too much by way of additives and secondly, those that were in the food chain hadn't yet been evaluated for their toxicity. Now it all is of course. Only eat organic pork and you should be all right. Poorer of course, so eat less of it, but pay more for it.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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14 Dec 08
Yu are right, I do have greater confidence. Over here the organic standard is managed by a non Government agency called the Soil Association. That said, they are not perfect. I blow hot and cold about organic frankly. I have a friend that raises sheep in Ontario and she isn't a fan at all, preferring good animal husbandry on "organically" manured fields. I buy all my eggs from the farm gate over which I can see the 100 of so hens that produce them pottering about the meadow. Cheaper and better than the stuff in the supermarkets. Personally I think that food is too cheap. We should pay more to guarantee good standards of welfare instead of the over processed mush that is commonly on offer.
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Dec 08
im not a huge pork eater.. we have a few recipes that are our favorites that require pork but its not something we just regularly pick up and make
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
7 Dec 08
They are recalling all the way back to September 1. That is a long way back and is probably already consumed I would think. There probably are not enough meat inspectors in Ireland any more than we do here in the United States. I don't eat pork any because it can have Trichinella. Trichinosis is a parasitic infection caused by eating food contaminated with the larvae (a developing phase) of a worm called Trichinella. They can only be seen under a microscope. I have read a articles some time ago that no matter how long pork is cooked those Worms do not die. The articles stated that some scientists burnt the pork and those little buggers were still moving around. Besides that the pigs will eat any thing. So I never eat any pork any more.
@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
7 Dec 08
deebomb...Good Morning....It's just NOT pigs that will eat anything! If you will remember the "Mad Cow" disease scare of not too long ago, it was narrowed down to the fact that the cattle were being fed their own by-products;bone ect., in their mash. Animals that are kept in pens, fattened up for slaughter, (think of them in the natural habitat, eat, lay down, chew their cud) are so bored in these enclosures, all they have to do is eat, so anything becomes fair game!
Something else that I learned, Melatonin, prescribed for sleep, etc., comes from the brain of cows (a hormone that they harvest) and it has been transferred to humans that way! Yikes!
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
7 Dec 08
i dont think anything that comes from animals is safe to eat because you never know how they were cared for and you have to be so picky on how you prepare it..
omg melatonin is that?!?! heck no!
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
7 Dec 08
yeah pork i think is one of the most dangerous things to eat it seems.. if you handle it wrong it can really screw you up!!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
9 Dec 08
we eat pork all the time but canadian pork, so we are okay here.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
16 Dec 08
we had one case of mad cow and that cow never got to the food chain and it was purchased from the usa in the first place, and by the way the usa had a mad cow scare after that in their own cows,
and listeria happens in all countries
@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
14 Dec 08
Boy, winterose, my friend, you have a lot more faith in the Canadian/Federal Food inspectors than I have! Especially seeings, we were ONE of the major countries that Japan/USA banned beef from, because we were hosting so many cattle/cows with Mad Cow disease. And we just went thru, Listeria, due to inadequate inspections!
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
7 Dec 08
I don't know about the raising/processing of foods in Ireland! But
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
7 Dec 08
Ignorance is bliss, my dear....I really think that a lot of producers were not aware that the foods they were delivering to their own animals, was mash made up of animal by-products, until the whole "Mad cow" health scare about ten years ago, the one that was so out of control...that if you visited Britain during this crisis, when you came home/landed at airport you had to be completely disinfected!
That is also the time that the release was made about Melatonin, and it's sales suspended, because they did not know whether it came from the brain tissue of infected cows! Cheers!
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
7 Dec 08
why the heck would farmers feed animals their own kind anyways??
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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14 Dec 08
The CJD (Mad Cow) epidemic was horrendous. We went across to France one day and so paranoid were the French authorities that we and our car were all inspected and disinfected by French immigration, aided and abetted by Brits BEFORE we left England! CJD is a classic example of greed affecting the food chain. It was common for animal feed to include ground bits of other animals. That's now illegal here. So unscrupulous food processors (we're talking individuals not corporations) have been known to buy food unfit for human consumption, clean it, repackage it and sell it to supermarkets! That's not legal either, but it happens.
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