7 de outubro de 2009

Comam carne regional! ... ou os perigos para a saúde da globalização.

Mas se duvidam da pertinência do conselho, façam o favor de ler The world is flat, kind of gross Free exchange Economist.com e o início do seu apontamento:

"EZRA KLEIN pulls an interesting quote from a recent New York Times piece on E. coli infections and the meat processing industry. Brace yourself:
The frozen hamburgers that the Smiths ate, which were made by the food giant Cargill, were labeled “American Chef’s Selection Angus Beef Patties.” Yet confidential grinding logs and other Cargill records show that the hamburgers were made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmings and a mash-like product derived from scraps that were ground together at a plant in Wisconsin. The ingredients came from slaughterhouses in Nebraska, Texas and Uruguay, and from a South Dakota company that processes fatty trimmings and treats them with ammonia to kill bacteria. [...]"

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