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Trichinosis sounds disgusting. Still, I don't eat game meat, and pork's always cooked. Does anyone know if this affects bacon?
Trichinosis sounds disgusting. Still, I don't eat game meat, and pork's always cooked. Does anyone know if this affects bacon?
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Is Taco Bell a foodborne illness? B/c I get some of these symptoms when I eat their food.
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@cobaltthorium: Bacon is cured on a brine solution then usually smoked. If you cook bacon to an internal temperature of 160F, you shouldn't have a problem. Keep in mind that since farmers usually feed their pigs formulated pig feed the possibility for trichinosis is extremely small.
I picked up \"Fast Food Nation\" at a half-price bookstore and am 2/3rds of the way through it. One of the things the book talks about is how 90% of the ground beef consumed in this country comes from a few very large processing plants, and how a single hamburger can contan meat from thousands of cows. Add to that mix the USDA inspectors are pretty much useless and the meat industry has resisted every regulatory proposal made, and you've got all the ingredients that e. coli O157:H7 needs to make a lot of people sick.
I'm not anti-meat by any means, but I'm going to have a really hard time eating a fast food burger again. There's a guy at the farmer's market that sells beef. Grass fed, and hopefully butchered at a facility where carcasses aren't going down the line so fast that feces spray everywhere.
And we've already had a Consumerist story saying that we'll probably never know where the salmonella in the tomatoes came from. That's just great. Green onions killed Chi-Chis. Then spinach last year, tomaotes this year - what's next?
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@cobaltthorium: I think it can be in any part of the pig since the worms reside in muscle tissue. The good news is that Trichinosis from farmed pigs is extremely rare in the US th... Rare enough that it's actually once again becoming accepted to serve pork that your parents and grandparents would have considered undercooked.
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I am not sure if I would include \"Mad Cow Disease\" as a common food bourne illness.
@Troy F.: My pork is usually frozen for a long time before I eat it. Besides, I'm paranoid about under-cooked meat and cross-contamination ever since that video in HS ...
The issue with Mad Cow is that it takes years for symptoms to develop. Check out proper cooking temperatures to prevent all of these baddies.
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@Troy F.: I've read that trichinosis may have been one of the original reasons for the Jewish/Muslim prohibitions against eating pork.
Seriously? Mad Cow Disease is rare, and as for trichnosis (from the CDC) \"During 1997-2001, an average of 12 cases per year were reported.\"
Scaremongering. Tsk tsk.
I want to know where Consumerist finds these photos. Who photographs themselves at a toilet like that? Seriously?
@johnva: yes that, and that they lounge in their own feces.
Listeria is a lot more scary than they portray it. It causes stillbirth, miscarriage and premature delivery. Also, I hope people realize that there is no such thing as the \"stomach flu\" if you are vomiting etc. you have food poisoning.
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@tedyc03: Actually, my first thought was that she looks like she belongs there. Eat a sammitch and keep it down, lady!
@rkmase: Amen.
Here in the lovely western world, factory farmed meat will give you the runs eventually (why wouldn't you buy local anyhow?), but as per the Salmonella tomatoes, while these ailments are certainly uncomfortable they are readily recognized and treated.
Trichinosis on the other hand is scary as hell, but is often caught by the FDA meat inspections. It usually occurs in people who butcher their own hogs, or get iffy-sourced meat. That said, those larval cysts can end up in your brain, your organs, get calcified... it's horrible, and not anywhere near as treatable as the others on the list (though much, MUCH more rare). In fact, cases often last for years, and end up being fatal once the larvae enter the central nervous system (brain or spinal cord); there are really no treatments to kill the encysted larvae.
But unless you feed pigs crap (literally), and butcher them yourself or eat bear meat, you simply are not going to get it. So come on now - eat local, wash your veggies, don't eat things that don't smell right, and enjoy a long healthy life with more time on your hands since you don't have to incessantly worry every time a story comes on the 11 o'clock news.
AHHH Ze goggles, zey do nothing!
My eyes will be watering for the next 10 minutes thanks to that image. Ughhhhh
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@me and the sysop: Jesus Christ, those trichinosis eyes are going to HAUNT my DREAMS.
I've been slacking on making it to the farmers' market this summer, but dammit this article has spurred me to it. I'm going to go hit up the lovely local beef farmer and get some veggies while I'm at it. The trichinosis eyes compel me.
@MeSoHornsby: Except that botulism ultimately paralyzes your diaphragm, then you stop breathing, then you die. That's some hangover.
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@velvetjones: Well, to be fair to the pig, he lounges in mud because he lacks sweat glands and uses it to cool down. In the wild, they'd never do that in their own feces.
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@tedyc03:
I don't know the picture's origin, but given the subject's physique, I would aver that she was in that position by choice.
@velvetjones: Apparently you have never been around children before. Every year the stomach flu hits schools. It is passed around to every classroom and for a few weeks each classroom has a handful of kids out.
I do agree that a lot (but not all) of throwing up is due to food poisoning though.
@larsitron:
You can cook the meat all you want mad cow is protein based (prion disease) and you can not cook it out.
Also I agree with the other poster, CFJ is NOT common. It is even debatable if it is food borne at all.
@whatdoyoucare: What velvetjones is getting at is that what is coloquially known as \"stomach flu\" is not an actual disease. Most of the time when all of the kids at school get \"stomach flu\" it's some variation of Norovirus, which...I'm not epidemiologist, but I don't even think norovirus counts as a \"food poisoning\" since it's ridiculously easy to transmit from person to person by all kinds of methods other than food prep.
Basically the term \"stomach flu\" is a misnomer.
Is the girl in the picture throwing up because of a foodborne illness, or malnutrition?
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Norovirus--- do cruise ship chefs poop on their hands or something?
No one talked about D.A.D.S. ...
Day after drinking shits.
If you are a raging alcoholic you could convince yourself that you had Campylobacter instead of one-too-many doubles at the local Raven Club
How much the problem is due to hygiene and cross-contamination vs. modern industrial agriculture?
And no hepatitis, crypto, take your pick from [www.cdc.gov] ? Those are a lot more common than BSE.
While BSE is extremely rare, as far as we know, no amount of proper food processing or preparation technique will protect you from it.
Recently, the Koreans had a huge political upheaval over US cattle imports, originally banned because of BSE detection. Maybe there should be a Consumerist post on why Koreans don't want U.S. beef?
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There is no temperature at which you will neutralize Mad Cow disease while keeping the meat palatable (or possibly edible).
But yeah...it takes years to develop...so for all we know it COULD be really common right now. Like 10 years from now, everyone who ate at a McDonald's in the early 2000s could start drooling all over themselves.
@Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes:
Either you need to go to a different Taco Bell, or you've got some immunity issues.
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Norovirus is nasty, nasty stuff. My daughter's summer camp was cancelled last week and they sent everybody home because of an outbreak. Two children showed up ill on Sunday; a third of the kids and staff were sick by midday Wednesday. Viruses like that can go airborne, get on your hands or a food prep surface and boom. I was told the kitchen was badly contaminated.
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I have gotten norovirus the last 2 Christmases in a row. I guess Louisiana (where I flew home to be with my family) is an exceptioanlly filthy state.
In late 2006 I thought I had trichinosis fortunately it was only appendicitis. A few days later I wandered into the hospital where they had an emergency operation and a few days later voila I was out of there. =)
Waaaait a minute, the article presents Mad Cow Disease as if it's as common as everyday food poisoning! Just, don't eat the mystery meat casserole at the Paupa New Guinea church potluck and you'll be fine.
If the illegal immigrant has no concern over the laws of jumping the borders what makes you think he is going to care about running to a bathroom instead of crapping wherever he is out in the field when nature calls.
Solution? If you are illegal you are deported immediately. If you hired an illegal your company is closed and and your assets are seized to aid immigration. End of most salmonella in the country.
Awww, my sister has food poisoning right now. Based on this, it's probably norovirus. Lucky her.
Also, immigrants have nothing to do with foodborne illnesses, as everyone other than the troll knows.
@evilhapposai: So breaking the law to get a better life means that you have no personal hygiene standards? Non Sequitur.
How about if you are going to break the law to hire undocumented workers, you probably are not too concerned about product safety either. Any way to save a buck.
@evilhapposai: So breaking the law to get a better life means that you have no personal hygiene standards? Non Sequitur.
How about if you are going to break the law to hire undocumented workers, you probably are not too concerned about product safety either. Any way to save a buck.
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The symptoms for botulism sound a lot like the symptoms of drunkenness.
Also, I'll pass on reading \"more details about each illness\" thank you very much. Maybe after I finish my medium-rare bacon sandwich.