Imagine the maelstrom of pathogen-laced meat in commerce if USDA would only inspect meat plants after there has been a problem. Or if FAA would only inspect airplanes after problems occur. Inherent problems are obvious when our government is comfortable with reactive policies, rather than being proactive.

FDA folks are professionals in the realm of medicine and medical devices. All their current duties to oversee food facilities should be turned over to another agency.

The opportunity is ripe for a contemporary Upton Sinclair. Only this time, a book would not focus on industry, but on government agencies which abhor the concept of physically inspecting food production facilities.

John Munsell

just wash your goshdarn eggs off.

besides a little salmonella ain't bad for ya, compared to what the gov is doing to ya.

besides, this is likely another setup, among many to come, to jack the price of foodstuff up so the gov can get consumers to spend more money, and thus stimulate the economy. Not to mention for their rich bankster friends to get even richer by playing the AG market with early insider information.

Its all a game. Its all bullsh#t....everything.

You never know what the real truth is because those in charge are dishonest, deceptive and there is zero transparency.

Just be glad you have food to put in your stomach. or we'll send you to a third world country.

"In a statement, Hillandale Farms said it and Wright County Egg "share a number of common suppliers because they are in the same industry in the same state. One of those suppliers is Quality Egg, LLC which supplies pullets and feed to both companies and is owned by the [Jack] DeCoster family. "

I wrote to Quality Egg company to inquire about their feed product and there was no reply.

I just find all of this story about the eggs very confusing. If it was contaminated feed that the chickens ate, then it is the inside of the egg that has the salmonella, not just the outside of the egg, and I have always understood that if you fully cook an egg, it kills salmonella.

Now we get this report that it's the conditions and environment at those two egg farms that caused the salmonella, and this report seems to imply that the salmonella is only on the outside of the eggs.

What we need is someone to explain the facts and the truth to us.

Demand change with your pocket book through the free market system. Be prepared to pay though, quality isn't cheap so I know consumers still wont do it. They like having lots of junk instead of investing in quality, even more so when it comes to food.

My background, shoved chicken sh*t throughout my childhood. Both sides of my family owned chicken houses, father's side cleaned them out. This is 100% the norm in the chicken industry.

Factory farms are a disaster. Buy your own chickens and put them in your backyard for Christ's sake!