Elle Magazine-10 most dangerous foods

Yep they're all at it, here's Elle's survey.
http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitne ... rous-Foods

Ah yes. Welcome to the modern world where in addition to all the "normal" troubles of the world we now have to deal with daily stories about how this food and that food is now contaminated with this or that. Doesn't it just make you feel all warm, safe and eager to go to shopping at the grocery store! Oh well, I guess no one ever said the world is safe, even what we eat...

I remember thinking during the recent peanut butter scare this past winter simply how odd it is that these food scares now seem to be common day worries. It's not that I'm saying they aren't true and very real but it just puzzles me as to WHY all these things are happening just TODAY and, apparently, never seemed to before? Are regulations and quality control of food products simply a bigger and more neglected problem (for some reason) than it always used to be? Or is it, like a lot of things, a case where the lightning speed and over-sensitive news world we live in just takes perhaps a valid but relatively controllable or isolated problem and turns it into a "new food scare"? Because then suddenly, as with this recent peanut butter scare, it just mysteriously vanishes as a story??? I mean, is it now safe to eat it (in ALL instances)??? No one said the coast was completely clear yet (or I wasn't listening...). I know they mentioned (all along) that most major brands in jars were safe from worry, but you heard update after update after update and then suddenly the scare just stopped now. The last I heard (back in the winter) was that they suspected it originated in a Georgia plant somewhere but they didn't exactly know which products may still be under suspect or which ones may be further recalled. Is this where it still stands? Are we supposed to still be concerned if we buy an "off the wall" peanut butter item? I assume no more stories on it infers we're all now relatively safe to just bathe in peanuts again? If so, great. But it just seems puzzling sometimes how these things come out of the blue with food products and then, just as randomly (or without mention of "clearance") just go away...

Because the irony is that you would think, in theory, that today we would have better/stricter/easier/more informed ways to detect or stop any food contamination issues (relative to the past) yet I never recall (pun intended) hearing stories in the 50's or 60's about peanut butter being bad one week or meat being recalled nationwide the next week. Heck, milk used to be delivered door to door at one time. I don't remember hearing panic stories about contamination found in milk? I'm not saying they didn't exist - after all I wasn't alive! How would I know? But I don't remember hearing such things via parents, relatives, old news stories, etc. What's been in the air during JUST the last decade to not just cause a random "food worry" but to be causing them almost weekly with just about every food product we can imagine??? If anything, common sense would seem to suggest that we should have FEWER of these issues in more modern and regulated times! Then again I should know better than to try and bring common sense into the real world so this is probably my error in logic somehow...

Nonetheless, for what it's worth, based on this article my biggest worries appear to be #3 (beef) and #9 (bottled water). I consume those two like oxygen for the most part! Yikes!

Jeff

Hey Jeff, think you need to "take one for the forum", and get a bottle of peanut butter (smoothe or crunchy, up to you) and test it.
If we don't hear from you then LOL, guess it still ain't safe!

When does your subscription to Elle run out, Shel?

Hey Jeff, think you need to "take one for the forum", and get a bottle of peanut butter (smoothe or crunchy, up to you) and test it.
If we don't hear from you then LOL, guess it still ain't safe!

I am on my way to the store - I'll see what I can do!

I'm sure you might be able to get the board to sign a quick petition on that one! lol It may set a world record for most signatures within an hour! I'll probably have cases of peanut butter showing up at the door now with everyone's avatar on all the different return address labels...

It has been awhile since I had a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwhich (but I do like them - the NON contaminated ones that is) I do know Peanut M & M's are very safe! They've disappeared into my mouth like a vacuum cleaner since the winter...

Jeff

When does your subscription to Elle run out, Shel?

I know I have about another 7 months left on mine...

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

Jeff

Why do we rage? They are fully correct. There is no food product that has no dangers.

But have no fear... I understand there is a cult in India where they eat nothing. All they do is drink water and stare at the sun for several hours every day. I have no idea of course whether any of the members of this cult survive for more than two weeks or if they have any vision left at the end of a few days, but what the heck - its a safe and sure way to go! All depends, I suppose, on to where you want to get.

Best
Rogov

Why do we rage? They are fully correct. There is no food product that has no dangers.

Best
Rogov

I know I have a tendency to "ramble" in my posts but that was kind of my point as well actually (or maybe the inverse of it). Since all foods, technically, could always be at risk for some form of possible contamination, why is it that it seems to be recently (at least here in the US) a sudden and frequent concern (and with multiple foods...)? Obviously anything can happen with a food product but there's probably been more food recalls/issues in just the past year or two than I can remember cumulatively the rest of my life before it!

Jeff

That's a pretty awful article. The fact that there was one guy in Georgia who was willing to disregard positive salmonella tests in order to keep his cash flow going does not mean that peanut butter is dangerous. Sheesh!

We do hear about these things more now than we did 20 or 30 years ago, but that's in large part due to the centralization of our food system. I wouldn't be surprised if many more people got sick from the beef they ate or the milk they drank back when I was a kid. But when a bad batch of beef got out, it only affected a neighborhood or maybe one part of a town. Now a bad batch of beef affects thousands of people across the country. When this happens, it's an important story the media needs to cover. Some of them do a good job. And then on the other end of the spectrum, there's Elle magazine....

That’s the first article I have ever read from Elle Magazine and it is sad what passes as journalism these days. I did click on the link under the food article that took me to another story about how women are more horny during the summer. Now that, my friends, is good journalism.

I did click on the link under the food article that took me to another story about how women are more horny during the summer. Now that, my friends, is good journalism.

Now why weren't we provided THAT link instead of this food stuff??? If you think my posts are lengthy now... I would've been ecstatic to give my "research" on that topic! Not that it would've been too specific. I cannot kiss and tell - I am a gentleman after all...

Jeff