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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I think a key part of this is that they actually bothered to track down and recall the meat,
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Well, it's a kind of principle of it. When the meat shows contamination levels several hundreds of times above the
legal limit, the only correct procedure is to track it and shut it down. The farmers and producers are not nuclear physicists and couldn't possibly evaluate the danger (or it's lack of). They were after the money, period, no matter what the cost to anybody else. With this level of ethics, how are they going to act any differently when the problem is BSE or dioxin, or whatever?
I can safely argue that you will not convince a single parent to feed their kids with this beef with mere superficial statistical interpretation. I don't buy beef, Shizuoka green tea nor this year's rice, not because it could be "unsafe", but because their decision to distribute them nonetheless is immoral and unethical (not to mention illegal), and I will express this with my wallet.
Reindeer meat in my home country is still sometimes taken off the market for increased levels of cesium from Chrenobyl (yes, even 25 years after). By the producers themselves, not just by authorities.
And after the rant, info that "Top Valu" branded beef sold at Aeon supermarkets
will all be checked for legal levels before being released into the stores. About time, I want more FRESH MEAT!!! A big fat wet slab of red...
