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Monday, March 13, 2017

Are we doing enough to keep our food safe?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/dining/bird-flu-avian-influenza-chickens-tyson-foods.html?_r=0


While scrolling through The New York Times, I came across this article talking about the avian flu. The article talks about a farm that produces chickens for the Tyson company. On this farm, a case of lethal avian influenza was found in the flock of chickens that the farm was producing. How did these flocks of chickens receive this disease of  avian flu? That is the thing, they do not know where the disease came from. The Department of Agriculture has done research and has still not identified where the avian flu had come from. Tyson stated that, "this was a bird health issue and not a food safety concern or human health concern." They later added, "there’s no evidence to suggest that any form of avian influenza can be transmitted to humans from properly cooked poultry.” Does the safety of the product not matter to major companies anymore? Most likely, these chickens are raised in poor conditions. The chickens are probably give genetically modified food to grow bigger, cramped up into a small space, and given no daylight. However, that doesn't matter to major companies like Tyson. These major companies are only worried about the mass production of their products. Overall, maybe it's time to change the way major companies run how they produce their food, in order to increase the guarantee of the population's safety.

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