Something as simple as eggs reveals a whole socio-economic -and political- structure. From the New York Times:
A half billion eggs have been recalled for possible salmonella infection, but the cause of the problem, at two giant farms in Iowa, has not yet been pinpointed, said Margaret Hamburg, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Many poultry experts suspect that rodents infected with salmonella got into the chicken feed because the infection seems to be inside the eggs.Isn't the salmonella just a sign of a way of doing business in America? This is not only about food safety, it is about the sheer size of these Iowa egg-farms. See that only a couple of Iowa producers are involved in the recall of more than 500 million eggs!
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