If health canada starts radiation-zapping every meat under the canadian sun, i’m going hunting. Since the listeria outbreak caused by contaminated surfaces at one very popular, canadian-emblemed meat processing plant, canada has gone mad-cow from fear.

(Listeria is a bacteria that lives in the soil, water and all around us and can contaminate meat and produce alike. It rarely makes healthy people sick and even less rarely kills people unless they are in certain immunocompromised demographics such as pregnancy, in utero, children, the elderly, diabetes, cancer, HIV or AIDS infected or taking immunosuppressing medication (such as steroids). it is destroyed by pasteurization and cooking therefore we dont eat raw hamburger meat unless we know the source to be small, organic and newly slaughtered. In meat products that are cured without heat for example in hot dogs, deli and luncheon meats the bacteria can grow between curing and packaging, hence what happened this summer.)

the United States has been irradiating their meat since an e coli scare in 2000, but has it helped their listeria rates, since there are still 2500 serious cases reported per year? why not clean up the mess and then lay the meat down instead of putting it down on a mess and then irradiating it afterwards.

xox dr millie lytle nd

extra extra read all about Listeria
http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/dfbmd/disease_listing/listeriosis_gi.html