PieFed.WorldPoultry industry pushes back after report shows salmonella is widespread in grocery store chicken
www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-10-30/salmon…
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TonyTonyChopper[Big corporate] industry pushes back after report of [heinous truth]
Same shit different ass
Uh... Yeah? That's why we cook it and wash our hands after touching it.
shani66Yeah, i thought this was normal? I'm not having chicken sashimi in the US!
- In the US
It being from the LA Times I think most of us assumed that.
In the rest of the world, newspapers can carry stories that cover more than just their home country. Thank you for that timely example of American exceptionalism.
Do you find that when that occurs they usually don't include the name of the country in the headline?
I find that not every newspaper website url is going to be obvious which country they are from. And I see no reason why in a community about world news, it is consistently the American news that somehow manages to not label which country the news is about.
(Bonus American exceptionalism: Assuming that LA must mean Los Angeles California, worldwide. And that everybody should be familiar with it, when LA in ISO format actually refers to Laos, and there are 91 distinct locations worldwide going by the identical name.)
You are just trying so hard here for no reason whatsoever. Chill out buddy.
America is such a funny place. From the outside it looks amazing and advanced and all techy and freedom and stuff but every time you learn something about it you realize it's really a lipstick covered dead rotten pig.
I’m American and I moved to Germany a few years ago. The first time I went to a bathroom at my university with a soap grater, I laughed at it because it was so bizarrely old fashioned. Then I realized that the university I went to in the US had automatic soap dispensers that jammed up on a regular basis, and the soap graters were probably 50 years older than the dispensers and still worked perfectly.
That’s a good metaphor for my life in the US compared to Germany, I think. I don’t have a car or a microwave, but I don’t need them and actually live better without them. I don’t have a freezer, which sucks, but I do probably eat better because of it. I have two less fancy and worse paying jobs that activate my brain and body better and afford more in fewer hours than my one job in the US.
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Biden was full out reclassifying salmonella as an adulterant.
That means if there is salmonella it has to be recalled.
Not sure how to take this. I assume all raw chicken has some degree of salmonella and cook appropriately. I've done some fairly gross shit, like washing off breasts that started to get slimy on the outside, never got sick. My sense of smell is pretty weak, but as long as it doesn't have that smell, good to go.
When inspectors visit a plant, they do not assess the meat’s bacterial load, nor do they determine the strain of bacteria found on the product. They just test for the presence of the bacterium — it’s either there or it’s not.
I'm not convinced that's valid safety testing. Anyone closer to the trade want to comment?
Lol. Fucking joke country. Have fun with that. Imma gulp down some raw unwashed free range chicken eggs that cost me next to nothing from the grocery store that I walk to.
Don't forget they're not only unwashed, but also salmonella free. US-Americans don't get it if you don't explicitly explain that to them 😉
I like Costco as a business (at least as much as one can like any business) but I refuse to buy their chicken. I've never opened a package of it that wasn't covered in pink slime and had an odor.
WahotsHmm, that might be a bad sign for your area. I've gone to costco in different states and countries, and the chicken was always fine. I believe different regions get different suppliers. I've even noticed variations between multiple Costcos in a city.
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If you eat chicken, and I do, you should kill and process one at least once. I am happy to pay more than $1.29/lb for decent chicken. And lucky that I can find it near me.
When workers are paid less than a living wage and the companies in question own the politicians this shit happens
The fecal soup doesn't help.
its whats for dinner
Bro, poultry factory floor workers make over 3x minimum wage (starting) in low cost of living areas. They even offer several thousand dollar signing bonuses.
They have to because it's a horrible and disgusting job that no one wants to do.
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Tip-Top-Poultry/salaries?location=US%2FGA#%3A%7E%3Atext=According+to+Indeed%2C+the+average+hourly+pay%2Cemployees%2C+users%2C+and+job+advertisements+on+Indeed.
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Chicken-Plant-Salary#%3A%7E%3Atext=How+much+does+a+Chicken%2CChicken+Plant+on+ZipRecruiter+today.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/counties-with-highest-concentrations-of-jobs-in-poultry-and-animal-slaughtering-june-2020.htm#%3A%7E%3Atext=Marshall+County%2C+Alabama%2C+had+an%2Cslightly+above+the+national+average.
paid as much as teachers who are paid less than police
minimum wage is $7.25 and 3X that is $21.75 still less than a living wage
https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/carow-policy/what-living-wage#%3A%7E%3Atext=In+this+case%2C+a+full-time+worker+is%2Cliving+wages+of+a+big+metropolitan+city
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/living_wage.asp#%3A%7E%3Atext=What+Is+the+Living+Wage%2Cat+a+total+of+%2480%2C766.
https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/11#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+living+wage+shown+is+the+hourly%2Cworking+full-time%2C+or+2080+hours+per+year.
Poultry plants are not typically located in major metropolitan areas. The cost of living in the rural areas they're located in is much lower than your figures.
We have a poultry/pig processing plant in town that pays $14/hr starting. Which is less than 2 x the minimum wage. Which isn't even remotely close to a living wage in any neighboring counties 2 deep at least. I eat at a restaurant where a guy works his second job that he needs to survive. According to him (I can't nor do I care to confirm) he lives with his girlfriend and two roommates, the roommates also all work at the same facility and also all have 2nd jobs.
How are you still arguing? He basically obliterated you with facts. Holy crap.
He didn't. He provided a bunch of numbers, yes, but they aren't related.
Oh man but I love medium rare chicken it’s nice and juicy.
Accidents can happen even before you eat. Preparing the chicken might mean contaminating your hands, a knife, a cutting board, and your countertop if there’s even a small amount of water flowing out the meat. You put all that in the sink, wash your hands, but… by washing your hands, were you careful enough not to contaminate the water valve on your kitchen sink? How about the soap dispenser? Did you make certain nobody touched the countertop before you sanitized it? There’s a lot of ways something can go wrong when working with dangerous substances.
It's less dangerous than vegetables have you seen the recalls for those lately?
Mmmmmm-mmmmm Like poultry flavored Jell-O.