With all the news about salmonella and other food diseases that even show their ugly faces at even our local restaurants, I’ve decided to only buy name brand food items at any given chance.
CNN Health reported that Kraft Foods purchased Pistachios from a company named Setton Farms in California.
Kraft Foods reported the findings to the FDA and so the other companies, some even smaller companies were lucky enough to find this information before someone was killed.
Does this mean that Setton Farms is to blame? Its not always the fault of the growers. Since the investigation is still active we can’t know if the entire 3 million pounds of product was tainted. The problem would most likely be caused by the distributors or infected trucks transporting the goods.
So, why buy named brand food products? Because, I for one am a proud sponser of companies that go that extra mile to make their products safe for the public.
I would like to hear other people’s thoughts on this subject.
Bonnie
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Yay for Kraft foods. I agree with you it seems much safer buying brand names.
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Bonnie
I try to buy local and organic whenever possible, I don’t know that you can trust any company simply according to brand name, or size. For smaller local companies it is usually in their best interest to carefully watch over their product, They do not have the shield that sheer size, resources and connections provide to gigantic conglomerates. Smaller companies I feel are often more accountable. The peanut problem that happened recently was not a small company, not by a long shot.
Kraft is a large company that is responsible in this instance, and that is laudable. It is also in their own best interests, & the two currently correspond. This is Good for everybody. Wish this were the usual case.
What concerns me is things like the punitive and unrealistic farming and manufacturing laws being created in response to episodes of lead poisoning from China, & salmonella like that from the filthy peanut plants that the Peanut Corporation of America never cared to inspect.
Between the new CPSIA rules and farm bills: HR 875 and NAIS (backed by Monsanto, apparantly) we will have less choice and safety will still not be guaranteed. How on earth can rules like these protect against every eventuality without severely limiting choice? Somehow, somewhere real accountability has to come back into the equation, and this is across the board with everything that’s been going on & I don’t know that that can be put into place with legislation there has to be a real shift.
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Carla,
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not out to tarnish the smaller companies. I just want to point out that the larger companies are the leaders and we expect more from them and you want to support that.
I don’t know what large company you are referring to with the peanuts. Even then, unless the company is using their own trucks to transport food that isn’t properly contained, their products are again at risk.
I have been told at a grocery store from a worker once that the turkeys that he was selling as store brand were actually the same named brand with store labels.
I don’t remember such a problem with food contamination before. At what point do we start believing that everything on Earth is poison? I like to inform my family and at the same time try not to be overly cautious. The problem is, I don’t know where to draw the line.
Bonnie
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