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What alternative do you propose? Petrochemical products are no sustainable alternative. The real source of salmonella in the U.S. is the lack of a strategy to
by ganafagol 6y ago
What alternative do you propose? Petrochemical products are no sustainable alternative.
The real source of salmonella in the U.S. is the lack of a strategy to eradicate it. Many countries have, where you can eat raw eggs any day without problem. Once a chicken farm gets an outbreak, you burn it down, that's it.
Sounds drastic? Well, then that's the choice you make and will have to live with salmonella.
- rsynnott 6y agoWell, you don’t burn it down, but it’s bad news for the chickens, certainly. And the practical approach is normally keeping bacterial load low via vaccination, hygiene, culling etc., rather than total eradication. I live in one of the ‘raw eggs are basically safe now’ countries; a government study in Ireland involving testing 5000 eggs about 10 years ago found no salmonella in egg contents, but did find it on two shells. I still don’t trust raw or undercooked eggs, though; I was at an impressionable age when the last major outbreak happened in the early 90s.