Friday, 12 March 2010
Largest Food Recall in North American History Coming Soon!
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Another of the dangers of putting all your eggs in one basket. I speak of course of Corporate America's tendency to get bigger and bigger while causing the ma and pa shops to close because they cannot compete with the purchasing or production power that a multi-national conglomerate brings to the game.
The same can be said for our food supply. For years we've watched as corporate monsters such as Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto Company, and the privately held Cargill forced the family farmer out of business either by corrupting policy coming from Washington or forcing the farmer to purchase only their products due to copyrights and patents being allowed on crop seeds.
So it should be no surprise that the largest manufacturer of HVP (Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein), Basic Food Flavors, a North Las Vegas food ingredient company, was found to have a very large batch of its product laced with salmonella.
A large batch of the flavor enhancer known as hydrolyzed vegetable protein or HVP, supplied by Basic Food Flavors, a North Las Vegas food ingredient company, was found to be laced with salmonella. Thus far, over one hundred products containing the ingredient have been recalled in both the U.S. and Canada. The company produces about 20 million pounds of the food additive annually.
The problem is further exacerbated in that those who purchased the tainted HVP generally mix HVP from differing sources into one large holding area, thus tainting their entire production supply feed.
So how bad is it going to be? HVP is used in virtually everything that is packaged or canned — 10,000 products may be a conservative estimate. On March 4, 2010, Basic Food Flavors — who offers the food industry 120 varieties of hydrolyzed vegetable protein or HVP — announced a recall of its entire production dating to September 17, 2009. The Food and Drug Administration is continuously updating the recall list at www.foodsafety.gov.
You can also see a list of all products being recalled that contain HVP at the FDA website.
Canwest News reports that in Canada, consumers could be exposed to the contaminated batch through imported pre-packaged foods or items manufactured north of the border using the ingredient.
HVP is an MSG-like flavor enhancer that is mixed in with other spices, and added to thousands of processed foods, including chips, dip mixes, salad dressings, sauces, hotdogs, soups, frozen dinners, bouillons, gravy mixes, snacks, and ready-to-eat foods. And unless HVP is part of a flavor mix, HVP may not be listed as an ingredient on a food package. I would direct my readers attention to the dangers of MSG-like substances (MonoSodium Glutamate).
Is it any wonder so many people shop farmer's markets... companies like Monsanto try to shut them down. Remember this you big corporate farm dumbasses, when you ruin our crops and genetically contaminate our food supply so that it becomes dangerous to eat, it also means you don't eat. Is the almighty dollar worth killing everyone in the world?
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