Beef Recall

I'm sure by now that everyone has heard about the beef recall. If not the USDA recalled 143 million pounds of beef from a southern California slaughterhouse. This beef was sent to fast food restaurants and schools mostly. The other issue is that most of this beef has been consumed already. This slaughterhouse was using cows that were sick and no longer able to walk. There were many people outraged by this which is understandable but that probably did not stop them from buying beef at the grocery store. The reason behind this is that people have a disconnect when it comes to food. Most people don't know where their food comes from and they don't care. When you eat a Burger King do you know where that beef comes from? How about restaurants like Chili's or Applebee's? Food is no longer a focus. We eat it because we have to but we do not really think about it. This is not good because we have no idea what we are eating, where it came from or if it is going to make us sick. Luckily the U.S. has standards that seem to work pretty well because we do not have lots of people getting sick from food. The problem is when people break the rules and we do not know if our food came from there because we do not know where any of our food comes from. This problem speaks to the fact that our culture is so busy and worried about other things that we have forgotten a basic thing we all need which is food.