Friday, May 17, 2013

Taco Bell: Live Mas, or Live less ?



Personally I LOVE Taco Bell, but in the past years the Taco Bell franchise has had a few outbreaks in their food.  But this isn't an attack on Taco Bell. There's a bigger picture here. The idea that the fastest and cheapest food that is offered to our country isn't properly taken care of. If these big name franchises that consume almost all of our countries propaganda time aren't selling us healthy food, where will we get this food from ?

According to this article (http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/foodborne-illness-outbreaks/three-taco-bell-ingredient-outbreaks-in-ten-years/#.UZY5LRmhDJE) Taco Bell had a Hepatitis A outbreak in the year 2000. They also had an e.coli outbreak in the year 2006. with the e coli outbreak in 2006 the article states, "Among these 71 ill persons, 53 (75%) were hospitalized and 8 (11%) developed a type of kidney failure called hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)." They also had a possible Salmonella outbreak in 2010. of course there is more restaurants that have unsanitary food offered to the public happens. this is just an example because Taco Bell is one of my favorite places to eat when my mother doesn't cook. 

Another big idea that is a problem is that these franchises are all over our country. They are sold to every American no matter where you are. It's not a contained problem that the food is just infected in one area of our country but the problem of our food being spoiled is all over. It's surrounding us. It appears to me that nowhere to eat is safe, and not one place can be considered more dirty than the other. According to another article (http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2006/ucm108803.htm) "The peak of the outbreak occurred in the last week of November. A total of 71 cases in five states -- Delaware, 2 cases; New Jersey, 33 cases; New York, 22 cases; Pennsylvania, 13 cases; and South Carolina, 1 case -- have been reported to the CDC. The single case in South Carolina occurred in a person who ate at a Taco Bell in Pennsylvania. The number of new cases has declined substantially."

 -- Samantha 'Seahorse' Tirado

2 comments:

  1. This is insane because i love taco bells and to know that their food has been contaminated makes me second guess on going there. See, i agree that the government and FDA needs to figure out how we can feel safe on consuming food in America that wont necessarily kill us.
    I searched up a link that explains why the govt should do something about. So far it isn't a definite answer but i think that the reasons they have are pretty solid and really have a good point.

    http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm247559.htm

    my question for you is do you think the govt will agree to passing this law/act?

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