BARFBLOG: Eat this, you’ll be fine - (barfblog)
April 2, 2008 – 8:51 pmhttp://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/04/articles/food-safety-communication/eat-this-youll-be-fine/index.html
Last week, Italy’s Agriculture Minister, Paolo De Castro, dug into some buffalo mozzarella for the cameras after assuring the European Commission that no mozzarella cheese contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin had been exported.
On Saturday President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras downed some homegrown cantaloupe for a CNN news crew, proclaiming, “I eat this fruit without any fear. Its a delicious fruit.
Nothing happens to me!
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/honduras-fights-us-ban-on-its-cantaloupes/index.html?hp
Both were continuing a questionable tradition that may actually amplify the concerns of citizens when the safety of certain foods is scrutinized: roll out the politician to consume the food in question.
The list is long:
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien scarfed back a burger after the first case of mad cow disease was discovered in Canada in May 2003;
French President Jacques Chirac and future French president Nicolas Sarkozy consumed cooked chicken during the International Agriculture show in Paris in March 2006 to bolster confidence after an outbreak […]
MORE:
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/fsnews.cfm?newsid=25166
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