>> >> Be many of us eat salad, should we stop as it's evidence of poor
>> standards?
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>> I think comparing salad and chicken is apples/pears territory.
>>
>> Salad, unless produced in places like Thanet Earth*, is out in the open with insects,
>> bird poop and soil borne pathogens, a potential risk that cannot be mitigated by better
>> husbandry.
Not really it's a reasonable comparison. Its the end aim that matters, are the products safer or not?
>> By comparison American chicken is farmed in indoor sheds at population densities and with practices
>> long banned in Europe. Slaughtering and butchering practices are also slack in ways that would
>> not be tolerated in EU. Chlorine washing mitigates for those poor practices. It's not 100%
>> though, US rates of Salmonella, E-Coli etc are way ahead of UK.
>>
I can't say I've looked into such things. But I will say people are more interested than ever about where their food comes from.
>> *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanet_Earth
interesting, never heard of that place before.
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