Human Toll House

Don't have too much to say about the Nestle cookie dough recall, except to say that their short press release uses the word consumer eight times. Never once referring to us as people...or anything remotely close to the term. Not even customer. Consumer.

I suppose consumer is a better choice, though, in this situation, because the corporation needs to minimize the concept that only humans get diseases...to try to make it sound like only consumers get infected and not babies, mothers, children, or fathers. Remove the human factor and the company survives the recall. The human toll is zero while the consumer gets dosed with E. coli 0157:H7. It's only a consumer; nothing to worry about, folks.

Pretty amazing, isn't it, that infected cow shit ends up in your cookie dough? Or your spinach? Or your pistacios? E. coli outbreaks are caused by a connection to commercial feedlot animal products, whether it's the animal's waste or the animal "products" themselves. The reason I can't buy Odwalla unpasteurized juice anymore is because some cow shit got thrown into the apple pile a decade ago -- so now, until the end of time, I can only get "flash pasteurized." Meaning, the food is dead on arrival. Note that by flash pasteurizing, there's no reason for the company to now worry about infected cow shit entering the apple stream. No need to reform their agricultural practices. Just cook the shit out of the food.

However, I have the extraordinary fortune to be able to buy unpasteurized juice at my local specialty grocer, Corti Brothers. I can get Perricone juices that are totally fresh, never heated or altered. Perricone ensures that cow shit doesn't find its way into the orange mill. If this independent grocer didn't exist, then I could never buy fresh. Every chain supermarket, every one, only sells pasteurized juices because they need the shelf life. They don't give a fuck about the consumer, only that they can buy in volume and store the juice for six months in a warehouse if need be. The manufacturer is the one who has to worry about the consumer, so to assuage the death of a single child a decade ago due to a bad practice that could have been changed, Odwalla decided to pasteurize every product instead, so now every "consumer" gets dead food for the rest of humanity.

Besides, Odwalla is now owned by Coca Cola. You think for a minute any of these juices are fresh? Don't fool yourself. This is one more reason why our United States citizens are the fattest and sickest people in the world.