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The huge recall of 380 million eggs is causing some to question of whether American poultry farms should adopt new practices to keep salmonella out of food. Hundreds of people have fallen ill because of the tainted eggs, as the outbreak looks to have kicked off in May. Experts suspect the source of the contaminated eggs, Iowa company Wright County Egg, could have a very sick flock of birds. New rules for testing for salmonella and sanitizing henhouses went into effect July 9, but similar policies have been in place in Denmark and Sweden for years. Those countries have kept salmonella out of poultry since the 1970s. If any birds tested positive, the whole flock would be killed, and the government compensated farmers for the loss. Europeans tend to try to prevent the disease, while Americans fix the problem after the harvest with pasteurization. American experts say European programs couldn't work in the U.S   http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/

Okay, so I'm in some biology class in the eleventh grade and I read that you should NEVER EAT RAW EGGS because YOU COULD GET SALMONELLA.

But Real Mayo has raw eggs in it. I have seen them make real mayo on the cooking channel. It is just eggs and oil and they add some spice, which is nice. Being a Miracle Whip kind of guy I just 'filed it away'.

The reason that we should not worry about processed mayo on the food shelves is that there is something called pasteurization. This process:

Pasteurization is a process of heating a food, usually liquid, to a specific temperature for a definite length of time, and then cooling it immediately. This process slows microbial growth in food. The process was named after its creator, French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur. The first pasteurization test was completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard on April 20, 1864. The process was originally conceived as a way of preventing wine and beer from souring

So my kids never ate cookie dough. Kids all over eat cookie dough. Hell they have cookie dough ice cream.

Rocky just fixes raw eggs in a blender with god knows what and then drinks the concoction.

But movie characters are always having indiscriminate sex without protection anyway so what's the diff?  Ever notice none of these TV or cinema characters ever get the clap? So why worry about eggs?

I was just amazed that 380 million eggs were recalled and it really did not get that much play on MSM.  I mean, just think, 380 million abortions that went awry and we are not notified by the teaparty?

Salmonellosis is an infection with Salmonella bacteria. Most people who get infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, vomiting, and abdominal cramps, 8 to 72 hours after infection. In most cases, the illness lasts 4 to 7 days; most affected persons recover without treatment.  (Wiki)

Furthermore, I thought everybody dies from Salmonella.

Second it is unhealthy to go on picnics unless you stick to mustard.

Third, be safe and stick to Miracle Whip.

I do not really wish to make a political issue of all this.

I suppose repubs would not only vote against any European model of egg sifting.

But then again, repubs would like to destroy the FDA and all agricultural regulations anway.

The Dems would probably, without much research, glom onto the European model of regulating egg production.

And Jesus H. Christ, don't even ask the Animal Humane Society about all of this.

I guess I would like to get chicken-chemist/biologists from Europe and Asia and America to sit at some convention together and figure it all it.

Egg production after all is an extremely complicated process. http://ag.ansc.purdue.edu/poultry/publication/commegg/

Each hen lays about 300 eggs in a year. (ibid)

75 billion chicken eggs are produced in the U.S. every year. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_eggs_are_produced_each_year_in_the_US

Now I think this entire blog is terrible and I must cease and desist from any further discussion on this subject or I will end up with egg on my face.