As is often the case, I spend a good deal of my day finding things that interest me so I don't have to spend too much of my time dedicated to work. After all, work is soooo boring. What a drag.You know what would be a really cool job though? Being the guy that gets to decide what an "acceptable level" of shit happens to be in food meant for human consumption. Yeah. That would be a great job.
Think about it. How many other jobs are there where you're not held responsible if the product of your work is a huge, steaming pile of shit? Or, if it contains shit?
We really like to throw that shit word around a bit, "Your work is shit!" or, "You do really shitty work!"
I once had a college professor tell me that an essay I wrote for a literature class was shit. Imagine the irony when I found out he died of colon cancer?
Seriously though, an article at The Consumerist relays the information that 39% of bagged salads have bacteria in them. Some of that bacteria is indicative of being contaminated with . . .
pausing for dramatic effect . . .
You guessed it, good ol' SHIT.
So, definitely do not eat salad straight out of the bag. Your best interests would be served by washing it before you eat - that is unless you have an affinity for sewage in your salad.
But it really makes me wonder. How can that much shit end up in our food? Why is it so impossible to separate the shit from the edible food? You'd think there were higher standards?
Imagine if a company started that had a 0% acceptable level of shit in the food they sold. Could they possibly keep up with the demand or have we become a country that can't function without an "acceptable level" of shit in our food?
I must admit when it comes to your subject matter...I roll in it and on special occasion eat that which is produced by my fellow canines but euuuuu I would never eat it wtih my greens :( Thanks for making me the wiser!