Food ‘Safety’? All the Dangerous Recalls in Just the Last Few Days

One of the clear and present dangers in having such a highly industrialized, highly centralized food system in this country (a system where a whopping 96% of everyone relies on the other 4% for their food) is contamination. Our food is so centralized now that 10 megacorporations essentially own and produce all the brands you see on your grocery store shelf.
In short, it ain’t like your mom’s mom’s mom used to make.
So in a typical week, several products are found contaminated with everything from undeclared major allergens to potentially fatal food-borne pathogens to ‘particulate matter’. You never know what you’re gonna get.
In just the last few days, these things have been recalled (via the FDA’s recall page and the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service FSIS):

This post was published at NutritionalAnarchy on June 15th, 2015.