Romaine isn't the worst of it: Food recalls up 10%, watchdog group finds. Meat and poultry recalls increased by two-thirds from 2013 to 2018 while food recalls overall edged up 10 percent, according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The recalls follow a year of food safety scares including two E. Coli contaminations linked to romaine lettuce. Source 4y.
Meat is cemented into most cultures that no meat eater can begin to comprehend a life without eating a dead animal and the industry likes it that way. The drug industry probably likes it even better as well.
Humans' meat consumption pushing Earth's biggest fauna toward extinction. At least 200 species of large animals are decreasing in number and more than 150 are under threat of extinction, according to new research that suggests humans' meat consumption habits are primarily to blame. Source 9u.