Dumbest idea EVER.

posted by The Vidiot @ 10:06 AM Permalink

And no, I'm not talking about the Iraq war, though it's a close second.

No, I'm talking about the FDA allowing viruses to be sprayed on processed meat in an effort to kill certain types of bacteria. And not only will things like sliced turkey or hotdogs be sprayed with the stuff, they won't be required to label the products as having been sprayed. The Dept. of Agriculture said that they would "monitor it's use." Oh, yeah, I feel safe by that fact.

Excerpt: "The FDA is applying one of the toughest food-safety standards which they have to find this is safe," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group. "They couldn't approve this product if they had questions about its safety."

Unless those questions were answered by a lobby group giving skads of cash to someone, right?.

Listen, I don't enjoy being the harbinger of doom, but alas, it is a role I play well and here it goes:

Life wants to live. Viruses are life. If viruses have nothing to live on, then they'll mutate to survive on something else. It's just that simple. So if these viruses, at this moment, won't effect any human bacteria, you can be pretty damn sure that at some point in the future, they will.

Ohhhhh, yet another food category to ban from Mr. Vidiot's diet. (He's already not allowed to eat beef, non-organic milk and anything with nitrites. He'll not be happy about this.)