MLA Annotated Bibliography on Meatpacking and E.coli

"E.coli shot attracts attention; If widely used, vaccine could be answer to meat safety." Lincoln Journal Star(Nebraska). January 4, 2010 Monday.


In this article, it is about Cargill, which is one of the nation's most prominent meatpacking companies, is positioning itself to test a vaccine meant tto protect the meat-eating public from the potentially deadly E.coli which is called Cargill Meat Solutions. It is could be regarded as one of the most ambitious efforts to solve meat safety problems. This initiative can be expected to command a lot of attention, which leads Nebraska in red-meat processing. Actually, the reality of meatpacking is that almost all of the E.coli problems are with ground beef, and the ground beef emerging from plants is typically as anonymous and scattered in its origins as corn or soybeans.


Cathy Pelletier. "Dream presents food Inc." Dunnville Chronicle(Ontario). December 2,2009 Wednesday. Final Edition.

This article is about the film "Food Inc." It was revealed that although the average American supermarket contains about 47,000 products, most of them come from the same source--a handful of multinational corporations. The companiew keep the farmers under their control because of the debt. The reason why giant companies force farmers to over-produce the versatile crop is that can be converted into countless products. Cheap grain drives down the price of meat. Cows are not designed by evolution to eat corn; they're disigned to eat grass. Funding and regulations regarding food processing were drastically reduced, and the FDA began relying on self-policing. All factors have resulted in widespread E.coli in spinach, tainted meat, and numerous other health hazards.


Leslie Reed. "Country OF Origin Rules Begin Safety isn't goal of labels Standards are the same for all food, but many will look for "USA." Why now and how much will it cost? New food labels." Omaha World-Herald(Nebraska). September 30, 2008 Tuesday. Iowa; Nebraska Editions.

According to this article, it is about the typical U.S. supermarket contains a cornucopia of produce from around the world. After E.coli, mad cow disease and other food scares of recent years, people want to know where meat and poultry which they eat comes from, and they also want to know theses things are as safety as they can be. But USDA officials say the new labels are no guarantee of food quality. Both imported and domestic food will continue to be subject to existing food safety standards. USDA regulations take effect requiring stores labels for meat and produce to include the country wherethe product originated.


Ben Steelman. " 'Food, Inc.' is sales pitch, disguised." Star-News(Wilmington, NC). July 16, 2009 Thursday. First Edition.

According to the article, the author talk about his thoughts about the fiml "Food, Inc." What it's selling in the doctrine of the "local food" movement. Both Pollan and Schlosser appear in this film, their argument, basically, is that American corporate agriculture has grown too big for its own good. the corporate giants have taken factory organization as far as it can go, and possibly further. Corn now finds its ways into hundreds of products, it is an extremely efficient system, but it has its problems. It's now far cheaper to live on diet of burgers, chips and sodas than on fresh vegetables and fruits. Americans thus become the epidemic of obesity and diabetes. Also, the massive quantities of antibiotics being pumped into overcrowded livestock has meant that several nasty bacteria have been bred with an immunity to human drugs--the ordinarily harmeless digestive bug which is called E.coli.