Beef isn’t only food inspection problem

Re: Beef recall a boon to small shops, by Chris Thompson with files from Postmedia News, Oct. 2.

Chicken may be free of E. coli, but a few weeks ago on the TV show Market Place, the staff took 100 chicken samples from various stores.

Seventy per cent of them had two or more antibiotics that had become mutated and stronger. There were only 30 that did not.

This means if we keep eating any meat product, we will have trouble. Unless the health inspection changes for the better, when we are ill antibiotics will soon not help us.

We are now resistant to most of them from eating flesh that is given only to make chicken fatter and bigger. Sick or well, they all get them.

Organic chicken farmers have said they, too, are not completely free of the problem because the food they buy contains some. Where are the health inspectors who are supposed to protect us?

The milk is tainted and probably the eggs from the antibiotic-laden animals. Neither beef nor chicken deserves any applause the way things are right now.

Time for some big changes — but does the government really care to maintain our health enough to inspect the whole business properly?

KATHLEEN ROCKEY, Windsor