During my chapter 9 reading process I came across an issue that caught my attention, the extreme number of people getting sick by a foodborne disease. American families have meat as the prior dish on the table, but most of the time these families are unaware of the internal meat composition. According to Schlosser, page 195 “every day in the United States, roughly 200,000 people are sickened by foodborne diseases, 900 hospitalized, and fourteen die.” These people most likely didn’t know that they were consuming infected meat, therefore continued to eat it through the days. This arises a problem because us, as meat consumers, might have just eaten a piece of meat that was infected by in this case a low percentage of foodborne, and might not have a severe negative consequence in our health, but families around the USA have to face this probability every time they wish to eat meat.
A positive outcome of this problem is that it may bring distrust when it comes to buying meat from any company, but unfortunately people might realize this issue when the problem is directly related to them, friends or relatives. I make this statement because sadly people know about the existence of meat diseases and yet are still buying the products from the same company or don’t take time to research their new company of choice. Further complications may also arise from this intoxicated meats, According Schlosser on page 196, “There is a strong evidence not only that the incidence of food-related illness has risen in the past few decades, but also that the lasting health consequences of such illnesses are far more serious than was previously believed.” This quote is very important because it shows that illnesses’ consequences do have a greater negative outcome in the future, although we might not feel it at the present time. To conclude people should be more cautions when it comes to meat consumption, keeping in mind that there are diseases out there waiting to be consumed by us.
