Tag Archives: listeria

Business/Economics, U.S.

U.S. Food Crisis: “..food shortages….it’s gonna be real.”-Joe Biden. Hell, the people of the U.S. have been struggling with food shortages for more than 2 decades!!! 

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main stream news links announcing United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls as of 02 April 2022:

Peanut butter recalled due to being contaminated with pieces of steel!

Chocolate eggs recalled due to being contaminated with tree bark!

Salad dressings, salad kits, sauces, noodles and pasta recalled due to being contaminated with plastics!

Pancake mix sold at Walmarts recalled due to contamination with parts from a tool used in the pancake mix production line!

3.74-million bottles of Airborne Gummies vitamins now recalled due to eye injuries?

Time to Drive Out Hunger with the annual Harvest Regional Food Bank Golf Tournament (it’s become, like, a regular thing).

ALASKA:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher B. Dennis, 10MAR2022.

Is the U.S. Army hording food in Alaska? This is what they call an Intermediate Staging Base for food and fuel, near Fort Greely.

ARIZONA: Industrial farm recalls ‘sweetened’ strawberries for containing a chemical preservative that it forgot to list on the ingredient label!

ARKANSAS: Dollar Tree recalls all products, including food, after discovering more than one thousand rats in their warehouse!

CALIFORNIA: Industrial farm recalls mushrooms sold across the country for being contaminated with disease!

CONNECTICUTT: Fourteen Kiwanis clubs joined forces to package 27-thousand meals for hungry residents!

FLORIDA: 11th Annual Outrun Hunger 5K in Hollywood Beach (11 years and people are still struggling with lack of food).

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Gabriel B. Kotico, 22MAR2022.

During the week of 20-25MAR2022, U.S. Navy sailors assisted the Feeding Tampa Bay event.

GEORGIA:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Alec Kramer, 16MAR2022.

USN sailors volunteer to help stock a food pantry in Savannah, 16MAR2022.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Zachary D. Behrend, 07MAR2022.

USN sailors volunteer to operate a mobile food pantry in  Saint Mary’s, 07MAR2022.

HAWAII: Homesteadin’ Hawai’i discusses U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Junior’s admission that his sanctions against Russia will cause a food crisis everywhere, including the U.S.:

KANSAS: 27th annual Take a Swing at Hunger golf tournament (27 years of trying to end hunger in the U.S.).

Liberty Fruit company issues recall after government testing found a fruit sample tested positive for Salmonella!

MICHIGAN: Goshen Prepping ranks the supposed official Mormon one year stockpile of food list as a “crazy” fail, as it is heavy on grains and sugars, extremely low on water, and zero meats, fruits or vegetables (grains don’t count as vegetables):

MINNESOTA: 13th annual Empty Bowls food rally in Eagan (13 years and people a re still struggling with food shortage).

MISSOURI: 80s ToyHunter checks her local Walmart for possible food shortage and price increases on 23MAR2022:

NEW HAMPSHIRE: What is ConVal End 68 Hours of Hunger?

NEW JERSEY: Move For Hunger and Altair Global renewed their partnership to fight hunger across the United States.

For the first time in U.S. history, pet foods made by a New Jersey based company are now banned by the FDA for disease ridden dog food!

Somerset County Department of Health warning that school lunch milk is contaminated a peroxyacetic sanitizer, after 25 children were hospitalized!

NEW YORK: 30th annual National Association of Letter Carrier’s #StampOutHunger Food Drive (30 years of trying to end hunger in the U.S.).

Fruit & veg sold at local grocery chain recalled to being contaminated with disease!

NYC-ers are urged to prep for Biden’s Russia sanctions caused food crisis:

SOUTH CAROLINA: South Carolina Retailers Association donates a paltry $120-thousand to help feed hungry people.

TENNESSEE: Nonprofit Hunger First gets evicted by Kingsport Housing & Redevelopment Authority, has list of police recorded complaints that number in the thousands over the past five years.

VIRGINIA: Doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU said they’re seeing between 18% and 20% of patients who are facing food insufficiency!

Perhaps the increase in people going to the children’s hospital for malnutrition is because for the past two years the Arlington Food Assistance Center halted their food operations, supposedly to protect people from The Pandemic!

Washington DC: Senators use Biden’s Russia sanctions caused food crisis to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to relax regulations governing the agricultural industry.

U.S. Food Crisis, June 2021:  “EXPONENTIALLY BIGGER”, “GHOSTS IN THE LAND.”

Food Crisis, March 2019: “NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY”

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Global Food Crisis: Killer Cantaloupe, given away in Idaho

The number of people sick and dying from cantaloupe contaminated with Listeria could hit record levels in the United States.  In Idaho they were given away to the public after a grocery distributor decided they were not ripe enough to sell.

So far 16 people have died, and 56 people are sick across the country.  The cantaloupe are from Colorado, but not all are labeled, so the CDC says if you’re not sure where it came from don’t eat it.

At the end of August 43,000 pounds of the cantaloupe were shipped to southeast Idaho.  They were considered too ripe to sell and were donated to the public between August 28 and September 2.

Jensen Farms in Colorado says it shipped cantaloupes to 25 states.  But, the FDA says illnesses have been discovered in several states that are not on the shipping list.  The FDA has reversed an earlier statement about the fruit being shipped to Europe. They now say none of the cantaloupe left the U.S.

Listeria is more deadly than salmonella and E. coli.  The bacteria can grow at room temperatures and even in your refrigerator. It can linger long after the source of the contamination is gone, people should clean and sanitize any surfaces the killer cantaloupe might have touched.

Symptoms of Listeria can show up as soon as three days after eating the contaminated fruit, or as long as 70 days later.  Symptoms could include fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, convulsions, diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms.