Phil Gramm Quotes

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.

The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning are never properly diagnosed.

The nature of food processing had changed substantially in America. Much of it owed to corresponding changes in food packaging and the logistics for faster shipping. The scope of outbreak from foodborne illness no longer has a clear geographic boundary.

The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

The importance of recalls is to show that contaminated meat is getting out the door. And when you look at these recalls, in many ways the most disturbing thing about these recalls is how little of the meat actually winds up back at the plant.

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger.

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

We remain very confident in the safety of U.S. beef.

Lebanese Consumers Learn They Are Eating Shit.

Let me say this: Camel is delicious, but when handled improperly, it's rank.

I've been in the emergency room for food poisoning.

It is impossible to insure that there is a zero percent chance of any kind of foodborne illness anytime anyone eats anywhere.

Unless people die from it, a little diarrhea isn't going to stop us from having our live fish.

I am deeply sorry that people got sick from eating at our restaurants. It's the worst thing that can happen.

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.