{"id":24658,"date":"2019-04-17T20:57:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T01:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24658"},"modified":"2019-04-17T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T01:57:58","slug":"shooting-yourself-in-the-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/04\/17\/shooting-yourself-in-the-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Yourself In The Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"

From<\/a> WaPo<\/strong><\/em>, a spokeswoman for the meat industry shoots herself in the foot while responding to accusations that poultry products may be contaminated with fecal matter:<\/p>\n

KatieRose McCullough, the North American Meat Institute\u2019s director of regulatory and scientific affairs, said it\u2019s important to distinguish between fecal material that is naked to the human eye and the types of pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that the pseudo-medical animal rights group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine doesn\u2019t know the difference between fecal contamination and bacteria on meat products,\u201d McCullough said. \u201cBacteria like E.coli are naturally present in the environment as numerous studies on all types of items from foods to phones, keyboards and toothbrushes have shown. This does not mean any of those items are contaminated with feces.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe someone told her that making cheapshot accusations like that is an effective tactic, but it just raises red flags for me. In fact, it more or less discredits her group – they can’t present a reason, rational argument, so let’s just throw around dumb accusations.<\/p>\n

Another third-rater, and probably a third-rate organization..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From WaPo, a spokeswoman for the meat industry shoots herself in the foot while responding to accusations that poultry products may be contaminated with fecal matter: KatieRose McCullough, the North American Meat Institute\u2019s director of regulatory and scientific affairs, said it\u2019s important to distinguish between fecal material that is naked \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24659,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658\/revisions\/24659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}