Words That Made a Difference
- by KitchenPantryScientist
Congratulations to Michael Moss, of the New York Times, for winning a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for his expose “The Burger That Shattered Her Life.” According to the New York Times, his reporting on the ground beef industry “led the Agriculture Department to review it’s safety procedures and a major slaughterhouse and food retailer to agree for the first time to test raw ingredients that would go into ground beef.”
I remember reading his work and being shocked to learn that many ground beef producers wouldn’t sell to retailers who wanted to retest their meat for E. Coli contamination. The system still isn’t perfect (see my post on ground beef additives,) but at least someone is listening.