IS YOUR FOOD SAFE?

How Safe Is Your Food?

DO YOU eat three meals a day?  If so, by the time you are 70 years old, you will have consumed over 75,000 meals. For a typical European, that will mean eating-among other things-some 10,000 eggs, 5,000 loaves of bread, 100 sacks of potatoes, 6 sides of beef, and 2 sheep. Does all that eating amount to a chore?  Far from it!  How we relish hearing such expressions as "enjoy your meal" or "guten Appetit" or "bon appetite?! The head of a cooking school went so far as to say:  "Food is the essence of life.'

Most of the time, we may tend to take it for granted that the food we consume is wholesome and healthful. But if just one of those 75,000 meals were to contain something harmful, we  could get seriously ill. Can we be sure that what we eat is safe? (Not in my opinion) These days, more and more people seem to have doubts on that score. In some countries food safety has become a major concern. Why? 

Next time: IS YOUR FOOD SAFE? -Causes of Concern

From the AWAKE! magazine, 2001