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25% of Chicken Allowed To Have Salmonella | Los Angeles Times (lemmy.ml)
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Source: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-10-30/salmonella-is-widespread-in-ground-poultry-the-usda-knows-it-and-does-nothing-to-stop-it

Clip from an article that says: "The report also suggests that the federal government’s standards for acceptable levels of salmonella are unduly high, and potentially put American poultry consumers at risk. For ground chicken, the USDA allows 25% of samples at a plant to be contaminated. For ground turkey, 13.5%. Chicken parts should not exceed 15.4% of samples contaminated, while the number is 9.8% for whole chickens. “I don’t know, but seems common sense to me that if you allow for a lot of salmonella, a lot of people are going to get sick,” said Bill Marler, an attorney with Marler Clark, a national food safety law firm."
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[–] 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Essentially I am contrasting it with Canadian supply managed chicken (which is one thing the USA has been long trying to make Canada give up), which allows...

  • smaller flocks that can more easily manage biosecurity
  • an enforced ban on growth hormones
  • less of a stranglehold from the meatpackers
  • avoids a race to the bottom for quality to compete on price, meaning stable prices and consistent quality
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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sure it's worse in the US, but that's not saying a lot. The meat, dairy, egg, etc. industries aren't that much rosier in Canada or anywhere in the world

    There's still plenty of factory farming Canada, practices like Gestation Crates are still dominant at 70% of pig farms in Canada, there's an active ongoing lawsuit about Ontario's ag-gag laws at the Canadian Supreme court right now, etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    and consistent quality

    Kinda wild that most store-bought chicken doesn't taste good at all. At least it's not making us sick. 😄

    I don't diss supply mgmt. Just personal taste opinion. I think supply mgmt is very important for us and its benefits are obvious.

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