Food

The Incredible Inedible Egg

Effing gross:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Food and Drug Administration investigators have found rodents, seeping manure and even maggots at the Iowa egg farms believed to be responsible for as many as 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning.

FDA officials released their initial observations of the ongoing investigations at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms on Monday. The two farms recalled more than half a billion eggs after salmonella illnesses were linked to their products earlier this month.

Whenever I read about discoveries like this, I wonder whether or not the free market would handle it the same way. And the answer is a resounding "not a chance in hell."

ht Ashby