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You Can’t “Pink Slime” America Twice: Why ABC News is Struggling to Re-create a Food Safety Scare with Imported Shrimp

admin May 25, 2012 Food, Imports No Comments

Tags: ABC News, Americans, antibiotics, domestic, food safety, imports, Jim Avila, media, pink slime, shrimp

ABS News Shrimp Story

Can you slime American twice? You can try, according to Jim Avila and ABC News. Attempting to re-create its journalistic success from the “pink slime” story, ABC News recently ran a short segment on foreign shrimp and antibiotics, claiming that, in a recent random sampling, trace levels of 3 banned antibiotics were found in imported shrimp. The story, reported by ABC’s Jim Avila (who also reported on “Pink Slime” this year), states that the majority of shrimp consumed in the United States “is raised in … READ MORE

Americans Love Imported Foods but are Too Quick To Blame Them

admin May 23, 2012 Food, Imports No Comments

Tags: antibiotics, automatic detention, Buy American, e coli, FDA, food, how much food is imported, import alert, imports, outbreaks, recalls, red list, River Ranch Fresh Foods, safety, salmonella, statistics

Mousetrap with Cheese

Americans consume an incredible amount of imported foods. For shrimp, over 90% of what we consume is imported, for produce, 35%, and some estimates claim that 20% of the total U.S. food supply is imported.1 Whether it’s caviar or truffles or bananas or cookies, we love our food choices, in season and out, and would be devastated if our imported food supplies suddenly dried up. Yet whenever there is a food safety scare (E. coli, Listeria, Salmonella, antibiotics), some Americans are quick to turn on “foreign foods” … READ MORE

You Can’t “Pink Slime” America Twice: Why ABC News is Struggling to Re-create a Food Safety Scare with Imported Shrimp

Americans Love Imported Foods but are Too Quick To Blame Them

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