Food safety silliness from Fox
Posted: January 17th, 2011 - 9:07am by Doug Powell
Fox News does lots of dumb things. Reprinting food safety nosestretchers from askmen.com is a public health liability.
Among the top 10 food safety tips – which are primarily lifestyle choices, not food safety – is that people should avoid buying ground beef at Whole Foods “unless you watch 
them grind it.”
Whole Foods sucks at food safety, but how the writer got groovy E. coli goggles to see bacteria beyond the horoscope-level of superstition is worthy of scientific investigation.
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