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in their manure
all day long.
So if one cow has it,
the other cows
will get it.
When they get
to the slaughterhouse,
their hides are
caked with manure.
And if the slaughterhouse
is slaughtering
how do you keep
that manure
from getting
onto those carcasses?
And that's how the manure
gets in the meat.
And now this thing
that wasn't in the world
is in the food system.
A fast-food nightmare
may be getting worse.
A two-year-old child died
today in Seattle.
And the killer? Tainted meat from
Jack In The Box hamburgers.
A nationwide recall today
for more than 140 tons
of ground beef.
A half a million pounds of ground beef--
Today, nationwide recalls
of Con Agra ground beef.
E. coli isn't just in ground beef now--
it's been found
in spinach, apple juice--
and this is really because of the runoff
from our factory farms.
of E. coli poisoning.
Central to it all--
raw, bagged spinach.
This is the 20th
E. coli outbreak with leafy greens
in just the last decade.
For years during
the Bush administration,
the chief of staff
at the USDA
was the former
chief lobbyist
to the beef industry
in Washington;
the head of the F.D.A. was
the former executive vice president
of the National
Food Processors Association.
These regulatory agencies
are being controlled
by the very companies
that they're supposed
to be scrutinizing.
ConAgra, which recently
recalled peanut butter
contaminated
with salmonella,
was aware of problems
There's always been food poisoning.
As more and more
technology
is being applied
to the production of food,
you would think
not more contaminated.
But the processing plants
have gotten bigger and bigger.
it's just perfect
for taking bad pathogens
and spreading them
far and wide.
The recall of frozen
hamburger now includes
Enough meat to make
a fast-food hamburger
is being recalled.
In the 1970s,
there were literally thousands
of slaughterhouses
in the United States.
Today we have
that process
the majority of beef
that is sold
in the United States.
The hamburger of today,
it has pieces of thousands
of different cattle
ground up in that
one hamburger patty.
The odds increase exponentially
that one of those animals
was carrying
a dangerous pathogen.
It's remarkable
how toothless
our regulatory agencies are
when you look closely at it,
and that's how
This is the USDA
building up here.
Did Josh say how much time
he thought we'd get?
- Five minutes.
- Five minutes.
Well, maybe as much as 15.
Got to be on time for that meeting.
- It starts a 4:
00.- Okay.
So if I start
going like that
- or start shuffling papers, it's time.
- I know, it's time.
Thank you!
Thank you.
I'm a registered Republican.
I've always been
fairly conservative.
I never thought
and I certainly never
thought I would be
working so closely
with my mom.
- We go this way? Okay.
- Yes, we go this way.
Made a mistake--
I think that's the way we want to go.
My mom and I,
our relationship has
taken on
a whole new dimension.
Here we are.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- How are you?
- I'm Pat.
- Hi, Pat.
- Barb Kowalcyk.
- Hi, Barb.
to establish food standards,
people just got complacent.
We reduced funding
for the FDA.
We've relied increasingly
on self-policing for all
of these industries.
And now
we just have, really,
lost our system.
You're really one
of the champions on the hill
for food safety and it's a very
important cause.
It's very personal
to me and my family.
Our food safety advocacy
when my two-and-
a-half-year-old son Kevin
was stricken
with E. coli 0157:h7
and went from being
a perfectly healthy
beautiful little boy--
and I have a small picture
with me today
that was taken two weeks
before he got sick.
He went from that
to being dead in 12 days.
In July 2001,
our family took
a vacation.
Had we known what was
in store for us,
we would have
never gone home.
We ended up eating three hamburgers
before he got sick.
We started to see blood
in Kevin's diarrhea,
so we took him
to the emergency room.
And they said,
"We've gotten
the culture back
from Kevin's stool,
and he has
hemorrhagic E. coli."
They came in
and informed us
that Kevin's kidneys were
starting to fail.
Kevin received
He was not allowed
We had these
little sponges
and we were allowed to dip that
into a cup of water
and then give him that.
He bit the head off
of one of them.
You've never seen
someone beg.
He begged for water.
It was all he could talk about.
They wouldn't let anybody
bring any beverage into the room
because-- I mean, it was
all he would talk about,
was... water.
I don't know if he knew
what was happening to him...
and I hope--
I don't know.
To watch
to dead in 12 days--
it was just unbelievable
that this could happen
from eating food.
What was kind of adding
more insult to injury--
it took us almost
two or three years
and hiring
a private attorney
to actually find out that
we matched a meat recall.
On August 1st, my son was already
in the hospital.
They did an E. coli test
at the plant that was positive.
They didn't end up
recalling that meat
until August 27th,
If we have some more hearings--
which I'm sure we will--
I'd love to have
you come and testify.
- Keep fighting.
- Thank you. You too.
You never get over
the death of your child.
You find a new normal.
- This way?
- Yes.
- We're going this way?
- Mm-hmm.
We put faith in our government
to protect us,
and we're not
being protected
at a most basic level.
In 1998, the USDA implemented
microbial testing
for salmonella
and E. coli 0157:h7.
The idea was that if a plant
repeatedly failed these tests,
that the USDA would
shut the plant down
because they obviously had an ongoing
contamination problem.
The meat
and poultry associations
immediately took
the USDA to court.
The courts
basically said
the USDA didn't have
the authority
to shut down the plants.
What it meant was that
you could have a pound
of meat or poultry products
that is a petri dish
of salmonella
and the USDA
really can't do anything about it.
A new law was introduced
in direct response
and this law became known
as Kevin's Law.
It seems like such a clear-cut,
common sense type thing.
- How are things going?
- Fine fine.
We've been working for six years
and it still
hasn't passed.
I sense that
there may be
an opportunity--
an enhanced opportunity--
to get this signed
into law this time.
I think that from the standpoint
of the consumer,
a lot of people would
support the idea
if they could be guaranteed
a higher standard
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