From Funny or Die, via Grub St.

Abstract: Salmonella enterica is the leading cause of foodborne illness with poultry and poultry products being primary sources of infection. The 2 most common S. enterica serovars associated with human infection are Typhimurium and Enteritidis. However, Kentucky and Heidelburg and the 2 most prevalent serovars isolated from poultry environments.

Do you like to pontificate about organic food, your CSA and the evils of big ag? Then you may feel morally superior to others; you may be a jerk.

Following in the pink slimey mess, the Australian TV program, Today Tonight, proclaimed last night that all sorts of things are being injected into meat and consumers are being ripped off. As the show reports, Australians are massive meat eaters, consuming on average more than 120 kilos of meat and poultry each and every year.

BEIRUT -- A Lebanese expatriate who is an expert on food safety has been brought in from the U.S. to improve food handling processes as part of the response to the expired goods scandal that shook the food industry last month, revealing hundreds of tons of expired food.

Ron Eustice didn't always want to be involved in agriculture. "I was going to be a professional baseball player," said Eustice, who is retiring Oct. 1 after 22 years as the executive director of the Minnesota Beef Council. An International 4-H Youth Exchange trip to Uruguay in 1967-68 charted a new course for the then 21-year-old from Steele County.

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When it comes to social issues I'm a bit of a libertarian hippy. I've looked the part (big bushy beard and longer thinning hair); used to play ultimate frisbee (poorly); and, our first-born was delivered at home. I saw The Dead, after Jerry, but I never really got into Phish. The philosophy I've embraced around food safety is let people do what they want.

New York -- "Pink slime" was almost "pink paste" or "pink goo." The microbiologist who coined the term for lean finely textured beef ran through a few iterations in his head before he decided to send an email about the filler to a co-worker at the U.S. Department of Agriculture a decade ago. Then, the name hit him like heartburn after a juicy burger.