Seems like the Morrisville students are now part of the nationwide recall of tainted beef products.
However, the best part of the article are the four (at present) comments posted by readers.
Schools in Bucks part of beef recall
The state Agriculture Department identified six Bucks County school systems among 196 in Pennsylvania that have received recalled beef from a California packing plant.
The Pennsbury, Bensalem, Bristol Township, Morrisville and Quakertown Area public school districts and the Woods Schools in Langhorne received recalled products under the National School Lunch program, according to the state. Also on the list of nearby districts: Philadelphia, Abington and Lower Merion.
The state is urging officials at the schools to check their supplies and follow recall instructions if any of the meats are in storage. Agriculture officials noted Tuesday there is "very low risk to human health" in the recall of products from the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packaging Co. of Chino, Calif. The company voluntarily recalled 143 million pounds of raw and frozen beef products on Sunday.
Information on the recall can be found at www.fsis.usda.gov on the Web.
February 19, 2008 10:15 PM
Comments To This Article:
* Fleura - How could this happen????
(02/19/2008 )
These are our children, our future, who have received this recalled product.
??Recalled as a precaution?? I know of no business that would choose to loose that much money as a precaution. THe typical response is - cross your fingers and hope that this goes away without incident - I am a teacher in one of the effected schools and saw many sick children over the past 2 weeks. Some classrooms were half empty.
?? Just a precaution?? Who are they kidding?
* David Evan - Thank free market economics without controls
(02/19/2008 )
Thank free market economics without controls for the state of the economy and the compromises on our safety and well being. Next time, think before you vote.
* - Fleura
(02/19/2008 )
Fleura, if you're really a teacher, I'm more frightened by your misuse of "effected" than the beef recall. It should be "affected". Sheesh.
* - Smitty
(02/19/2008 )
Fleura- "lose", not "loose". You ARE a teacher!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Plus, that teacher is so pessimistic. "Some classrooms were half empty." That means they were half full.
What is most laughable is that the recall "affects" beef products dating back to Feb 1, 2006! And this teacher only noticed sick children and half empty classrooms over the last two weeks??? Where has she been for the past 24 months?
Worob's Razor says that the most complicated solution involving conspiracies and schemes is normally right; therefore, I would have to assume that most of those children came down with a variant of Mad Cow Disease; rather than being out of school because we are in the middle of flu season.
Do you mean Human Spongiform Encephalopathy? Surely not!!! I just wanted an excuse to write that out.
Citing William of Occam in the same sentence as Councilman Worob is sacriledge, even when it's as spurious as is here.
Y'know, the thing about the Courier blog comments is this: They've got to be editing out a majority of the good peoples' comments because I almost never find Occam's Razor citations there.
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