When an innocent child is in harms way because of unsafe processing of meat, that is where the line should be drawn. It all starts with the feeding of a cow. A cow is made to eat and graze on grass, but of course the Food Industry found a faster and cheaper way to grow the cows to produce more meat. Cows are now being fed corn for two main reasons: its cheap and it makes the cows fat, leading it to produce more meat. The only issue with this idea is that too much intake of corn will eventually infect the cows with Escherichia coli or also known as E. Coli. “E. Coli is a member of a large group of bacterial germs that inhabit the intestinal tract of humans and other warm-blooded animals” (Clark 1). When E. Coli exists inside of an animal and then the animal is slaughtered and processed into the food that you pick up off of the shelf. Little Kevin Michael Kowalcyk was stricken with E. Coli that was in a hamburger that he ate. At the age of one two years old, Kevin went from being a healthy normal child to being dead within a matter or twelve days. This is the result of the food industries need for money. If this story doesn’t show that the industry is beyond twisted, then nothing will. 700 were reported ill and four children were reported dead due to E. Coli outbreaks. When things like this happen, recalls of the meat are demanded. Recalls were made in 1998, 2001, and 2002. The recall in 2002, twenty-two million pounds of meat was recalled nationwide. That is enough meat to feed about every person in America a hamburger. As time has gone on, bacterias were also found in a variety of foods from greens to peanut butter to jello. Deadly bacterias being found in such basic foods is scary but encouraging to be cautious.
In the link that I posted below, the story of Kevin's death is told by his very own mother. She tells about all of the suffering that her son had to go through and the cause the this suffering, the corrupt Food Industry.
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