Modern Meat airs again Monday April 22

[Guest guest]

" Modern Meat " Frontline airs again Monday April 22, at

9pm, ch 54 KTEH

 

Modern Meat

 

An overview of the meat industry includes a look at

safety of the meat supply and changes that have been

made with regard to how meat is produced and inspected

 

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more info

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/

 

It's as American as apple pie and

vastly more popular.

 

Despite new federal safety

regulations,

more than 100

million pounds of meat has been

recalled since 1998

due to suspected bacterial

contamination. And just

last summer, the nation's largest meat

processor had

to recall 500,000 pounds of beef

contaminated with

e.coli bacteria from seventeen states.

 

How much does the average American

know about the beef

they're eating? Have dramatic changes

in the U.S. meat

industry compromised the overall

safety of American

beef? And are the new federal

regulations enough to

guarantee the safety of the meat we

eat?

 

FRONTLINE explores these and other

questions in

 

PBS (check local listings). Through

interviews with

current and former U.S. Department of

Agriculture

officials, meat inspectors, food

safety experts, and

industry representatives, the one-hour

documentary

reveals how today's

highly-industrialized meat

business has fundamentally changed the

composition of

the typical American burger, causing

some to fear the

spread of serious -- and even deadly

-- bacteria. The

program also explores the powerful

U.S. meat

industry's attempts to resist certain

government

regulations aimed at preventing

contaminated meat from

ending up in supermarkets and fast

food chains across

America.

 

 

 

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