Chapter 9, "What's in the Meat"

1 Compared to several decades ago, how common are food-related illnesses today? Today, more than 200,000 people are sicken from food borne disease each day. 900 hospitalized, and 14 die. (That's insane! Compared to decades ago, that is an incredible increase. Why are we doing this to ourselves?)

2 How has the centralization of food production influenced the spread of food-related illnesses? Because we get most of our beef from just a few companies, if one of them get infected with E. coli, then that could be more than 1/4 of our meat supply infected. This centralization of food production causes the spreading of bacteria to be mass effective.

5 What was the first national hamburger chain & what did it do to try to change the image of the hamburger? The first national hamburger chain was White Castle. They tried to change the image of the hamburger by placing the grill in view of the costumers, boasting that the meat was delivered fresh twice a day, and their name indicated purity. The company even went so far as to sponsor an experiment where a med student lived 13 weeks only on hamburgers and water.