Investigation shows 'next time' is likely

Gut Check

While our attention is focused on farm-to-table food safety and disease surveillance once we have gotten sick, the biological question of why we got sick is all but ignored.

By adding the biological question of why an individuals natural defenses failed to the intellectual concepts of testing, detection, and surveillance, we correctly insert personal responsibility into our national strategy and more importantly, draw attention to the much larger public health crisis, of which illness from foodborne pathogens is only a symptom: our sick, leaky guts.

By inserting personal responsibility and some basics of host-pathogen germ warfare into the multi stakeholder strategy for addressing foodborne threats, we may start to realize that we may not simply be experiencing a mathematical rise in foodborne illness as a result of sloppy farming and poor government oversight, but rather a tectonic-like shift in our nutritional landscape that has opened the pathogens door just enough for us to glimpse the future of human suffering. Just the thought makes my gut ache.
Jeff Leach
jeff@paleobioticslab.com

Why are mexicans sending us vegetables that they use for toilet paper? I hope they all get hot as#es from the hot peppers they use as charmin.....