Haley Tellesbo- 4 Annotated Bibliographies

Harris, Gardiner. "Senate Bill on Food Safety Is Stalled." New York Times. 18 Sept. 2010. Web. 13 Oct. 2010.

This article argued that it is in fact the governments responsibility to prevent contaminated food from entering the food system. State laws should provide protection and currently they are not. Shirley Almer died over two years ago due to contaminated peanut butter and her case is finally being heard. This shows how long it takes the Senate to approve bills. This article will be great for my research since it displays currently what is being done by our government in terms of food safety.


Neuman, William. "Beef Recall Intensifies Fight for Tighter Control." New York Times. 3 Sept. 2010. Print.

In this Article the author's argues that recent strands of a rare type of e-coli found in ground beef for the first time are now fueling the debate to keep the deadly bacteria out of the meet supply. Three people were sickened from the hamburger that came from Cargill Meat Solutions. The debate stems from whether or not rarer forms of e-coli should be considered illegal. Some people believe that instead of giving the rare forms of e-coli the illegal status they should instead focus time and money on the preventative measures with advances in science and data to protect consumers. This article is important to see the two sides of what people have to say about regulating food safety.


Wu, Angela. "Are Free-Range Eggs Safer?" Newsweek 25 Aug. 2010. Web.

The argument in this article is that there is not a lot of evidence that buying local is better even though factory farming has many problems. Buying local is hard to do when 95% of Americans buy their eggs from just 192 farms, which has decreased from 2,500 in 1987. The recent salmonella outbreak in eggs linked to two Iowa farms has now turned to a nationwide recall of over half a billion eggs. The bigger question here is what happened to our food system to allow this? Salmonella can be found on small organic farms so large intustrial farms are not the only ones to blame. This article is important to my research because it shows that any farm can have a food-borne illness outbreak.


Jalonick, Mary Clare. "Investigators: Egg Company Knew of Salmonella Outbreak." Time 14 Sept. 2010. Time. Web.

In this article the author argues that the egg company responsible for the salmonella outbreak was in fact aware of the positive results of the bacteria in 2008. Investigators of the Wright County Egg Company said they found reports of 426 positive cases of salmonella between the years 2008-2010. The owner of the company, Austin DeCostner, is scheduled to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. No deaths have been tied to this specific salmonella outbreak but it is the largest salmonella outbreak since the 1970's with more than 1500 people sick. This article is useful because it shows yet another side in the recent egg contamination story. When a food-borne illness occurs there can be many reasons behind the outbreak.