remnant
February 16th, 2006, 09:25 PM
alarming link:http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=4160
In the article about her project, Girl's Science Project May Make You Rethink That Drink Order, we learn that "For this project, Jasmine visited five fast food restaurants near the University of South Florida. She collected ice samples from self-service dispensers inside the restaurants, as well as ice from drinks served through drive-through windows. She also collected samples of toilet water from those restaurants.
She placed the samples into sterile containers and tested them at a lab at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, where she volunteers with a USF professor.
Jasmine found that in four of the five restaurants, the ice that came from the self-serve machines had more bacteria than the toilet water. Three of the five cups of ice from the drive-through windows had more bacteria than the toilet water.
Of the bacteria found in the ice, three out of the five restaurants tested positive for fecal coliform or E. coli, organisms that come from the feces of warm-blooded animals.
Many Third World countries,espescially those inhabited by Mestizos,lack potable water.A friend of mine who caught hepatitus while swimming in the ocean in Mexico told me this was because they let raw sewage run into their drinking watersheds and natural bodies of water(?)
Sanitary safeguards for food and water, as well as a reliable power grid and utility infrastructure are some hallmarks of a stable first world socety.Can America maintain these benchmarks as the demographics devolve in coming generations?
In the article about her project, Girl's Science Project May Make You Rethink That Drink Order, we learn that "For this project, Jasmine visited five fast food restaurants near the University of South Florida. She collected ice samples from self-service dispensers inside the restaurants, as well as ice from drinks served through drive-through windows. She also collected samples of toilet water from those restaurants.
She placed the samples into sterile containers and tested them at a lab at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, where she volunteers with a USF professor.
Jasmine found that in four of the five restaurants, the ice that came from the self-serve machines had more bacteria than the toilet water. Three of the five cups of ice from the drive-through windows had more bacteria than the toilet water.
Of the bacteria found in the ice, three out of the five restaurants tested positive for fecal coliform or E. coli, organisms that come from the feces of warm-blooded animals.
Many Third World countries,espescially those inhabited by Mestizos,lack potable water.A friend of mine who caught hepatitus while swimming in the ocean in Mexico told me this was because they let raw sewage run into their drinking watersheds and natural bodies of water(?)
Sanitary safeguards for food and water, as well as a reliable power grid and utility infrastructure are some hallmarks of a stable first world socety.Can America maintain these benchmarks as the demographics devolve in coming generations?