Food recalls

Well, my friend just posted a link to a peanut butter recall in the US.... this on top of the beef recall in Canada is concerning to me, you know, as a chunky woman...

I mean, the beef, that's ok... I can deal with not eating beef... yes, sure I will miss it, but I am more of a chicken kind of girl anyway.  Beef has to be cooked just right and it seldom is, so I can live without it.  If not for bacon and sausages, ok, and ribs... I could live without pork... oh wait... there's porkchops, smothered in mushroom gravy, cooked perfectly, the gravy on rice or patatos.... *oh wait, i'm drooling here*... where was I?  Right... Ok, so I would have to keep pork too, though I could probably live without turkey, and seafood, though I do love sushi... wait.... no.... not doing without seafood either... but, I could LIVE without it... turkey is a take it or leave it food for me, and since the only other poultry I have eaten is duck and chicken, I could even do without duck... just give me chicken... and pork...

however, this peanut butter recall in the US is a little frightening, one, because I shop in the US, and that would just plain piss me off, and two because EVERYONE who can does so too, which means, pot luck dinners could turn out to be a fiasco, everyone having to list all ingredients to ensure nobody gets botulism or whatever you are going to get... If you look at this recall, it is recalling EVERYTHING... like so much stuff.... not just peanut butter, and peanut products, but it looks like the FDA is simply recalling everything that could possibly be related to a late distant cousin of the nut... sesame seed stuff, gelato (say it ain't so!!! I JUST discovered this stuff) chicken spring rolls, (again, a food i LOVE) tahini...(ok, not a lot positive about that stuff) but even the organic peanut butter...( which leads a person to wonder how they can call it organic, I mean if it IS organic, how would it get infected by NON organic peanuts, unless their MIXING STUFF and charging more... which companies would NEVER do.....but I digress (i do have a habit of this))

What I want to know is... what am I supposed to eat now?  I just cannot see being a vegetarian... unless chicken becomes a vegetable... plus of course the fact that i really don't like a lot of vegetarian stuff, at least not enough to attempt to eat it when a hot dog made of meat is so much better tasting than vegan meatlike dogs... (even the NAME says gross). So, with vegetarianism off the table, OBVIOUSLY veganism isn't going to swing with me... i mean... though i have a vegan friend (coincidentally the same individual who let me know that my food choices are soon to be a thing of the past) and I have willingly tried a vegetarian meal or two, and even enjoyed them, but still, some of that stuff just looks too gross to put in or on my body (not that chicken would look good ON me.... digressing).

i don't eat a terribly large amount of food, so telling me now that i have to take all beef and soon enough, peanut products (OMG, i have become a peanut statistic!!!!  come on people, it's not like i hate people with peanut allergies, they can't help it... but dammit! can't you like live in a bubble so that i can feed my kid's peanut butter fricken sandwhiches (which btw is the ONLY thing the little ahem.... darlings would eat at school...) that said.. i don't take for granted my ability to EAT nuts... and now.... no nuts?!?!?!)

what is the world coming to!!!