听电影学英语-食品公司 06(在线收听

  [00:01.30]A fast-food nightmare may be getting worse. 快餐的噩梦还可以更可怕
  [00:05.98]A two-year-old child died today in Seattle. 今天,西雅图一个2岁儿童死亡
  [00:08.18]And the killer? Tainted meat from Jack In The Box hamburgers. 原因?"惊奇杰克"餐馆的汉堡里被污染的肉
  [00:13.02]for more than 140 tons of ground beef. 超过140吨的碎牛肉
  [00:14.54]Man: A half a million pounds of ground beef-- 50万磅的碎牛肉
  [00:17.86]Man #2: Today, nationwide recalls of Con Agra ground beef. 今天,全国召回康那格拉公司生产的碎牛肉
  [00:18.90]Schlosser: E. coli isn’t just in ground beef now-- 埃舍利希氏大肠杆菌不止在碎牛肉里
  [00:22.22]it’s been found in spinach, apple juice-- 也出现在菠菜和苹果汁里
  [00:24.58]and this is really because of the runoff from our factory farms. 这都是源自工厂式农场的副产品
  [00:31.94]90 confirmed cases of E. coli poisoning. 90宗确诊的埃舍利希氏大肠杆菌中毒病例
  [00:33.62]Central to it all-- raw, bagged spinach. 源头都是包装菠菜
  [00:36.94]Man #3: This is the 20th E. coli outbreak with leafy greens 这是过去10年内第20宗
  [00:39.30]in just the last decade. 蔬菜导致的埃舍利希氏大肠杆菌爆发
  [00:39.98]Schlosser: For years during the Bush administration, 在布什政府执政期间
  [00:41.66]the chief of staff at the USDA 美国的农业部长
  [00:43.82]was the former chief lobbyist 一直由牛肉工业
  [00:47.66]to the beef industry in Washington; 派驻华盛顿的主要说客担任
  [00:49.82]the head of the F.D.A. was the former executive vice president 美国食品及药物管理局的局长
  [00:54.34]of the National Food Processors Association. 曾是全国食品加工业协会的副会长
  [00:57.38]These regulatory agencies 这些监管机构
  [00:59.06]are being controlled by the very companies 已经被那些它们应该监管的
  [01:02.38]that they’re supposed to be scrutinizing. 公司控制在股掌之间了
  [01:03.38]Woman: ConAgra, which recently recalled peanut butter 康那格拉公司最近曾召回
  [01:05.06]contaminated with salmonella, 被沙门氏菌污染的花生酱
  [01:06.06]was aware of problems in its plant two years ago. 其实2年前它已经发现厂房被污染
  [01:10.54]1972年,FDA(Food and Drug Administration) 美国食品药物管理局“主刀” 进行了大约5万次的食品安全检测 而2006年,仅仅做了9164次
  [01:21.62]Schlosser: There’s always been food poisoning. 食物中毒由来已久
  [01:22.98]As more and more technology 当更多的科技
  [01:24.50]is being applied to the production of food, 被用于食品生产过程
  [01:26.66]you would think it would be getting safer, 你可能会期待食品变得更安全
  [01:28.66]not more contaminated. 而不是更危险
  [01:31.86]But the processing plants have gotten bigger and bigger. 但是食品加工厂规模越来越大
  [01:34.70]it’s just perfect for taking bad pathogens 为有害微生物的感染
  [01:38.70]and spreading them far and wide. 和传播提供了极佳环境
  [01:41.86]Woman: The recall of frozen hamburger now includes 被召回的冷藏汉堡肉

  [01:44.38]22 million pounds. 已经累计有2200万磅
  [01:45.22]Enough meat to make a fast-food hamburger 足够为每一个美国成年人
  [01:49.42]for every adult in America is being recalled. 制作一个快餐汉堡了
  [01:52.10]Schlosser: In the 1970s, there were literally thousands 在20世纪70年代
  [01:54.10]of slaughterhouses in the United States. 美国有上千家屠宰场
  [01:55.10]Today we have 13 slaughterhouses 现在我们只有13家
  [01:57.78]that process the majority of beef 负责处理大部分
  [02:01.46]that is sold in the United States. 在美国出售的牛肉
  [02:04.30]The hamburger of today, 今天,一个汉堡
  [02:06.82]it has pieces of thousands of different cattle 里面夹的那块碎牛肉饼
  [02:10.34]ground up in that one hamburger patty. 包含有来自上千只牛的碎肉
  [02:13.50]The odds increase exponentially that one of those animals 这些牛之中的一只感染了有害微生物的可能性
  [02:16.18]was carrying a dangerous pathogen. 呈指数上升
  [02:20.86]It’s remarkable how toothless 当你仔细观察
  [02:23.06]our regulatory agencies are when you look closely at it, 你会发现我们的监管机构是多么无能
  [02:26.58]and that’s how the industry wants it. 食品工业就希望它们是这样
  [02:32.86]华盛顿 让我们来见识美国政府 对待百姓生命的冷血以及袒护大公司的官僚做派
  [02:38.26]Patricia Buck: This is the USDA building up here. 那边就是农业部大楼
  [02:41.14]Did Josh say how much time he thought we’d get? Josh有没有说我们有多长时间 BARBARA KOWALCYK:食品安全倡议者
  [02:45.98]- Five minutes. - Five minutes. -5分钟吧 -5分钟
  [02:46.82]Well, maybe as much as 15. Got to be on time for that meeting. 嗯,也许有15分钟,一定要准时去见面
  [02:51.50]- It starts a 4:00. - Okay. -4点钟开始 -好的
  [02:54.34]So if I start going like that 当我开始这样做
  [02:56.86]or start shuffling papers, it’s time. I know, it’s time. 或者把纸张乱叠在一起, 就是说时间到了,我知道,时间到了 PATRICIA BUCK:食品安全倡议者 BARBARA的母亲
  [02:58.34]Thank you! Thank you. 谢谢!谢谢
  [03:05.22]Kowalcyk: I’m a registered Republican. 我是一个注册的共和党人
  [03:07.38]I’ve always been fairly conservative. 一直以来都相当保守
  [03:09.38]I never thought I would be doing this 我不敢想像我会做这样的事
  [03:11.74]and I certainly never thought I would be 我也不敢想像我会和我妈妈
  [03:13.74]working so closely with my mom. 一起工作
  [03:15.74]We go this way? Okay. - Yes, we go this way. 我们走这边?好的 -是,走这边
  [03:18.26]Made a mistake-- I think that’s the way we want to go. 走错了,我想我们该走那边
  [03:19.94]Kowalcyk: My mom and I, our relationship has 我和妈妈的关系
  [03:24.94]taken on a whole new dimension. 已经上升到一个新的层面了
  [03:26.46]2421? 2421. 2421房间? 2421房间
  [03:30.14]Here we are. 我们到了
  [03:37.86]- Hi. - Hello. -你好 -你好
  [03:38.86]- How are you? - I’m Pat. -你好吗? -我叫帕蒂

  [03:41.18]- Hi, Pat. - Barb Kowalcyk. -帕蒂,你好 -我是芭博?科瓦希克
  [03:43.86]- Hi, Barb. - DeGette: After the first big push -芭博,你好 -在第一次施加压力
  [03:45.54]to establish food standards, people just got complacent. 以求建立食品安全制度之后,人们开始松懈了
  [03:49.06]We reduced funding for the FDA. 我们减少了食品及药物管理局的资金投入
  [03:53.26]We’ve relied increasingly 我们越来越依赖于
  [03:56.26]on self-policing for all of these industries. 食品工业的自我约束
  [03:58.58]And now we just have, really, 结果这个系统
  [04:01.94]lost our system. 现在终于失控了
  [04:03.78]You’re really one of the champions on the hill 你的确是促进食品安全的先行者之一
  [04:08.62]for food safety and it’s a very important cause. 食品安全是很重要的事务
  [04:11.30]It’s very personal to me and my family. 这是关乎我和我的家庭的事情
  [04:14.66]Our food safety advocacy work started six years ago 我们6年前开始食品安全的宣传工作
  [04:19.34]when my two-and- a-half-year-old son Kevin 因为那时我2岁半的儿子凯文
  [04:21.70]was stricken with E. coli 0157:h7 感染了O157-H7型埃舍利希氏大肠杆菌
  [04:26.02]and went from being a perfectly healthy 一个英俊的小男孩
  [04:27.54]beautiful little boy-- 就这样告别人世
  [04:30.06]and I have a small picture with me today 我今天带来了一张照片
  [04:33.42]that was taken two weeks before he got sick. 是他患病前2周拍的
  [04:35.90]He went from that to being dead in 12 days. 他在12天之内就病死了
  [04:45.78]In July 2001, 2001年7月
  [04:48.30]our family took a vacation. 我们全家去度假
  [04:48.78]Had we known what was in store for us, 如果我们知道家里有什么在等待我们
  [04:50.66]we would have never gone home. 我们绝不会回家

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