British Food Journal Volume 65 Issue 9 1963

Abstract

It is complained of modern youth that they show no respect for people, places or things, but from a dismal disaster of recent weeks it is demonstrated all too clearly that food‐borne disease organisms—Salmonellæ, Shigellæ, Escheriæ, the entro‐viruses and all the rest—have no respect for anyone either. You would at least expect them to leave alone, or only attack in a playful sort of way, one who having reached the afternoon of life has devoted many years to studying and publicising food and nutrition, food‐borne and dietary disease, but, not a bit of it! One of these ungrateful varmints, in all probability one of the Shigellas, sneaked into the editorial alimentary canal, kicked up no end of a commotion there, thoroughly insulted the liver, which thereupon withdrew into sulky silence and refused to function, smote us everywhere with barbs of pain and at first, something quite unpardonable, refused to be quelled by orthodox doses of the appropriate sulpha‐drugs. While the war was on, we, like so many others would do, asked “why should this happen to us?” The answer is, of course, they have no respect for persons.

Citation

(1963), "British Food Journal Volume 65 Issue 9 1963", British Food Journal, Vol. 65 No. 9, pp. 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb011617