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I have no reason to think it isn't true. There is no governmental policing of such violations except after complaints, and even then it is hard to get anyone's attention when it is a matter of healthfulness rather than (human) life and death. The fact that there are options on the list that are free from such corruption (such as Morning Star Farms Veggie Dogs) means that it isn't all bad news.
Food purveyors are generally in business first and foremost for the money. I can readily believe that companies would put profits over other considerations and therefore would cut corners in their attempt to capitalize on demand for vegetarian options. It does prompt us to be more choosy. Whereas we may have been inclined to check out some of these other brands to save some money or to see if they taste a little better, we're going to stick with the brands that we feel would have more to lose if they were adopting a pattern of callous disregard for the concerns of their customers. And it'll probably also decrease our appetite for foods we cannot verify ourselves, until the purveyors make some more overt and reliable claims of accuracy of the ingredients list.
My first reaction was nausea. Second reaction was anger. Third reaction is relief I don't eat those things. Fourth reaction is to demand some kind of oversight. Surely the FDA has--or should have--some kind of regulatory input on this.
There's not enough money to be made regulating it. Believe it or not, the vast majority of government regulation which is not a matter of (human) life and death (either immediate or long-term) is aimed at protecting the "good" companies from being undersold by the "bad" companies. And there's just not enough money involved to warrant the FDA do much about this, at least not yet.
More people buy organic food than buy vegetarian-specific foods, and they're just starting to seriously regulate organic food. As much as folks who clamored for the regulations like to think, it is more likely the companies who make big money selling organic food played a bigger role in the FDA's moves there, helping the organic producers to protect their sales against being undersold or splitting the market with producers who were claiming to be organic but weren't incurring the costs of being organic.
The human DNA wasn't shocking at all, considering the lack of hygiene in food preparers. I'm not surprised that food processing reflects the same lapses.
I would not give this story one seconds worth of credibility. This "study" was allegedly taken by a start up company that is just trying to drum up contributions for their kickstarter campaign. The human DNA is a real non starter, as even a microscopic bit, which has no harmful qualities at all, is unavoidable. It simply means that the product was made by humans!
My experience in research is extensive, and no one undertakes this sort of thing w/o adequate funding and accreditation, both of which are missing on this company. Why on earth would someone believe a study from someone that has zero past studies and absolutly no credentials at all? The link above has another link to their website, and it is the usual amateur hype w/ no scientific basis whatsoever, and no information on the study protocols. Please don't worry about any of this. It is just not so.
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