Toronto residents and food retailers: Beware of "the egg guy"

I was about to have eggs for breakfast this morning, but then I saw page 2 of The Toronto Star. In an article by Rob Cribb, The Star names six Toronto food vendors facing charges for allegedly selling ungraded eggs, putting their customers at risk of salmonella poisoning.

Cribb interviewed the manager of one of the establishments, who said she never suspected anything was wrong with the eggs. She is quoted by The Star as saying the supplier drives a white cube van and is known to her only as "the egg guy." Who'd have thunk a supplier matching this description would sell anything but top quality eggs?

I recommend you read The Star article, Egg crackdown raises public health concerns, which is online at this link and is on page 2 of the Saturday Star.

Yesterday I lambasted The Star for publishing a story about a Toronto budget committee meeting where The Star quotes Toronto City councillor and budget committee member Doug Ford for telling a protester to "get a job" but fails to mention a protester had threatened Ford. I stand by those comments, because I don't need The Star to get grossly misleading anti-Ford propaganda. I can get press releases from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and other bleeding heart liberals free of charge.

Cribb's article on ungraded eggs is an example of a good Toronto Star article. The Star should do more coverage of Toronto Public Health food safety inspections and give their anti-Ford advocacy a rest. If The Star editors still can't get over the fact that Rob Ford was elected mayor of Toronto and his brother Doug was elected to city council, they should blow off steam in some other way. Or maybe The Star could investigate the twisted logic of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, which is in favour of unionized city workers (whose pay and benefits far exceed the average private sector worker), but against reducing taxes for residents of average income working in the private sector.

I don't care if the Fords cancel Transit City or the vehicle registration tax. I don't care if city garbage collectors who went on strike in 2009 for the right to bank 18 sick days a year lose their jobs to the private sector. I want to know more about restaurants and markets selling bad food.