听电影学英语-食品公司 07

　　[00:01.86]We started to see blood in Kevin’s diarrhea, 然后凯文开始腹泻,便中带血

[00:07.18]so we took him to the emergency room. 于是我们把他送到急诊室

[00:08.54]And they said, "We’ve gotten 医生们说

[00:12.06]the culture back from Kevin’s stool, 他的粪便培养物化验结果出来了

[00:15.06]and he has hemorrhagic E. coli." 他患的是出血性埃舍利希氏大肠杆菌感染

[00:19.58]They came in and informed us 他们后来又告诉我们

[00:22.94]that Kevin’s kidneys were starting to fail. 凯文的肾脏功能开始衰竭

[00:25.46]Kevin received his first dialysis treatment. 他接受了第一次的血液透析

[00:30.62]He was not allowed to really drink water. 他不能喝水

[00:33.30]We had these little sponges 我们只能用小块海绵

[00:37.50]and we were allowed to dip that into a cup of water 泡在一杯水里

[00:41.34]and then give him that. 然后把海绵给他

[00:46.70]He bit the head off of one of them. 让他从海绵里吸水

[00:50.86]You’ve never seen someone beg. 你一定没见过谁这样哀求

[00:53.54]He begged for water. It was all he could talk about. 他求我们给他水喝,他只想喝点水

[00:56.42]They wouldn’t let anybody bring any beverage 1 into the room 医生们不允许任何人带饮料进病房

[01:01.10]because-- I mean, it was all he would talk about, 因为,我是说,凯文最想做的就是喝水

[01:04.58]was... water. 只是喝水而已

[01:07.94](waves lapping)

[01:11.14]I don’t know if he knew what was happening to him... 我不知道他能不能了解发生在自己身上的这些事

[01:14.98]and I hope-- I don’t know. 我希望,我真的不知道

[01:19.98]To watch this beautiful child go 一个健康漂亮的儿童

[01:23.66]from being perfectly 2 healthy to dead in 12 days-- 在12天之内急病而亡

[01:24.86]it was just unbelievable 让人难以置信的是

[01:27.86]that this could happen from eating food. 这只是因为他吃了被污染的食物

[01:33.54]What was kind of adding more insult to injury-- 让我们更感到悲伤的是

[01:37.54]it took us almost two or three years 我们差不多花了2到3年

[01:38.58]and hiring a private attorney 还雇了一个私人律师

[01:39.58]to actually find out that we matched a meat recall. 才发现原来我们吃的肉属于被召回的批次

[01:42.26]On August 1st, my son was already in the hospital. 到了8月1日,我儿子已经在住院

[01:47.26]They did an E. coli test at the plant that was positive. 食品公司在厂房检测出了埃舍利希氏大肠杆菌

[01:49.10]They didn’t end up recalling that meat 可是,他们直到8月27日

[01:50.78]until August 27th, 才宣布召回

[01:56.46]16 days after he died. 是他死后16天

[01:57.66]If we have some more hearings-- which I’m sure we will-- 我相信我们会举行更多的听证会,希望到时候

[02:00.82]I’d love to have you come and testify. 你们会来作证

[02:03.34]- Keep fighting. - Thank you. You too. -要继续争取 -谢谢你,也谢谢你

[02:06.50]Kowalcyk: You never get over the death of your child. 对自己孩子的死亡是无法释怀的

　　[02:12.38]- Buck 3: This way? - Yes. -走这边吗? -是的

[02:12.70]- We’re going this way? - Mm-hmm. -我们走这边? -嗯

[02:15.54]Kowalcyk: We put faith in our government 我们相信政府

[02:16.74]to protect us, 会保护我们

[02:20.90]and we’re not being protected 但即使在最基本的层面上

[02:21.42]at a most basic level. 我们都没有得到保护

[02:25.78]In 1998, the USDA implemented 4 microbial testing 自1998年起,美国农业部出台了针对

[02:31.10]for salmonella and E. coli 0157:h7. 沙门氏菌和O157-H7型 埃舍利希氏大肠杆菌的微生物检测制度

[02:37.82]The idea was that if a plant repeatedly failed these tests, 这种制度规定,如果有厂房反覆多次无法通过检测

[02:42.50]because they obviously had an ongoing 5 contamination problem. 要求这个厂房停产

[02:49.34]The meat and poultry 6 associations 肉类和家禽业协会

[02:50.86]immediately took the USDA to court. 马上起诉农业部

[02:52.70]The courts basically said 法庭初步裁定

[02:55.06]the USDA didn’t have the authority 农业部没有权力

[02:56.70]to shut down the plants. 要求厂房停产

[02:58.90]What it meant was that 这就意味着

[03:00.90]you could have a pound of meat or poultry products 你购买的一磅肉类或者家禽制品

[03:04.90]that is a petri dish of salmonella 其实是沙门氏菌的培养皿

[03:09.78]and the USDA really can’t do anything about it. 农业部对此却束手无策

[03:13.62]A new law was introduced in direct response 为了应对这个问题,起草了一个新的法案

[03:17.78]and this law became known as Kevin’s Law. 这个法案被称为"凯文法案"

[03:22.62]凯文法案将会把关闭“持续不断生产污染肉类的工厂” 的权力还给USDA(美国农业部)

[03:31.54]It seems like such a clear-cut, common sense type thing. 法案目的明确,内容也清晰明了

[03:39.38]- How are things going? - Fine fine. -事情进行的怎么样? -不错,还行

[03:41.38]Kowalcyk: We’ve been working for six years 我们努力了6年

[03:42.38]and it still hasn’t passed. 法案还是没有获得通过

[03:44.74]I sense that there may be 我觉得这次有机会

[03:45.42]an opportunity-- an enhanced opportunity-- 而且是很大的机会

[03:48.58]to get this signed into law this time. 让法案获得通过

[03:50.42]I think that from the standpoint of the consumer, 我认为从消费者的角度看来

[03:52.10]a lot of people would support the idea 很多人会支持这种想法

[03:55.30]of paying a little more if they could be guaranteed 通过多付一点点的钱,让自己的食品

[03:58.46]a higher standard of safety. 获得更高的安全保证

[03:59.82]- Kowalcyk: Yeah. - But I also know -对 -不过我也知道

[04:02.66]that there are other players 有其他的人

[04:06.30]- in the food production chain... - Kowalcyk: We know. -食品生产工业的人 -我们知道

[04:08.82]...that tend to worry about that, -对此事感到如坐针毡

[04:09.66]because it’s gonna be seen as an add-on to their costs. 因为这样做会增加他们的成本

　　[04:11.70]I think the advantage here is-- 我想,我们的优势是

[04:15.02]Kowalcyk: Sometimes it does feel like 人们有时的确觉得食品工业

[04:17.54]industry was more protected than my son. 受到的保护比我儿子还要多

[04:21.22]That’s what motivated me to become an advocate. 这就是我投身食品安全宣传事务的原因

[04:25.74]In the past year alone, there have been 仅仅在过去1年里

[04:26.42]a multitude of food-borne illness outbreaks 就有多宗食物导致的疫症爆发

[04:28.42]which have resulted in significant losses. 造成了重大损失

[04:32.26]Clearly our current approach 显然,我们现有的

[04:34.94]to food oversight 7 and protection 监管和保护食品安全的手段

[04:35.94]is not meeting the needs of American families. 还不能满足美国家庭的需求

[04:42.66]It’s really hard for me to tell Kevin’s story. 每次讲述凯文的故事都让我很伤心

[04:51.34]But the only way I’m going to be able 但是,只有把这个故事讲出来

[04:53.34]to prevent it from happening to other people 才可以让其他人的家庭

[04:54.86]is to go out there and speak about it. 避免发生这样的悲剧