The power of deregulation is literally killing people.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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Next time this happens under RFK's tenure as secretary of HHS, there won't be a recall. There wouldn't even be a warning. They'll just stay on shelves, hospitalizing and killing even more people.
LoL! I'm a Pro Life Republican and January can't come SOON ENOUGH! Once Trump is in Office I won't have to HEAR about ANY of this (even though it'll be Happening MORE Frequently because of Lack of Regulations! I just won't HEAR about it because it'll be ILLEGAL to Mention!)!
Ugh, talk about a bad way to go. I once got food poisoning that needed a trip to the hospital, which is what ecoli is. I needed 2 units of water. Fortunately I'm not at risk so it cleared up fine with some antibiotics. But sitting yourself to death, while it sounds funny, is actually kinda awful.
Stomach pain can be easily some of the worst pain.
Shitting*
This type of stuff is only going to get worse in the next four years.
Good. The American people wanted this. Unregulated and unceasing capitalism will surely not kill thousands.
A thin majority of the Americans who voted wanted this.
Absolutely. These companies need oversight.
States could create their own FDA when the federal government stop doing their job.
Could they though? From the looks of things the next Trump term is going to be Calvinball where only oligarchs get to make rules. If it cuts into the bottom line of some Trump crony, would it really be allowed?
The federal government isn't omnipotent, they'd have to send federal agent to physically stop the state from enforcing their own laws. With all the mass deportation trumps planning, I doubt they have enough manpower.
Imagine if MAGAts are in control of the regulatory agencies.
Oh wait... don't have to imagine
Coming soon™ 2025
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As much as I agree with the sentiment, this strikes me as similar to when MAGAts would post pictures of empty store shelves during COVID and would say it’s what Biden’s America would look like. We all laughed because they were literally pictures of Trump’s America.
I understand that Trump is going to gut federal agencies but…this is happening right now. Under Biden’s watch.
And it's still, for the moment, a screw-up. Something that slipped through the cracks. Deregulation means not even trying to stop it anymore, so it'll be normal. Or, one layer of protection will be gone.
Well, they were organic alright. All natural shit fertilizer.
"Well, they were organic alright. All natural shit fertilizer."
Doesn't work that way. Even if the fields were fertilized with manure, they are done so long before planting - it's literally in the National Organic Program regulations that certified organic farms are required to follow. It's also just common practice anyway. Because duh, root vegetables.
The main and pretty much only source of contamination is in the harvesting, processing, and handling. Not just people but equipment like conveyor belts. For example, "baby carrots" are almost never grown small but big carrots cut up by machines, which -no surprise- are easily contaminated.
Dang I just bought some onions.
It's ok to eat them if you cook them. Maybe make yourself some delicious caramelized onions!
This is not entirely true. E. coli can produce heat-stable enterotoxins that will still make you sick even after cooking/killing the microbe. Probably best to toss or at least wash them before using.
Edit: assuming they're from one of the listed brands and match the recall window.
Wait... doesn't everyone wash their produce before using it?
For the most part, but definitely not everyone. Many people lack awareness about where food comes from in general, not to mention basic food safety practices. It wouldn't surprise me if folks who mostly buy prepackaged produce and know little about farming would assume their produce is clean enough from the store.
My water has lead in it
Have you considered filtration? There are even pitchers you can use if you don't want something more permanent to install.
So the people who died from the carrots didn't cook them?
Who cooks baby carrots?
So despite having heavy restrictions regarding taking foodstuffs on flights causing mass inconvenience, they don't really do the simple work of sending random samples of packed stuff for lab testing? Meaning that buying stuff in a packet, while more expensive than buying from a street peddler in an unregulated country, is really not safer?
Ok
See, government regulations are just red tape and inefficiency. It's much better if you have to constantly risk death for the sake of more corporate profits.
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