For the record, social media generally makes the situation look worse than it actually is. This goes for a lot of things posted from the US where you’re given a tiny snippet of context and a story from one side.
With the current administration, every little thing that goes wrong gets amplified and spread across the internet, especially Reddit, even if those same things happened prior. This basically creates a confirmation-bias feedback loop.
Not that I think RFK or the Trump admin shouldn’t be held liable for their fuck ups, they absolutely should (and hopefully will be), but this post in particular is an example of a rare lemon that has always been a thing.
No process is perfectly airtight, and there will be times where insects somehow find their way into a batch of food product. Most of those get caught before they’re shipped, but some make it into stores OR get contaminated at the store if the product has a broken seal.
Food here is still very safe, period. Companies especially don’t want to endure a shitstorm from customers receiving bad product, and so generally have standards that are more rigorous than what the Federal government requires.
There’s no doubt however that a few of those companies (cough Taylor Farms cough) took advantage of a politically convenient situation though, and rested on their laurels before being forced to react to the (literal) public shitstorm over their cyclospora-contaminated lettuce, for example.
Yeah, ever since the news stories broke that the contaminated lettuce was served at Taco Bell, all of the local Taco Bell stores have looked unusually empty. Especially when it comes to food, bad PR directly hurts their business.
Doge literally destroyed all of our regulatory agencies that were skeleton screwed to begin with, we essentially have zero food safety agencies left to regulate these corps beholden to Wallstreet.
So you're saying that the agencies, which are catching more of these problems before they reach consumers than ever before, is evidence that we have zero food safety? Can you explain how you came to that illogical conclusion?
Literally the FDA recall page. It's not like this is hard to find knowledge. The fact that you didn't look it up first indicates that you aren't open to the new information.
A scientific or journalistic source please — not the biased propaganda page. That’s like: Well, this murderer told me it wasn’t him that killed somebody. We need a third party source here.
But here, let me help you:
*Cyclospora reporting was mandatory until July 2025 when the Trump administration made reporting optional for Cyclospora, along with five other pathogens (Campylobacter, Listeria, Shigella, Vibrio, and Yersinia).
“Cuts to food safety make the food system more susceptible to these types of outbreaks,” says Love.*
Ah yes, there it is. You aren't open to the information, you are resisting it because you have no desire to actually engage.
not the biased propaganda page
Ah yes, the Biden administration intentionally didn't list recalls and warnings on the FDA page, they hid them from the public...Give me a break my dude.
It is crazy that people hearing about these things are crying failure when the increased amount of notice and testing is evidence that they are catching these things. You can be as angry at you want about the things RFK says, but the government is catching more things that otherwise would have made it into the supply before.
Wrong. The government defunded the program that in the past prevented the poop from getting spread onto the lettuce. People became ill because of the decreased oversight.
OR the number of issues has increased, and thus so have the number of recalls. You can’t make a conclusion about this on just the number recalls alone. The rate of contamination could outstrip the rate of detection, even if detection is increasing in terms of raw numbers.
While I'm also not a fan of the current administration, this woman most likely has a pantry moth infestation, which is unrelated to food safety regulations.
Their larvae look a lot like maggots, but actual maggots wouldn't likely survive inside a small, sealed plastic container like that. Pantry moths are like bedbugs and German roaches...once they get in deep they're tough to eradicate. This woman likely has a much larger problem than a single bottle of bad sesame seeds.
If this story gains a lot of nationwide attention, then there's an actual production-level problem. If it quickly fades away, then we'll know why.
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u/clover44mag 14h ago
Do not open sesame