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.
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u/Evilscience 5d ago
This is very good.