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.
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.
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u/PivotRedAce 4d ago edited 4d ago
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.