I truly cannot believe “should we have a food safety infrastructure” is something we are litigating in the year two thousand fucking twenty five and the person currently in charge is on the “no” side
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Maybe since RFK fortified himself against pathogens by stripping naked and dropping acid and then flopping and writhing around in a putrid pit of dead, rotting animals he thinks we all share his imagined immunity?
The Market can take care of it. If there is a tainted meet outbreak, the Market will get together, identify the farms involved and the dates of production, and figure out all the stores it went to, then hire a PR firm to get the message out.
If only The Invisible Hand of The Market could bring people back to life after they're killed by preventable (food-born or otherwise) disease, then this would be a great way to run things.
Also gotta love the logic of having a system to prevent something, that something becoming rare to then immediately have people go "why do we have a system to prevent this rare thing?"
“It didn’t rain today, so we are going to outlaw umbrellas. Lay off the workers at the umbrella factory. And threaten the weather people who forecast rain tomorrow.”
I regret to inform you that the number of food caused deaths is going to have to hit a stupidly high number before people decide maybe just maybe the stupidly expensive groceries shouldn't be giving you bloody diarrhea.
if you want to not get salmonella and e.coli and rat dropping in your raw milk and lettuce, well. Those people are a problem and gonna block it. Choose which one you want to keep.
They know we are pushing physical limits and are responding by intentionally pushing all of them harder, from the top down. They know this will kill a lot of people. I assume they'll try to ensure it's not the richest people first.
🤷 I assume it's to hope enough poors die and they accumulate enough militarized cops that they can enforce feudalism on the remaining poors in a smaller population (which alleviates some of the pressure, at least the rest of their lives)
That's essentially the same as Thiel/Yarvin's proposed future, leaving out the "a techno-miracle occurs" step for reducing scarcity. I assume not everyone in Thiel's class is betting their own lives on such a miracle, in private.
Or that the people currently hand waving away the devastating effects gutting food safety will have... acknowledge that said effects will happen, but it's okay because you can just plant a tomato garden.
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Also he needs anything to try and keep Q2 being even worse for the economy.
(Another behavior I'm reminded of from the worst parts of the internet)
Foiled!
Oh sorry, I’m being handed a note-
I remember in 2011 when contaminated sprouts that you sprinkle at an afterthought on salad killed 53 people. This shit is scary.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_outbreak
To which I ask: why is the thing rare?
if you want to not get salmonella and e.coli and rat dropping in your raw milk and lettuce, well. Those people are a problem and gonna block it. Choose which one you want to keep.
They know we are pushing physical limits and are responding by intentionally pushing all of them harder, from the top down. They know this will kill a lot of people. I assume they'll try to ensure it's not the richest people first.
If they had any brains they'd go for Russian style fake elections and oligarchy but it looks like they're just not capable of doing anything right.