People like to buy themselves out of solutions when the correct answer is call your legislators and ask them if they or their children (if they have them) want to die from a food borne illness and if not to get the fda and usda back to proper staffing levels - ThreadSky

kendrawrites.com • 3 days ago

People like to buy themselves out of solutions when the correct answer is call your legislators and ask them if they or their children (if they have them) want to die from a food borne illness and if not to get the fda and usda back to proper staffing levels

Reposted from Talia Lavin

responses to this have included
-grow all your own food
-buy organic
-check labels
-go to the farmers market
-check for recalls
-make your own food from scratch

etc

WRONG. none of you have read the article

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pyperkub.bsky.social•3 days ago

Seniors are also much more susceptible to death from food born illnesses...

blaski.bsky.social•3 days ago

And children

isla2014.bsky.social•3 days ago

Don’t buy Pilgrims Pride chicken. Sold at Krogers, Walmart, Albertsons, Amazon Fresh.

dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social•3 days ago

Even the conservative legislators from the Land of Koch get this concept if the lack of regulations bite them on the butt
https://apnews.com/general-news-19081bb2dadd449cba469c2f6ddcdcb9?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

coleygonzo.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s so crazy to me that people so many lack the imagination to logically envision consequences unless those consequences have already happened to them.

coleygonzo.bsky.social•2 days ago

*so many people 🤦🏻‍♀️

armk27.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m reminded of the essay where the author mused about how no single person in the world could make a pencil. Even if these people had all the time in the world they couldn’t make half of what they assume would be so easy

renaissancedreamer.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is wack that people think you can work around fda deregulation. Even the term “organic” is regulated, or not. Anything could be adulterated or dangerous for consumption. Even fruit has been sprayed & handled.

kendrawrites.com•3 days ago

Then call your state reps and ask them what they're doing to step up food safety given the Trump administration failings.

Then tell a few friends you've done this and suggest they might want to too

kendrawrites.com•3 days ago

Minnesota for example has pretty active food borne illness surveillance.

kendrawrites.com•3 days ago

Ignore the out of in my original skeet. My brain was doing "by themselves out of problems" and "by their way into solutions" and this is what you get

billjank.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think you have something with the “buy themselves into solutions” - hence the “premium” solutions to everything, where the status quo is often fine.

Eg, instead of making public schools better for all, spend way more to get tutors or private school.

“Organic”, “local”, etc when it comes to food.

enceladusty.bsky.social•3 days ago

Like tsa pre is just a fast pass. Instead of just making all the lines faster you have to buy the premium lane. Creates a perverse incentive to keep the regular lane sh*tty & slow

kendrawrites.com•3 days ago

I do think local is a little different though. It's about communities trying to keep some regional farming. There's something to be said about that culturally speaking

blaski.bsky.social•3 days ago

Remember years ago when dogs were dying of kidney disease and someone finally figured gluten in some kibble had been mixed with melamine, because when a test is done for protein, it looks like a high protein? 1/3

amockingbird.bsky.social•2 days ago

They fired the people testing pet food, too. Cats have died of bird flu from commercial raw diets, and I doubt we’ll ever know how infected meat ended up in the pet food supply chain.

blaski.bsky.social•3 days ago

And then alter they got that out of US dog food, babies in China died, because the same stuff was used in formulas there?

Expect more of this.
2/3

blaski.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls

gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is like advising people to stop driving on the streets because of traffic deregulation. It’s so phenomenally privileged, shortsighted and dumb that I can’t believe this type of argument comes from people on our side.

kendrawrites.com•3 days ago

The number of people who have told me now is the time to switch to plant based milk with zero understanding that those too have been subject to recalls really factors into it. The wellness industry has done a number on the US

gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social•3 days ago

The profit motive is incompatible with human health… In my not so fucking humble opinion.

moldybasil.bsky.social•3 days ago

We're in a constitutional crisis! What can I buy to help? Which brands can I follow to save democracy?!? What new consumer trend will be our salvation?

moldybasil.bsky.social•3 days ago

Too cynical?

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