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Wow, I'm so sorry to hear that. As a non-American, I didn't realize the food safety situation was this dire. What an unnecessary, pointless death. How many more until the people finally turn on the government? Food is about as non-partisan or bi-partisan as you can get.
It's already starting to happen. Avowed socialists winning special elections in formerly lopsided Trump districts, etc. About fucking time.
food involves both lots of money and the opportunity to display cultural group membership, so, no
During lockdown, Americans died of covid in the ICU while denying the existence of covid with their last hacking breath. Soon Americans will chow down on diarrhea groceries like Jonestown.
A man threatened my coworkers life over him reminding them to wear a mask the next time they came, trump and his ilk (including all republicans and the now corporate-owned media) are squarely to blame.
As an American, I'm not sure I'll ever root for America again.
Right there with you buddy. I'm sorry that happened to your coworker. Things are bad and getting worse fast.
food is highly partisan; take non pasturised milk, should it be able to be sold as food?
i think that it should be able to be sold, but not as food, i.e. only if it has special warnings on it that it's not safe for human consumption.
It shouldn't be though. It really really really should not be a partisan issue or even an issue at all to think people deserve access to healthy and safe food.
sure, but should people not also have the right to unhealthy food should sweets be allowed, whatabout alcohol? and this is even ignoring the issue of what animals should be able to be eaten.
The right to unhealthy food and choosing to slowly die of poor diet and lack of exercise - yeah that's fine, freedom and so forth. I'm all for letting people imbibe whatever drugs they want, including alcohol, as long as they're being responsible about it. You wanna grab some heroin and shoot up and pass out on your couch after a hard day at work. Go for it. Idgaf.
That, however, is very different than food being literally poisonous in a way that will acutely affect someone. Either through actual poisons or by being full of deadly and dangerous bacteria that will kill you.
That is unacceptable. It's not part of some slippery slope of limiting personal choice; it's a baseline part of a healthy and happy society we should all be striving to create.
Personally, I would also advocate for a gigantic sugar tax on all levels of production, refinement and sale. Starting at the crops and through to the sodas. Additionally, I would create a percentage based tax on manufacturers of processed foods based on a "healthiness index.". Healthy food you're paying no tax at all. Twinkies - yeah that's getting taxed the most. I do think there's a place for the state to intervene in ways to push the food supply towards being healthier and one of those is making foods full of sugar and trans fats expensive.
People should 100% be able to afford a treat, that's a whole other socioeconomic argument, but it's far too convenient and easy to get food bad for you as your main source of daily calories.
Anyways that's a far ways off from the original point which is that when you buy food at the store it should not contain poison or deadly bacteria.
Yea. American politicians definitely don't care. That's like asking them not to fund a genocide on a foreign shore.