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I thought i saw someone say this was part of project 2025. Not sure what specifically. Also not sure how it matters as we seemingly know what they want to do and how they plan to do it but nothing happens to stop them.

They don't want us to die until AI can take over the jobs.

They still need plebs to take money from and to make children for them to ah... "party" with.

For now i think don't think of them as hating you. That's a bit like saying someone eating a steak hates cows.

Or fries --> potatoes (lemmy requires us to provide a vegetarian option with our analogies).

Given that some people will inevitably die from these policy decisions this is 100% social murder

covid taught me that malice and incompetence were the same thing with a lot of people.

My response to "don't mistake incompetence for malice" is usually "that applies to regular people. When it comes to governments, I think both malice and incompetence should be a disqualifying factor."

And this isn't some 'let the strongest survive' eugenics shit. It is like saying they want to 'cull the weak' by shooting anyone and everyone regardless of who they are in the head and making a post-hoc explanation that it had to be done.

I'm upvoting you, because you are correct.

With that said, RFK Jr. is speedrunning the downfall of the USDA and FDA at lightning speeds. There are outbreaks that we haven't had in decades, and some for centuries.

People want to know that the people in charge are taking this seriously and prioritizing the health of the community/nation.

It is incredibly hard to believe that this administration is doing anything of the sort, so that's why these sort of things get so much attention.

Just as with the trains, this should be covered extensively, this shit shouldnt happen, it shouldnt get buried, and the people responsible shouldnt get to just go on about their day with no repercussions. Have there always been recalls? Yes. Is the news just doing this because it benefits them? Yes. Doednt matter, use the pressure for positive change and stop it from getting worse. Excusing it and lessening it by just saying it alwayd happens isnt helpful even if true.

Oh, the agency that had 20% of its workforce cut https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2026/02/16/fda-and-usda-staff-cuts-under-trump-raise-food-safety-risks/, then started doing stuff like this https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-revoke-52-obsolete-standards-identity-food-products are not tied to "administration changes"? Wtf are you talking about? Why are you bending over backwards to tell people this isn't the fault of the guy who cut the fda employee base?

I had the same thought reading this.

"Is this just being talked about more and is a normal amount of recalls or has relaxed regulations lead to an increase in overall recalls."

We've had food recalls yes, but what about second recalls? I don't think he knows about second recalls Pippin.

So your point is that food safety was already abysmal in the USA and, somehow, that means the fact that it is in the news now is less important?

you're giving the current government way too much credit. "C"s?

The FDA is gonna turn us all into hypervigilant food scientists.

Never challenge their ability to make things worse.

McDonalds gave me bad food poisoning this year. Like i exploded out both ends they poisoned me. So no, it’s not safe either.

I'm too tired to care about being gay or not, who cares?

yes, aged fermented tofu.

And it’s 10,000 cases. Sounds like a large number, but in a country of 350,000,000, that’s not that much.

A case of 12 packs of tofu is $60 on the highest end. So this is at most $600,000 worth of tofu.

There is $467,000,000 to $521,000,000 worth of tofu sold in the US every year.

This is a recall of about 1/10th of 1% of the tofu market.

This does happen frequently. Food recalls happen all the time. Under Biden it averaged 135 recalls per month. This term under Trump it’s 126 per month. Under his first term it was 164 per month.

The recalls are NOT the metric to look at though. Recalls are normal. Look at when that recall metric starts to really drop off, because then you know the lack of regulation has taken effect and the companies are no longer letting you know when something has gone wrong.

Recalls are a sign the regulations are working. If recalls go down, there are only two outcomes. Companies are either going above and beyond regulations (LOL) or regulations have relaxed to allow them to not report issues.

More recalls are not an issue. Fewer recalls are.

presumably removing the packaging material before you subject any food to heat might help as well.