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> no human hand... clearly a health benefit That is a non sequitur. The most dangerous illness associated with fast food (poor nutrition aside) such as E. coli
by tantalor 9y ago
> no human hand... clearly a health benefit
That is a non sequitur. The most dangerous illness associated with fast food (poor nutrition aside) such as E. coli[1] and Hep A[2] are most readily attributed to ingredient suppliers, not improper food handling.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2015/o26-11-15/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2015/o26-11-15/index.html
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoAnd who handles the ingredients improperly? Doesn't refrigerate them sufficiently? Uses expired ingredients? Fallible humans. Lets remove them from the equation.
- onion2k 9y agoA robot chef is programmed by a human, so the human element has not been removed.
- nothrabannosir 9y agoIt has been reduced from O(n) to O(1), so much easier to check.
- horsecaptin 9y agoDoesn't chew enough? Doesn't wash their hands before eating? Eats too much? There's more to the equation! Robots feeding robots built by robots and programmed by robots! A clean solution for a clean planet earth!
- greedo 9y agoRobotic slaughterhouses would still have problem keeping fecal matter out of meat. The best way of preventing most food illnesses is radiating the food, but our irrational society won't go for that.
- bpicolo 9y agoIrradiation does have issues of it's own, like making things taste funky [0] [0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0309174008002337 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03091...
- pbalau 9y agoTrue, but with a full automatic system to convert those ingredients to food, you could add a test step, where you filter out the contaminated ingredients.
- knieveltech 9y agoI feel like waiting for the labs to come back on e coli and salmonella tests might inversely impact wait times.
- dd36 9y agoI was assuming he meant something like the flu. Fast food workers have awful benefits and low pay thus working while sick.
- gnode 9y agoThat doesn't mean that labour aren't a more frequent source of food-borne illnesses, just not the most serious cases. I'm not likely to die from someone sneezing in my food, but I don't want to catch what they have nonetheless.