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Fear-mongering article. The food industry has a high standard of safety and has dealt with e-coli, salmonella, and the list goes on. The have dealt with sick wo
by appleiigs 7y ago
Fear-mongering article. The food industry has a high standard of safety and has dealt with e-coli, salmonella, and the list goes on. The have dealt with sick workers before too.
EDIT: As an example, many many years ago i got a tour of a bakery that supplied Starbucks. Lab coat, booties, hair net, washed hands... for a bakery. Those same things that keep food safe will keep workers safe... and the workers are relatively lower skilled therefore can be replaced easily (unlike health-care).
- Noumenon72 7y agoIt's not mongering fear about contamination in the food, which should be fine. Every industry has had sick workers before, but many have shuttered. Rather than just helicopter dropping $2 trillion and going home, Congress should have been thinking about how to make sure that key industries can pay for safety measures and replacement workers. The price system could do that, but people call it "profiteering".
- appleiigs 7y agoAs I said, the same safety measures are already in place for food are good safety measures for the workers. And the workers are readily available. Many are already seasonal and temporary. On my friend's blueberry farm, workers are so temporary they'll start in the morning and quit by noon. Toilet paper buying was a media driven event. The media needs to be more responsible with fear driven click-bait.
- core-questions 7y ago> The media needs to be more responsible with fear driven click-bait. Concur. They've been clamouring for ages for laws to control what's "real news" and what's "fake news"; if they want regulation so badly, they can have some regulation to get them to consider the end impact of their articles, and whether the level of alarm they're extolling for clicks is truly warranted.