TFA starts out with a straw man, suggesting that there's no value in a $15 food safety course because what it teaches is trivial and obvious - like what a moldy

TFA starts out with a straw man, suggesting that there's no value in a $15 food safety course because what it teaches is trivial and obvious - like what a moldy strawberry looks like. The conclusion which they are suggesting is that this $15 is a fig leaf for funding an organization not in the employees' interest. In fact, the course teaches many things that are not common knowledge and which are important for food preparation - specifically the times and temperatures at which food must be kept in order to minimize the culture of dangerous bacteria. Maybe the Times would prefer that food workers be taught this important information about food safety by some other organization but trivializing the actual information is a bad faith argument.