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From this, and linked articles on New York Times, the suggestion is laxed food safety standards are endemic across the entire processed food industry.
by engineer_22 2y ago
From this, and linked articles on New York Times, the suggestion is laxed food safety standards are endemic across the entire processed food industry.
- jgeada 2y ago[flagged]
- matwood 2y agoThe article paints a picture of lack of enforcement, not regulation.
- darby_nine 2y agoHow do you distinguish these behaviors?
- matwood 2y agoThere are a lot of regulations. They were inspected. They failed inspections. Then the inspectors did nothing. All the additional regulations can be added that we want, but if the inspectors don't close the plant, they are meaningless.
- darby_nine 2y agoSure, but regulation without enforcement is a meaningless concept. This just looks like defacto lack of regulation to me.
- jtbayly 2y agoAgreed. I’m for fewer regulations, but enforced. In this case, we have several deaths. Perhaps the head of the factory and the inspectors that failed to keep the plant safe should be tried for third degree murder or something.
- HarryHirsch 2y agoYou can't. It's meaningless. If the government tells you you have rights, but there's no practical way to claim those rights, then you have no rights and the government is lying in your face.
- greenhearth 2y agoEnforcement is part of regulation
- datavirtue 2y agoIt requires engagement from the employees...a culture. On this, everyone is failing. Our leaders have contorted and conflicting allegiances. Their minds are filled with numbers swelling and cash multiplying. The focus is not on delivering value for all stakeholders.
- ToDougie 2y agoAnd how many of the employees feel comfortable blowing the whistle? A chunk of them are bound to be undocumented/illegally in the US, and it seems like those folks are being taken advantage of already because they have so much to lose. Blowing the whistle on some weird looking green slime or leaks or whatever can mean getting deported. Not saying the worker is a bad person for looking the other way, but I am saying that we are doing this to ourselves and these are some really obvious consequences of awful policy.
- gorbachev 2y agoFrom 2009: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html Slaughterhouses not testing their products for E coli, because it's too expensive. Slaughterhouses blacklisting customers who do their own testing. USDA has no effective regulatory powers to change that.
- dredmorbius 2y agoSingle-page archive: <https://archive.is/OKqta https://archive.is/OKqta>
- briffle 2y agoGoes way before that: https://www.history.com/news/upton-sinclair-the-jungle-us-food-safety-reforms https://www.history.com/news/upton-sinclair-the-jungle-us-fo...
- engineer_22 2y agoIf I remember my US History USDA was a direct response to The Jungle. Society at the time was appalled, and demanded govt action. Similar to the response to Silent Spring and the standing up of EPA.
- nxobject 2y agoI’ll admit, if arguments about nitrates being carcinogenic aren’t a convincing reason to avoid processed meat, this might just be one.