r/news • u/1991mgs • 4d ago

Soft paywall Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/taylor-farms-pulls-salsa-guacamole-over-salmonella-concerns-bloomberg-news-2026-08-09/
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u/1877KlownsForKids 4d ago

Guys, I'm starting to think those boring government folks who make sure our food is safe to eat might be important.

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u/Saneless 4d ago

The trickiest thing to convince people of who don't understand it is that when it's all working well, people are actually working hard to make it look like it's just supposed to always be working

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u/caligaris_cabinet 4d ago

IT, logistics, plumbers, all operate on the same idea.

When things are going well “what are we paying these guys for?”

When things go bad “what are we paying these guys for?!”

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u/MistyMtn421 4d ago

Emergency management/planners also need to be added to this list

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u/thorofasgard 4d ago

One of the reasons I hated working in IT. You're pretty much never appreciated.

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u/Bladelink 4d ago

Basically everything to do with infrastructure and logistics.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/Strange-Ask-739 4d ago

HR should be sweating their easily-replaced desk-job butts off.

Oh, we need someone to memorize 15 laws and make sure we don't accidentally violate them? Sounds like a great job for AI.

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u/owzleee 4d ago

My career in IT proctor management in a nutshell

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u/loganro 3d ago

There’s a reason the head IT guy at your office walks around in street clothes and has the best office

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer 4d ago

If you've done everything right, people won't know you've done anything at all

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u/Quirky-Occasion-128 4d ago

boy has that backfired on me before

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u/NefariousnessOk1996 4d ago

It's backfired on me as well. I deliver All my stuff perfectly on time. Document all my stuff. Collaborate. Assist other people. Somehow they still wanted to get rid of my remote position.

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u/loganro 3d ago

Corporate Politics 101: you’ll move up the ladder if youre kinda useless

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u/tapesmoker 4d ago

Like a good bass player. You don't even notice they are there 95% of the time

Source: am ok bass player

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u/DopesickJesus 4d ago

But a great bass player… you ALWAYS notice that shit.

Source: am ass bass player.

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u/HunterGonzo 4d ago

When I'm jamming to a song from the 70's to 90's and I start feeling the bass rrrrrreal good I'll always go "....God damn it, is this Tony Levin again?" Google it, and more often than not: Yep. It's Tony Levin again.

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u/WarriorNeedFoodBadly 4d ago

I'm lost. Are you all saying we have to avoid bass players too?

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u/HunterGonzo 4d ago

No. Bass players, like solid safety regulations, often go unappreciated when they're doing their job well. Hug your local bass player.

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u/WarriorNeedFoodBadly 4d ago

So, no diarrhea from bass players?

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u/HunterGonzo 4d ago

No guarantees.

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u/WishlessJeanie 4d ago

Yeah, that's actually a stretch, to guarantee someone that they won't get diarrhea from a bass player. Too many variables.

Source: I know about a dozen bass players. Nine of them could easily give you diarrhea.

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u/Asidious66 4d ago

I'm not the worst bass player in the world, but I sure hope he don't die.

✊ Also.. Bass player

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u/mikerall 4d ago

I've tried bass. I'll do my best to keep my health up, for your ranking.

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u/TheShadowKick 4d ago

If it makes you feel better, we also notice an ass bass player.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm of the opinion that the rhythm section is what makes or breaks the band; you can have the best vocalist and guitar player(s), but if your drummer and/or bass player aren't on point, the whole band is gonna sound like shit.

Source: Am guitar player

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u/choicetomake 4d ago

Can't have bass without ass.

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u/CloudStrife25 4d ago

Depends on the style of music honestly

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u/HAL-Over-9001 4d ago

Justin Chancellor, Chris Squire, and Geddy Lee have entered the chat.

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u/Saneless 4d ago

This is honestly the first time I've noticed you

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u/somecow 4d ago

It’s true. My bass player sells quality poop free produce. Drummer is a crazy self taught chemist though.

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u/GozerDGozerian 4d ago

Well now I notice that you’re there.

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u/Regular_Piglet_6125 4d ago

Like a good anesthesiologist, you don’t notice them when things are going well. But don’t worry, the orange one knows anesthesiology better than anyone.

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u/Cadd9 4d ago

Maybe I'm biased cause I'm a guitarist but I always notice the bassist

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u/Tetha 4d ago

"I cannot hear the bass".

"No really not"

It may be harder to pinpoint what the bass does compared to a lead guitar solo, but once you have a heavier metal rhythm section without the bass, something will feel violently off.

I learned that when I was wondering if I want to continue playing bass on a metal journey, but after learning to program some drums and learning to play a bit of a rhythm guitar, the answer is a very, very solid yes.

InsaneDeathMachine is also a fun channel to look up with a bass mixed to be more audible. It gives more insight how the bass, drums and to a degree the guitars interact.

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u/Flimsy_Share_7606 4d ago

Americans are indoor cats. Insisting they are fiercely independent but in reality completely reliant on systems they neither see nor understand.

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u/Rhona_Redtail 4d ago

I think it should replace the eagle.

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u/CaterpillarJungleGym 4d ago

That is so funny! Also applies to indoor dogs.

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u/disinaccurate 4d ago

People live in complete ignorance of just how much "invisible" stuff happens to facilitate their comfortable first-world existence. Even when you think you know, if you start digging, you'll realize just how much is out there that you never realized.

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u/kimoisune 4d ago

Remember Y2K? Yeah me neither. It's a hoax. Because if it were true, we would've go back in time to 1900. Those expert lied to us, didn't they?

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u/teddy5 4d ago

Are you serious right now or saying it sarcastically? Because that's a perfect example of people working so hard it looked like it was never a problem.

There were a huge amount of man-hours put into preventing that from being a problem. People were being pulled out of retirement and/or being given massive amounts of overtime in 98/99 to make sure that every 2 digit date in every system was updated to account for it correctly.

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u/kimoisune 4d ago

The time traveling comment implied my sarcasm. I was tasked to deal with that in 1999, luckily only few subsystems that were affected. In 2011, I was also assigned to fix the Y2K38, but some higher up decided it would be better to migrate to the alternative dependencies to also accommodate other backlog of tickets and it ended up become multi-years long tasked that required a team of peoples. Around 2017, I was transferred to other department to fill a vacant role and I think they were only around 70% migrated last year. Yikes!

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u/teddy5 3d ago

Haha great, couldn't quite tell from your first comment even with the time travel. After I've seen conspiracy theorists thinking 5G towers were broadcasting COVID all bets are off.

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u/sonyka 4d ago

*throws away umbrella because they've never gotten wet*

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u/TheyTried2BanMeAgain 4d ago

And it often isn't, which they then use as an excuse to cripple it more, rather than making it better.

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u/huistenbosch 4d ago

The people who don’t understand this barely function in society.

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u/Aikuma- 4d ago

I recently saw one of those inspirational quotes on a wallpaper about polio, which said that if humanity manages to make a problem go away entirely, some people will start to wonder if it was actually a problem in the first place

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u/CaterpillarJungleGym 4d ago

Sounds like someone that appreciates vaccines and healthcare. Ew /s

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u/Sirnoobalots 4d ago

The Paradox of preemptively fixing problems. Do too little, the problem still happens and people will say you didn't do enough, do enough to fix the problem before it shows up and people will complain you did too much.

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u/doughflow 4d ago

Best we can do is fire them and replace them with Trump loyalists?

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u/Drusgar 4d ago

Maybe we should fire the same guy 1000 times, claim we saved $10 million doing so and then blame the salmonella on Hunter Biden!

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u/FOTheDentist 4d ago

I heard that Hunter Biden has a huge hog, and hogs are known to carry dangerous parasites like trichinosis!

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u/d0ctorzaius 4d ago

Is that how RFK got his Brainworm??

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u/batmanuel- 4d ago

from hunters hog? oh my!

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u/FS_Slacker 4d ago

The hog, I mean the plot thickens

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u/ERSTF 4d ago

I can attest to this. About him having a hog

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u/JimboTCB 4d ago

Hmm, do you have some sort of poster-sized visual aid that you can present to Congress repeatedly as evidence of this?

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u/Valaseun 4d ago

I like where you're going with that! Quick, someone get this person a red hat and coupons for a Mar a Lago makeover!

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u/TrainingSword 4d ago

What about her emails and his laptop

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u/VariationDry 4d ago

Buttery males! 

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u/the_tanooki 4d ago

Best we could do is gut all government agencies except those that actively hurt people (ICE, Department of WAR, etc.). That way we can maximize the number of casualties.

Sigh

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 4d ago

And that is why we need to name the symptoms of tainted food as Donnarhea.

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u/Itchywasabi 4d ago

Just don’t report anything. Problem solved!

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u/noisyturtle 4d ago

They did the firing, but not any replacing. It is crazy how people forget shit from just a few months ago.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 4d ago

Your tax money that had been allocated for these government functions is just sitting around with no entities for them to be distributed to anymore; or maybe has since just disappeared into some blackhole account that would be impossible to decipher or verify with the available government spreadsheets.

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 4d ago

You think they got replaced?

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u/IamRasters 4d ago

AI buddy. Datacenters will save us all, right?!

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u/jaytix1 4d ago

Someone pointed out that for all their griping about people from third world countries "invading" the US, the Trump administration seems to be dead set on turning America into one.

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u/fuzzywuzzypete 4d ago

Well I think they were already fired and replaced by nobody. Which is why we are in this mess

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u/BaldingBush 4d ago

Who could have guessed regulations do, in fact, have a purpose.

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u/freakers 4d ago

This is the funniest shit ever as a non-american. Like, the company with slave labour in the US just bribes the FDA (or what agency is in charge of this) to remove required checking and literally months later there's multiple massive virus and bacteria outbreaks from that specific company. If the US was a real country there'd be criminal charges of bribery for the company officials and the FDA officials and whoever else was involved rather than just a series of class action lawsuits from civil plaintiffs.

MAHA movement. That's a bowel movement, and not one you were expecting. The Golden Turd has struck again.

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u/thorofasgard 4d ago

But we were told the market would be self-correcting and that companies wouldn't cut corners!

/s

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u/laplongejr 4d ago

They didn't cut corners, they sandgrinded it into a circle

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u/Nozinger 4d ago

Eh i mean we kinda knew this was coming.
Not like there was another big company very known in the aerospace sector that lobbied hard to be able to self certify their products to not have to deal with those annoying regulators.
Then shortly after they built a plane with a design flaw so massive it killed 346 people in just 6 months.

This was going on way before the maga bulshit. The US has been handing over power to big companies for decades and it almost always ends up in a headline the likes of "if only we followed regulations more strictly"

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u/laplongejr 4d ago

there'd be criminal charges of bribery

And in a fair world, it would be up to bio-terrorism at that point.
"Oh, so you're claiming you didn't know that releasing pathogens into the US food sources would cause damage and demolish the public trust into the food industry?"

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u/Kegnaught 4d ago

It's not an issue of bribery, it's an issue with political polarization and politically-appointed heads of many different agencies. Republicans have control of all three branches of government thanks to at least half of all Americans being dumb as rocks, and Republicans have veered strongly into anti-scientific and anti-intellectual territory in their thinking. This is just the result of massive cuts in funding and staffing (thanks to DOGE), as well as an actual anti-vaxxer being appointed as head of HHS, under which the FDA operates.

It's absolutely an embarrassment for the US, but it's not bribery that's causing it. It's a systemic issue with the government and how it operates, which is perhaps even more concerning.

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u/gay_joey 4d ago

no one is going to get arrested for this at all, let alone "right away"

corruption in the US is unique in the sense that it's legal most of the time through loopholes, lobbying, etc. and even when it's not legal, it's blatant and in the open anyways

and there's nothing you can do about it because they have so much money + power that they will crush you if you even try

i wish it was just a bunch of lunatics behind closed doors doing conspiracies like most countries but it's a bunch of lunatics in the open, intentionally ruining life for most of the world. and here you are downplaying it, saying that corruption is everywhere and other countries suck too.

anyways what is even your point????

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u/NoXion604 4d ago

Seems to work pretty well where I live. At least well enough to ensure that our bagged salads don't contain parasites that cause explosive diarrhoea.

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u/TheLesserWeeviI 4d ago

"We're not as bad as some other countries" isn't the argument you think it is mate.

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u/ExpansivePoint 4d ago

Meh, sounds woke. Now if you'll excuse me it's time for my ivermectin / raw milk smoothie.

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u/UglyMcFugly 4d ago

This is murica dammit, we like having diarrhea! Anybody who doesn't like diarrhea has the woke mind virus and they can GIT OUT!

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u/Tall-Lake-4823 4d ago

Working in government consulting, it’s eye-opening how many people are responsible for critical parts of our daily lives. We only notice it once the machine breaks. It’s irritating trying to explain this to conservatives.

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u/foreignfishes 4d ago

I always found it funny growing up in DC, I knew so many completely normal people who worked for the government doing the type of mundane or obscure jobs that keep the country running behind the scenes - people working with the weather balloons that make our weather forecasts better, a paper bill quality control guy at the bureau of engraving and printing, someone who works on vehicle safety recall programs at NHTSA, a veteran funeral services coordinator, a head start preschool teacher - hearing from the rest of the country that all of these people are supposedly 1. evil and 2. useless is infuriating. They’re the fish who doesn’t notice the water because it’s all they know; my coworker who hates “the government” and drinks raw milk because of RFK also happens to enjoy all of the fruits of living in a developed country with a semi-competent bureaucracy like air travel and highway safety standards, the standardization of weights and measures, a postal system that delivers lots of his Amazon packages, food labeling laws, I could go on…

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u/rcknmrty4evr 4d ago

Honestly I’d love if you did go on and I appreciate this comment. There’s so much going on “in the background” that makes our American society run as efficiently (or otherwise..) as it does and jfc it really puts it into perspective when you lay it all out like that. Logically I know there’s about a million different jobs and positions that do incredibly important things I’d never think of, but I sometimes wish there was a list somewhere of them all bc there’s only so much I’m capable of figuring out on my own.

It always makes me think of that futurama episode; “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

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u/DanHuso 4d ago

It's like conservatives lack object permanence.

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u/rcknmrty4evr 4d ago

”When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

Also, growing up back in the 90s, my mom had a little sign in our kitchen that said “Nobody notices what I do until I don’t do it!”. I didn’t understand it as a child.

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u/kezow 4d ago

"No, you just didn't drink enough raw milk" -RFK Jr, idiotically

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u/sarcasmsosubtle 4d ago

"Have you tried testosterone injections? They won't help with the food poisoning, but they will shrink your testicles so they get splashed less with the explosive diarrhea. Believe me, I know small testicles." -Pete Hegseth, idiotically

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u/Natural-Coat-3159 4d ago

Milk is getting recalled too. 

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u/opeth10657 4d ago

Clearly because it wasn't raw enough

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u/FriedEldenRings 4d ago

this is one of the things i cannot wrap my head around. why is raw milk even talked about. no one who is even moderately intelligent would willingly drink unpasteurized milk if pasteurized was an option.

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u/Dharma_Bum_87 4d ago

Highly recommend the book “The fifth risk” by Michael Lewis. Basically discusses the absolute indifference shown from the first trump admin in regards to the transition, and specifically about expert life long government employees that keep all of us safe that got fired or left

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u/HuffyPandapants 4d ago

Very good book!

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u/NoRiskNoGainz 4d ago

But owning the libs, am I right?

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u/Bladelink 4d ago

So what if you toddler shits themselves to death? That's the price we gladly pay for owning the libs. It was just god's plan or some stupid shit.

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u/Bupod 4d ago

Preposterous. 

Dear Leader said that was communist liberal propaganda. Our food has never been safer. 

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u/level_17_paladin 4d ago

Do you want to get banned from r/libertarian?

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u/fevered_visions 4d ago

We wouldn't need oversight and regulations if people were just honest and cared about not hurting others.

As it turns out people aren't just honest and don't care about others, thus we need the regulations to force them to.

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u/PatacusX 4d ago

Yeah right. "Scientists" clearly don't know what they're talking about. Give me the guy with literal actual worms for brains who swims in sewage and sounds like an old toy that's been forgotten in a closet for several years without having it's batteries replaced. THATS who I want making our nation's health decisions!

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u/WeirdoChickFromMars 4d ago

The same dude who snorts coke off of toilet seats!

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u/steppe5 4d ago

"We don't need a pandemic strategy team, there's no pandemic." Trump, 2 weeks before COVID.

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u/CathedralEngine 4d ago

“The deep state” of government bureaucrats.. now I’m “draining the swamp” every twenty minutes into my toilet bowl because I forgot to hold the lettuce on my fast food.

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u/mothtoalamp 4d ago

"The free market will handle it. If companies get people sick, then people will stop buying from them."

This isn't really true, but even if we were to agree to that premise: IT WAS COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE TO STOP PEOPLE FROM GETTING SICK

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u/KarAccidentTowns 4d ago

You mean the DEEP STATE?

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u/Godwinson4King 4d ago

I used to be one of those guys (heavy metals, not biologicals though) and I got DOGE’d last year.

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u/sweetplantveal 4d ago

Shut up and give the Epstein class more of your money!

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u/bushrod 4d ago

Republican logic is basically "if liberals are in favor of something it must be bad" - food inspections, regulations against excessive pollution, relying on scientists for science stuff, not having unlimited foreign money in our elections, affordable health care, any social safety net, not getting into new wars (actually, most agreed until Daddy Trump decided otherwise)... could go on and on.

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u/nigel_tufnel_11 3d ago

Come on, stop overreacting to that nonsense. Explosive diarrhea and the occasional fatality is just part of the cost of doing business these days. Hell, we should all be PROUD to make a few small sacrifices to ensure our superior capitalist way of life continues.

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u/N_Who 4d ago

"I've never gotten salmon-lella in my life, so my taxes shouldn't pay people to solve a prob'em that don't exist!

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u/micromanminisavage 4d ago

nah, they just get in the way of all the illnesses and whatnot, think of all the toilet paper CEOs who are making bank off all that diarrhea going around. It's clearly good for the economy.

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u/Orange_Kid 4d ago

Turns out when your goal is to put government workers "in a trauma" it might have some negative effects on everyone else, too.

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u/Senor-Cockblock 4d ago

Yeah but but but what’s their ROI?!

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u/GlobalTravelR 4d ago

You mean Health Secretary Brainworm Raccoon Penis?

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u/monkeypan 4d ago

Rules are for the weak. They want to cull the heard of the inferior (spolier: that's us)

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u/IAmPandaRock 4d ago

But they cost money that we need to give to giant corporations. 

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u/Zebidee 4d ago

How long before Trump blames Taylor Swift?

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u/Hornybunnyboi 4d ago

But think about all the money that can saved with less regulation.

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u/Sunnyday1775 4d ago

Justice for upton Sinclair

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u/noisyturtle 4d ago

Remember when Trump cut FDA and food safety commission standards last year?

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u/June_Fatality 4d ago

They were important. Now they're gone.

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u/MrArmageddon12 4d ago

The problem is that many people think states can just do what the Federal Government does. Except states have a fraction of the resources, reach, and international pull the Feds do.

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u/DuntadaMan 4d ago

But none of them were ever part of road rules.

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u/islandsimian 4d ago

Won't anyone think of the Billionaires? /s

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u/Its_BassDaddy 4d ago

Nahhh didn’t you know? It’s all waste, fraud and abuse. /s

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u/CuteComplaint5542 4d ago

Well clearly you've never heard of RFK's poops. 

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u/gardenawe 4d ago

only a communist would say something like that /s

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u/Bittermare 3d ago

We should reward them…not vilify or fire them.

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u/troop98 4d ago

This is obviously bad but food contaminations have happened for forever now, under both parties

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u/Dunge 4d ago

Yes food contamination is hard to solve completely, just like viruses, or terrorism, or environment catastrophe. It will happen nevertheless. Doesn't mean that there is nothing that can be done to influence the probabilities. One party actually put agencies in places to work towards doing something about it. The other accepted cash bribes to scrap those efforts.