| ▲ | WillPostForFood a day ago |
| The big Boar's Head listeria recalls were in Summer 2024, before Trump was elected, before Doge existed... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boars-head-listeria-recall-bug-... https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/boars-head-provisio... |
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| ▲ | usefulcat a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| The fact that those problems occurred prior to Doge underscores the stupidity of Doge cutting FDA resources. |
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| ▲ | bsian a day ago | parent [-] | | “I’m right either way” | | |
| ▲ | jknoepfler a day ago | parent [-] | | The solution is very clearly neither deregulation nor defunding regulatory agencies. | | |
| ▲ | WillPostForFood a day ago | parent [-] | | Why not? If the agency is doing a poor job you might be better of defunding it or disbanding, or forcing smarter, cheaper, more efficient testing. If money fixed problems we'd have great schools and great health care. | | |
| ▲ | doodlebugging a day ago | parent [-] | | Money does fix those problems. The problem is that the money that could be used is being applied to the wrong problem or is being siphoned off by those whose only goal is accumulation of money since that accumulation might guarantee more power in the process of selecting how to direct the next cash infusion, which they also hope to accumulate. |
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| ▲ | EA-3167 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The other issue is that looking into both standard and "Major" recalls by the FDA this year isn't statistically different from any other. In fact there's no overall trend going back years, it mostly seems to be media coverage and the (understandable) rage and frustration with the current admin. It's still a shame to see so many people on HN thoughtlessly repeat a media narrative without considering the stats though. |
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| ▲ | gnuplustoejam a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| McDonalds was October 2024 too. Let's not let facts and real data get in the way though. Every post is being massively downvoted. |
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| ▲ | Arubis a day ago | parent [-] | | Firing USDA inspectors etc. is definitely directionally stupid. But yeah, this issue is preexisting. A huge portion of USGov’s rules and regulations were written in response to the social push when stuff like The Jungle was hitting the public perception—which is to say, when public health could be meaningfully improved by a simple non-magnified visual inspection of meat destined for sale. And so that’s what we get: a visual inspection of meat destined for sale. Say what you will about the overall regulatory environment of Canada and the EU—you can buy meat there and know that you will not get salmonella, because it’s been tested for salmonella, and it won’t be sold for consumption if that test is positive. Stateside we’re just told: well, cook it properly or it’s on you. | | |
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