The U.S. government under President Trump has sought to weaken regulations intended to keep the U.S. food supply safe, most recently seeking to abolish what it calls “outdated processing requirements” for meat and poultry products. USDA under Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has proposed speeding up the chicken slaughtering lines from 140 birds per minute to 175 and the turkey slaughtering lines from 55 birds per minute to 60.
Regulations are written in blood, usually due to deaths. They are the only things attempting to keep us safe from these corporations and without them I expect things to get much worse and the exploitation to increase with each lessened regulation. Both for workers and consumers.
It’s not just decreased regulation. It’s decreased staffing for enforcement. It’s the CDC no longer tracking when foodborne illness breaks out. It’s a lot of things. The Jungle is public domain. Maybe it’s time for one of those Pride & Prejudice and Zombies rewrites. The Jungle 2, Regulatory Capture.
Cast The Rock and make him wear a brown shirt.
He already did a brown shirt in Jumanji. That would cause brand confusion.
Our only hope is that these raw meat enjoyers will one day fail to disgest or digest and get sick from a piece of meat that they failed to anticipate eating in their crusade against food and drug safety.
Or the fake meat from McDonalds and an overdose on cocaine will do them in, I dunno.
I think the high costs of meat will stop them. Hard to eat raw meat when you can’t afford it.
RFK jr loves RAW meat.
Regulations in the US are. EU Regulations work differently, you have to prove something is safe before you can bring it onto the market.
Personally, I think food is cheap enough. I spend roughly 5% percent of my paycheck on food, and I am not eating like a pauper. If safer food and happier chickens meant I needed to spend 6% of my paycheck on food, then so be it.
It’s almost as if taking steps that actively cause harm result in harm.
In the meantime, there’s a lot of great recipes with beans, lentils, tofu, etc.
While you are right about dry beans/lentils, fresh fruits/veggies are no safer than meats. Outbreaks of all sorts get linked to fruits/veggies that get eaten raw. Especially, like the other commenter said, with food items that in a factory setting get all jumbled together and mixed up. One bad apple spoils the bunch, literally.
Looking at the list of recent outbreaks, most stuff seems to be either prepared foods, or fresh fruit/veggies, all stuff that our food system should prevent.
I’m expecting them to have issues coming too. Especially tofu.
Like what? Why especially tofu?
Tofu is the one that is processed. Tens of thousands of beans from different places all get processed together under heat. It’s like the ground beef of vegan food in that way. One brick of tofu might contain a hundred different plants. It’s not like a single impenetrable dry bean. It’s an amalgamation where bacteria can set up shop inside, protected from air and eyes. But unlike ground beef it has the extra risk of being processed with heat. Heat that can feed that bacterial growth.
The last time I had tofu it was tofu I made from scratch. Taking care of sanitation was just like brewing. Everything had to be much cleaner than normal. I got some okara out of it which made some nice almond cookies. And I got soy milk out of it too. The whole thing was a fun run on three different things at once.
Bold move, making a whole nation full of angry people hungry, who also have guns. Let’s see what they do with em.
Gun owners need to learn to garden. You can’t eat copper jacketed lead lead more than once. The ones all about survival if everything falls apart typically don’t even have a single packet of seeds. And the time to learn a skill is not two months before you starve to death.
Also, ever notice that Garden & Gun never shows guns on the cover? Assuming you know that the magazine exists. Not a lot of people do. Because so reads magazines anymore?
Disclosure, I gun, cook, and plant. I put two hundred seeds on the ground two weeks ago and am struggling to get them to sprout and live in this drought.
