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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Old saying "Fire and flight regulations are written in blood." Food regulations are likely written in various excretions?

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

There have absolutely been deaths due to unsafe, mass produced foods.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Insane! 178 others were left with permanent injury including kidney and brain damage!

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 32 minutes ago

And this was entirely preventable

However, the Jack in the Box fast-food restaurant chain had knowledge of but disregarded Washington state laws which required burgers to be cooked to 155 °F (68 °C), the temperature necessary to completely kill E. coli. Instead, it adhered to the federal standard of 140 °F (60 °C). If Jack in the Box followed the state cooking standard, the outbreak would have been prevented, according to court documents and experts from the Washington State Health Department.

[–] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago

They're the best excretions...

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Puss is an option too

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What is so incredible is that we are living st a time with such massive food surplus that it would blow the mind of anyone living in the past... but they will let all of it go to waste and just add bullshit to the food just because they can...

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

And make it unaffordable, because fuck it why not

[–] toadjones79@lemm.ee 64 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Bleach, actually. A small amount of bleach added to spoiled milk makes it taste brand new. The government actually suggested this in a few countries for a while.

Plaster in flour was common enough that after the miller, the middle men, and then the baker all added a cut, there were loaves being sold with less than 20% flour in them. The result was mass malnutrition.

Also, and this is a spicy one but backed by basic economics, regulations are a required element to capitalism. The notion that deregulation is pro capitalism is a misinterpretation of the idea that markets are self regulating. A free market is one that is free of corruption and unfair business practices. Which cannot exist without regulations and the enforcement of those regulations. All our current economic woes are the result of straying away from proven economic theory (mostly deregulation) to the right allowing the corruption of the marketplace and emergence of a strong oligarchy.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Saw dust was also added to flour. Various heavy metals would be added to food to enhance their color.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Also added to grated Parmesan.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago

A free market is one that is free of corruption and unfair business practices. Which cannot exist without regulations and the enforcement of those regulations.

We've had numerous laws precisely because companies couldn't play fair, and made things worse for all involved. The government didn't pass laws against company towns, scrip, and predatory pricing because they decided to ban things for fun.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

is plaster bread low calorie

[–] Ramenator@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Technically. The constipation would probably balance out the weight loss though

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Shitting bricks.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (5 children)

That's just the free market working as intended. Collateral damage.

Maybe people should do research on the available milk brands before giving it to their children if they didn't want them to drink bleach.

Edit: I tried to resist adding the "/s," but we live in crazy (stupid) times, so...

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

The Free Market (holy be thy name) gives you the choice between $1/bottle for milk with chalk and bleach, or $10/bottle for one with less chalk and bleach. If you want one without chalk and bleach, you'll need to find your own cow.

Also, the cows all have birth defects and need uranium-powered antibiotics to stay alive.

Now, let us open our song books to number 34: "Praise Hayek and His Perfect Mustache".

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Blasphemer! In our house we praise Wittgenstein, not that Austrian hack

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 12 points 12 hours ago

Excellent idea! I'm sure that information will be readily available from independent trustworthy sources that are not the government! Failing that, I always have my trusty mass spectrometer in my kitchen and I run all my foods through it just in case!

[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 12 points 12 hours ago

With no regulation there will be no other milk brands.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe people should do research on the available milk brands before giving it to their children if they didn’t want them to drink bleach.

Without regulation, the company could also just lie. Nothing would dictate that they would have to tell the truth about their product.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Well that's why you need to do your own research. As in looking at products under microscopes, doing physics equations, etc.

If you're not an expert on every product you purchase (and the science behind them), well then that's on you and your kid deserves getting lead poisoning from his band-aids.

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