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Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Re: Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Post by jm4 »

ashleyn wrote: post #16

Only slightly unrelated, but I've been thinking a lot lately about prion disease and whether or not you can still trust the meat you eat. Easily a food safety concern that is ten times worse than getting a little diarrhea from your salad, and the same institutional rot can contribute to it. And it would take 5-10 years to really see the damage done from it.

A guy gets a worm in his brain, somehow becomes secretary of health, loosens all the rules so the rest of us have a higher chance of getting a brain worm. This is comic book villain kind of stuff. Can we start a serious discussion about whether we might be living in a simulation with a troll teenager at the controls?

Re: Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Post by instagib »

>>On Monday, however, the FDA said that the "false-positive lab sample DOES NOT change the basis for [the] FDA's ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms." The agency added that its "traceback investigation and outbreak data continue to converge on shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms locations in central Mexico."

The false positive "doesn't call into question the conclusion of the outbreak investigation," McEntire said. Had the positive test been confirmed, "it could've resulted in a substantially expanded recall." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-farms-cyclospora-outbrea...

I like the part where they say “No Taylor Farms branded products are involved in this recall.” As in there are other brands they do not mention which were but do not list them which they could own and distribute under.

https://www.taylorfarms.com/newsroom/taylor-fresh-foods-stat...

Re: Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Post by voidfunc »

jm4 wrote: post #21
ashleyn wrote: post #16

Only slightly unrelated, but I've been thinking a lot lately about prion disease and whether or not you can still trust the meat you eat. Easily a food safety concern that is ten times worse than getting a little diarrhea from your salad, and the same institutional rot can contribute to it. And it would take 5-10 years to really see the damage done from it.

A guy gets a worm in his brain, somehow becomes secretary of health, loosens all the rules so the rest of us have a higher chance of getting a brain worm. This is comic book villain kind of stuff. Can we start a serious discussion about whether we might be living in a simulation with a troll teenager at the controls?

If were living in a simulation then all of this is meaningless :)

Re: Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Post by solfox »

pm90 wrote: post #12

The US Federal Government has been meaningfully degraded by the brazen corruption of the people in power. Already there was a crisis of faith in authority; this is just going to make it much much worse. I wonder if its time to rethink some of these institutions. It seems like Food Safety is especially important to the welp being of society; it might make sense to have food testing labs in every major population cente…

Generally the industry DOES lobby for regulation. In a deregulated industry, there's a rush towards the bottom - which means trust in the industry implodes. They don't want that. I don't believe the current administration is actually in line with the industry as a whole.

Re: Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Post by Hikikomori »

jiqiren wrote: post #13
pm90 wrote: post #12

The US Federal Government has been meaningfully degraded by the brazen corruption of the people in power. Already there was a crisis of faith in authority; this is just going to make it much much worse. I wonder if its time to rethink some of these institutions. It seems like Food Safety is especially important to the welp being of society; it might make sense to have food testing labs in every major population cente…

Seems because of Supreme Court ruling practically every federal agency likely needs to be re-chartered to have the same structure as the Federal Reserve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerial_rule

Re: Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Post by Arodex »

jm4 wrote: post #21
ashleyn wrote: post #16

Only slightly unrelated, but I've been thinking a lot lately about prion disease and whether or not you can still trust the meat you eat. Easily a food safety concern that is ten times worse than getting a little diarrhea from your salad, and the same institutional rot can contribute to it. And it would take 5-10 years to really see the damage done from it.

A guy gets a worm in his brain, somehow becomes secretary of health, loosens all the rules so the rest of us have a higher chance of getting a brain worm. This is comic book villain kind of stuff. Can we start a serious discussion about whether we might be living in a simulation with a troll teenager at the controls?

Can we start a serious discussion about whether you might start taking responsibility of who you elect instead of wasting your time fantasizing?

I mean, it is not as if RFK was the darling candidate of HN at one time?

Re: Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

davidw wrote: post #17

"No shit?" jokes aside, it seems like a bad corporate strategy. Rather than owning up and doing what they can to protect their customers, they kept trying to hide, and now Taylor Farms is going to forever be associated in customers minds with explosive diarrhea.

They tried to hide it before the news got out in the first place; the reason executives in general are so excited about Trump is that they think he's going to let them bribe their way out of anything. I'm a bit surprised to hear no bribe was accepted here, although I suppose an uncontrolled explosive diarrhea outbreak would be hard for regime officials to keep a lid on.

Re: Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Post by monkpit »

Arodex wrote: post #26
jm4 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A guy gets a worm in his brain, somehow becomes secretary of health, loosens all the rules so the rest of us have a higher chance of getting a brain worm. This is comic book villain kind of stuff. Can we start a serious discussion about whether we might be living in a simulation with a troll teenager at the controls?

Can we start a serious discussion about whether you might start taking responsibility of who you elect instead of wasting your time fantasizing? I mean, it is not as if RFK was the darling candidate of HN at one time?

Yes because everyone else on HN is one hivemind, other than you of course.

Re: Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

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Post by monkpit »

davidw wrote: post #19
projectileboy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well… the system mostly worked for a pretty long time. As I used to tell my kids, if you try hard enough to break something, you’ll probably succeed.

Breaking things is also a lot easier than building complex things.

Which, funnily enough, is _also_ something you can teach your children.
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