We just had this happen and NBC broke this about an outbreak from Nov 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236 and you have the lead in baby food https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/04/15/target-recall-baby-food-lead/83105523007/
Good luck everyone
This isnt good for anybody, wtf.
It’s good for shady meat producers who were already doing disgusting crap before. Don’t eat pork for sure.
Less regulations means reduced production costs for the oligarch corporate owners. So it is good for them and them only, as every single policy coming from the Trump administration.
Yeah, except they have to eat the food produced in the U.S. too. You cant have everything imported all the time.
But they have their chefs prepare and cook their foods, they can afford the clean version, they’re still protected from the consequences of their actions because of their money
When the FDA is abolished, will Kinder Surprise eggs be legal?
Sure, but we won’t be able to afford them because of the tarrifs…
If we are going back to member land, can we at least get that Heroin/Cannabis cough syrup, Benzedrine pills and cocaine throat lozenges over the counter again?
And wood dust in flour, plaster in milk, listeria, heavy metals in candy, lead sweetener, arsenic in paint…
Well yeah, but that’s a given now that imports are taxed 10 to 245% and the FDA has been defunded.
… what are we supposed to fucking do? I can stop eating meat but it’s not like I can stop eating altogether. Am I just going to get food poisoning a few times over the course of this nightmare administration? Do I have to wait 4 fucking years to enjoy eating without worrying about getting sick?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
I worked in an industrial bakery for a while and was so mortified by the cleanliness and safety conditions that I basically only ate fresh vegetables & fruits and dry beans for several months because I was so worried about eating anything that had been under a factory roof
Was it good for my dietary health? Probably, but I spent a ridiculous amount of time on cooking and food prep and neglected other areas of my life to make up for it.
Everything sucks.
And yet the US wants Europe to eat the shit food from the US. This must be a great advertisement for that.
Fuuuuuuck everything about this country
Preach. We’re pathetic losers.
I gotta grow my own food now. It is time to break out the off-grid post-apocalyptic survival books for me, I guess. Can’t be too hard, rightttttt!?
Growing is half the battle. Then you have the critter and weeding mitigation to do. They make inside hydroponics areo grow but except for herbs will get really expensive for any usable quantity
I bet. I was thinking about buying a survival book or two.
SAS guidebook.
I will have to check that one out. I heard of it.
It’s written by a British Special Air Service (SAS) guy (John Wiseman) that covers emergency preparedness, urban survival, and wilderness survival.
Tried and true methods. Probably one of the most condensed/complete for what we’re looking for.
Pretty sure there’s an app with all of its info indexed. Just a few mb.
Edit: nvm the app is no longer free. F that.
I could just find it free online.
Over the past few years I’ve come across some survival ebooks. The first bundle was from some random google drive link on reddit and the second bundle I got came from a humble bundle.
You can download them here: https://drive.proton.me/urls/QWA614FTX0#TXeqSBVzjzk5
Not as convenient as a physical book but it’s something :)
Thank you.
Kratky method for hydroponics
Oh, wow. That is unsettling.
Just grow an acre or two of wheat and corn on your balcony.
I don’t belive the headline is accurate, based on my reading of the article.
It looks line they area going to continue reading the food for safety. What they have stopped doing is making sure the tests are run properly.
I’m not suggesting that this is a noteworthy improvement, nor am I 100% sure my reading is correct. But I prefer the accurate information to the inaccurate.
What the utter fuck.
The FDA was already fucking worthless. I got severe food poisoning from some grocery store pre-boiled eggs some years ago, and when I asked them to look into it to prevent other people getting sick, they just connected me with the grocery store lawyers who were just useless and defensive.
You should’ve called your state or local dept of health, they have direct oversight of in-store prepared products.
I’ve ended up in the ER with food poisoning twice in my life. Had to call the ambulance both times, worst $3k sandwich of my life. It’s terrible.
That’s textbook anecdotal evidence…
Yeah, that’s fair.
Who had The Jungle, Part 2 on their 2025 Bingo card?
He was big on massive deregulation in favour of the industry oligarchs in his previous administration as well. So this one was kinda easy to predict.
Trump is Jonestowning the entire country.
Fucking yikes
