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    19 days ago

    These are “people” that have never read The Jungle.

    (Assuming they’ve ever read any book at all…)

    Guess we’ll be expanding our diet to maggots, bug parts, and salmonella/e-coli whether we want them or not.

    🙄 🤡 🖕

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        18 days ago

        A perfect opportunity to venture into the wonderful world of mycology. Learn how to find and identify mushrooms in nature and how to grow your own mushrooms at home. Why limit yourself to supermarket mushrooms?

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          Recommend growing what you know is safe. The amount of “could kill you” mushrooms in the US is fairly low IIRC, but the amount of “this looks almost identical to an edible species but will make your day/week Not Fun” species is high enough in most places that I wouldn’t chance my luck on foraging.

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            17 days ago

            There are some safe ones that are easy for even beginners to identify reliably, such as morels, but of course people should be careful with harvesting wild mushrooms and should never consume amy without being certain as to what each mushroom is. Even experienced mushroom foragers make mistakes sometimes, especially when similar looking mushrooms grow close together.

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    18 days ago

    Better get your freedom gardens in order folks. Good time of year to plant them, right now!

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    18 days ago

    Let the mass poisonings … BEGIN!

    USA currently ranks 49th for life expectancy at birth and will be going lower fast. What a shithole country.

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    18 days ago

    Canadians already mostly stopped buying food from US sources because of the tarrifs, this will be another added reason to stop buying US sourced food.

    Hey buy our extra expensive food, now with extra fungus and bacteria! Exta extra illness, buy it while it’s fresh!

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    18 days ago

    That’s easily going to cost Americans Billions in addition healthcare that we already can’t afford

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      17 days ago

      Food testing isn’t really needed when the food runs out. This administration is just thinking ahead.

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    18 days ago

    Wow! But don’t you all worry, as soon as one of us gets sick or dies, we’ll know who hot food poisoning. And we’ll continued eating it up. Did I miss anything? Like maybe reacting differently to such an event? Nah! That’s why chicken is so expensive! Its all the chlorine!

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    17 days ago

    Remember to thoroughly cook your food and wash your hands. Including fruit and vegetables now, apparently.

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      17 days ago

      wont stop the toxins from poisoning you, most bacterial toxins are heat stable. the most problematic bacteria would E.coli O15:H7 since it produces a nasty toxin that cause uremic syndrome, and hemorrhagic diarrhea. its a problem when the bacteriophage is present which carries the plasmid for the toxins which infects bacteria giving them the toxin produciing abilities. some bacterial toxins come from lysogenic bacteriophages(viruses), otherwise the bacteria would be most harmless

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    18 days ago

    I’m going to just stick to frozen veggies and cooking them bitches in the oven or skillet. Also, I’ve been hoarding canned food from Aldi made in Germany.

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    17 days ago

    Companies still have to feed people and not get them sick. Or no return customers.

    This is a stupid ass decision but trust the profit lines here. Companies will not want to poison their customers, it’s just bad for business.

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      It’ll be like the good old days before the FDA when the warning sign that food was contaminated was people dying and companies regularly put additives like sawdust in food because it made their profits better.

      We tried self-regulation of all these industries. That’s why we created government regulation.

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      No they’ll just add things that won’t kill them until they’ve extracted plenty of repeat purchases from them.