Charles Pierce notes that a massive recall of ground beef was issued Friday due to E.

William Lindsey :toad:

Charles Pierce notes that a massive recall of ground beef was issued Friday due to E. coli outbreak. Also: Sunday, CDC announced that one person has died and three dozen others have been sickened due to E. coli infections from carrots sold by major grocery chains. Between May and September, ten people died and 61 were sickened in 19 states due to listeria-contaminated Boar's Head deli products.

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The Public Health Is About to Take a Turn into the Bizarre

Perhaps you were too busy noticing that the country was in a drought to notice that our food was killing people from one coast to another. This is just the beginning.

Esquire (www.esquire.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

As he states,

"The commitment in this country to healthy food was one of the triumphs of the 20th Century. And it was as much a political triumph as it was a scientific triumph, & it was a tough, uphill slog against the combined forces of the money power of the monopolists from all facets of the economy—from agriculture, and from medicine, and from the railroads, and from all the politicians whom the money power had sublet during the Gilded Age."

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William Lindsey :toad:

And now along come Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mehmet Oz, Joseph Lapado as Trump's public-health wrecking balls, and what's going to happen to the controls we count on to try to keep us healthy, to keep us from encountering dangerous food peddled by people caring about profit and not our health?

The future looks dark, indeed, for anyone with eyes to see.

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🇺🇸Vaniaji

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Urzl

@wdlindsy Irradiated food would be safer but we have a combined superstition about radiation and NIMBY problems building the infrastructure here in the US.

We can't replace normal food safety with *nothing* but that's clearly the direction we're headed.

Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

@wdlindsy Paywalled. Doesn't seem to be available on Archive. Thanks for the excerpts at least.

David 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 he/they

@wdlindsy The food side of the FDA is already underfunded and broken. I shudder to think how much worse it’s going to get.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nonya_Bidniss Webpage Archive is how I read it, actually. This link should take you to the article at that site:

archive.ph

(archive.ph)

If that doesn't work, then try going to this link and entering the url for the article: https://archive.ph

William Lindsey :toad:

@SailorDisco Same here. I think we're in for some eye-opening experiences, those of us who live through it, that is.

William Lindsey :toad:

@gooba42 Yes, we're susceptible to some stunning bizarre ideas in the US, when it comes to food and health. The pandemic and the alacrity with which many of us gobbled up misinformation has only opened the door wider to all of this nonsense.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Vaniaji Indeed.

Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

@wdlindsy Huh. When I went there before I posted, only one sample came up and it has the paywall in it. I'm seeing that happen more frequently. Thanks for the links though. I was using archive.is but sometimes use archive.ph when it's down.

William Lindsey :toad:

Benjamin Mazer calls what Trump's proposing to do to public medicine with his nominations the "revenge of the COVID contrarians." "They’re angry at the public-health establishment. Now they’re in control of it," he says. And:

What unites them all—and what legitimizes them in the eyes of this next administration—is a lasting rage over COVID."

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Revenge of the COVID Contrarians

They’re angry at the public-health establishment. Now they’re in control of it.

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"In addition to eroding our democracy and constitutional norms, the incoming Trump Administration presents one of the greatest modern threats to the safety, health, and well-being of American families.

A plurality of American voters decided they were fine with possibly dying just to temporarily feel great again."

~ Wajahat Ali

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MAGA Makes Death Great Again

In addition to eroding our democracy and constitutional norms, the incoming Trump Administration presents one of the greatest modern threats to the safety, health, and well-being of American families.

(thelefthook.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nonya_Bidniss You've taught me something, that there are two separate urls for that site. I hadn't known of the .is one.