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I mean, I agree, but listeria is a common pathogen in prepared foods and unpasteurized dairy. It occasionally escapes pasteurization, too. Just last year, Canada had an outbreak of listeria as well, coming from a plant in Pickering, and it killed at least three people.
Definitely Buy Local, but this isn't what makes US foods shit.
This article is terrible, too. It says that ten people were hospitalized, but partway into the article, you get this nugget:
So they're juicing the hospitalizations to make the numbers scarier. There's a conversation to be had about listeria-laden food being served to patients, but listeria itself is an industry-wide problem that even developed countries still deal with.
That's not the case in pickering.
Further, I understand your frustration at the statistics being manipulated somewhat, but listeria really is a public threat and should be taken very seriously.
Absolutely, it is very serious. Just pointing out that OP's argument that US food is shit because of listeria is not sound.
There are many reasons why US food is terrible, but we don't need to invent imaginary ones to point that out.
The full paragraph that you cut off is:
Which very clearly indicates not that they're juicing the numbers, but that the prepared food supplier sold their contaminated food products to hospitals where they got patients sick.