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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

as an American who has worked inside the US food system for closing on 2 decades, I would never recommend importing any food or ingredients from this completely fucked joint. the default should always been to suspect it as contaminated and substandard, so unless you are developing some highly specific relational sales and distribution channel with an individual person you can trust for a specific thing, find it or an alternative somewhere the fuck else.

a handful of countries buy a lot of commodities from the US because our environmental and agricultural production/processing labor regulations range from lax to non existent. throw in some of the subsidy structures, and it makes some of these commodities cheap and abundant compared to their regional analogs.

but a supply chain that will fuck over the very environment, communities and specific people it directly depends on will absolutely fuck over its buyers/customers downstream.

buyer beware.

Please explain more comrade-birdie

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Europe doesn't want American slop because the US' rate of food poisoning is obscenely higher than it is in Europe. 14.6% of USians get food poisoning per year while in the UK it's 1.4% and in the rest of Europe it's comparable.

Keep that shit as far away from me as possible please and thank you.

[–] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

wtf I had no idea the discrepancy was so high, lmao

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

It's a really illuminating statistic. Some of it is education, which is better here too, but a lot is regulations.

[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jesus, who's bringing the numbers so far up? I should have had food poisoning, well, a lot more than the one time I've had it. Is there a group of people who leave egg salad on the counter overnight despite multiple bad reactions to that?

Or wait, do all those pukey days as a kid count even if they were never officially diagnosed?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Or wait, do all those pukey days as a kid count even if they were never officially diagnosed?

They use models for estimates that include those yes. The CDC does it in the US, whereas the UK uses something called the FDEM model. They're comparable though.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

Thats because ya belly SAWFT. Americans temper their intestinal fortitude through trials by combat

[–] SmunchBucket@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

My coworker got food poisoning at work the other day. Was puking everywhere, spat out his dentures, covered in sweat. Wild stuff.

I want the food to kill me. Drown me in the slop.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

It’s so funny to me when people try to seriously mimic Trump’s affectations and speaking style as though it’s anything other than the product of a dying brain clinging desperately to life. It’d be like if Democrat talking heads started performatively falling down stairs or pretending they’d forgotten where they were.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago

The Democrats don't even need to pretend, they're just as geriatric.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

They see us tankies do it and are mad they didn't come up with it first. a-little-trolling

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's like historical fads where some inbred King had shitty teeth so they dyed them black to hide the cavities, and all of a sudden everyone starts dying their teeth an ugly black color to look more like the king. It's just tooth decay/dementia dog, you don't have to copy it, and now everyone looks like a fucking freak.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 38 points 3 days ago

What do you mean you don't want bird flu and chlorine in your chicken?

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

our chickens are about to cause the birdemic thats why they dont want em

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

beautiful

One of Trump's favorite ridiculous descriptors. I'm sure that's not a coincidence.

"I know words. I have the best words" tromp

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Won't you sample some of our bird flu chicken? Joe Rogan says it's best raw along with his good pal, Dr. Peterson!

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

25 years ago there was a big problem with livestock in Europe. Maybe :lets-say-youre-a-guy: hasn't moved past that.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

Tariffs aside, you have a great unclean one of nurgle as head of healthcare trying to spread his gifts everywhere and this doge thing trying their best to deregulate what they can.