Stop putting fascist spin in the damn headline.
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Add the FDA to the ever-growing list of bootlicking cowards.
As someone who lives in the US what the fuck am I supposed to do now? Just shop at bougie grocery stores and pray that those brands are still following some kind of standards? I don't want to leave my home but I am worried it's just going to keep getting worse and worse and I am too disabled to fight in a civil war if it comes to that.
Some tips are:
- Buy from local farms if you can. The fewer steps from you, the fewer chances for the food to be contaminated.
- Cook everything. Spinach and other greens will not be clean from simply being washed. No chances, you cook everything like you cook chicken.
- Grow what you can. Sometimes all you can get away with is an herb plant, sometimes you can have tubers.
These types of obstacles are usually better tackled as a community than individualistically. Talking with your neighbors and friends so you can all work together on this stuff is usually your best bet.
Lmao at that last part my neighbors voted for all of this and are apparently incapable of seeing any kind of problem with anything the administration does so I feel like I'd have ac tough time getting them on board with a food co-op thing
Yes, even in the bougie stores, you're going to have issues.
They do realize that a majority of republicans (who are elderly) are more susceptible to disease and death than the libs they think they're dunking on right? Same goes for the children they claim to be protecting by doing all this. The children and the elderly are most susceptible to sickness and death from it, that's not to say that anyone can't get sick from food-borne illness, but their own and the ones they claim to protect will be disproportionately affected.
Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice he is willing to make.
Is this a Simpsons episode?
Lol.
Such a profoundly, comically stupid society.
I swear even before this stuff I've noticed quality slipping. The same kinda cost-cutting that makes simple things like packaging work less well than it did when I was a kid (how often does a bag of something's zipper just rip off and make it impossible to close the thing??)...I could swear I'm starting to see that cost squeeze hit the quality of the products. Finding bones in chicken more often, various grossness in deli meat more often. To say nothing of the reports of nasty conditions at plants that keep coming up.
Maybe it's all the children working the meat packing plants these days, I've always said children make terrible butchers! Should be exciting to see how much more interesting all our food products get in coming years.
All jokes aside, I recently went in on a quarter cow with a friend, from a local rancher. Not an option for everyone, I realize, but I'm starting to buy more locally. I hate to be doom and gloom, but the institutions keeping us safe are being dismantled, visibly, in front of us. And they were not exactly thriving before, either.
The brain worms are in full control and are starting to try to take over the United States.
This is like that one show, The Strain on fx where’s that old guy with a walking cane when you need him?
Out of all of the worms our country could get, why didn't we get the ones from a truckstop men's room eggsalad. We could have been stronger than Hercules and smarter than Cher. But nooo, we had to get ones that like dying political dynasty afterbirth, wonderful.
Truck stop egg sandwiches were my first choice also.
Survival of the fittest
I'm not sure that's how that works, but it's an idea.
So... In the best possible situation, different states would have very different quality of food. Bribes ("donations" as politcorrect Americans call them) are easier at a local scale.