RFK and the Republican deregulation shits keep coming.
I live in rural NY and went to a local Amish produce stand last weekend, and asked if they had any lettuce available and they said they sell out of lettuce every single morning. They can’t grow it fast enough. America’s industrial food supply system is failing.
As a Canadian
EVERYONE has TDS! I don’t remember YOU PEOPLE Complaining about ALL THESE FOOD RECALLS under Joe BYEDIN! The ONLY solution is TDS and NOT the Illegal Immigrant Elon Musk FIRING Hundred of Thousands of people whos Job was to PREVENT this Type of thing!
Why is it every time the repugnitcants dErEgUlAtE something everything goes to shit
At this point companies all over the world are just sending bad batches of food to the USA.
If only it was possible to verify the quality of food before people eat it…
Cook from scratch as much as possible and wash produce with specialized soap.
I need to know how E. Coli can survive being frozen. I thought for sure frozen stuff was safe.
Frozen berries now, too?!?
GreenWise-brand organic blueberries on July 3, which later expanded on July 29 to include GreenWise frozen mixed berries
Sold at Publix.
Have Americans considered importing food so they don’t have to risk eating American food?
Do you even understand what you’re asking? The lettuce was IMPORTED from Mexico via Taylor Farms. These berries may have as well.
The distributors hide their supply chain and claim it to be “industry secrets” to keep us from knowing where we get our food.
This shit is insane.
Who cares where the food comes from? It’s a drop in quality control thanks to these businesses feeling emboldened by Trump’s gutting of regulatory agencies that’s the problem.
It matters for the same reason knowing who sold it matters. If the farm in Mexico supplied multiple sources, then you can avoid it if you’re aware. The degradation in quality and regulation is all the fault of the US government, and that is in turn the fault of Taylor for not holding their farms to higher standards…
I’m sure they know that, no country grows every crop sold at stores. It’s the usual “le american bad” that’s beat like a dead horse here lol
Usually rightfully so but man is it just getting a tad boring
America is bad but it’s all the complaining about things that humanity as a whole is bad for then pretending it’s America only that’s so damn annoying. They think they popped out of a golden non American vagina just for being on different soil. They can’t see the irony in the way they think.
True, too much America bad, mixed some (not all) with incognito ml users who glaze NK for example.
Taylor Farms is based in California
And they import their food from distributors in Mexico. Why is this hard?
Is America good?
Did I say it was? Is it the worst?
I asked a question. Can you not answer it?
In the context of this thread, with fucking up agencies, causing more risk to its citizens under the guise of “cutting costs” while the national debt just went to 40 Trillion today. Yeah it’s bad for that. Gaza bad too if that gives you warm fuzzies.
Were you expecting a different answer?
I don’t think blanket “everything about X is bad because Y” is a healthy way to view the world.
I just wondered if there was any thought process other than very boring very overused platitudes I’ve seen on every forum known to man
More than 1/3 of America’s produce is imported.
That’s most of the problem, the diarrhea lettuce was coming from Mexico.
That being said, Farmer (possibly third-party, likely exclusively contracted to meet Taylor standards)->Processed by Taylor facility in Mexico->Taylor Fresh Foods->Taylor Farms->Grocery store.
The entire supply chain was Taylor the whole way regardless of what country and their “safety” checks failed.
But several stages had US safety inspections in the past.
Taylor produces millions of pounds of food every season. Impossible to avoid contamination.
Montezuma’s revenge!
Monsanto’s Revenge
Hahahahaha! Nailed it
Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A first initiated a recall…
They’re from Chile…
Most of the people I know are expanding their gardens
Not necessarily cheap work, if you don’t already have good soil and such. It’s also more time intensive than people realize.
Recommend strawberries in the ground, tomatoes, snap peas, and zucchini for the easy stuff. To learn.
Anyone looking to build their soil should look up Korean Natural Farming. Cultivate and feed your local microbes and they’ll feed you. And it’s cheap.
Your comment was the firstI have heard about KNF. As an eternally skeptical microbiologist, I suspected it to be similar to many “organic” farming methods, some of which isn’t scientifically sound, but just gave it a quick review and it seems to be based on some solid principles. I’ll be looking into it for my own garden. Thanks for the recommendation!
I don’t plow, till or weed much. No tiller. Just hand tools - round point shovel, hoe and five tine fork. Clay soil. Brought sand in and use old hay bales for mulch. Soil is fantastic. Very little cost. Very little work. Huge harvest. No harmful pesticides. Those who want to garden should read Ruth Stout and Masanobu Fukuoka
I have cedars that aggressively invade any gardening attempt that isn’t hard-sealed. I have some native berry plants doing alright, they’ve evolved to handle it, but actual food crops are a huge waste of time.
Anyone calling any variety of squash “easy” haven’t ever gardened and dealt with squash bugs (vine borer)
Fair. My issue is cruciferous turning holy and then dead, no matter what I spray them with.
I use trap crops entirely now and that really does help tremendously with cruciferous, especially using nasturtium, but yeah, I’ve given up on Brussels sprouts here. Nothing seems to save them.
Wee Americans should stop exporting these water-intensive crops such as pistachios
Wee Americans are tiny Americans, why are they growing pistachios?
I can’t wait for the Pistachio Lobby and Data Center Lobby to have a range war over water rights. We can wager on it on Kalshi.
It’s the 21st century!
That’s how I am so flummoxed by their water demands! I am just a tiny pistachio
Is there a list of stuff safe to eat?
Anything imported is safe, but then you’ll be paying a tariff on it, sooooo…
The rich.
Ugh, do you know where they’ve been??!
Raccoon peen, whale carcass, bear testicles.
And don’t forget your “ferments”.
The list keeps growing. My solution is to not eat a lot and wash my food and hands really well. I figure the less I eat the less chance I’ll get something.
Deregulation-induced anorexia? That’s a new one for me.
Don’t write it off. It’s also good for my wallet and bloodwork.
It’s all safe, until it is not.
Stuff you grow at home or the local farmers market
Local small farmers are completely unregulated and untested for the foods they produce.
That’s not necessarily true at all.
It just varies by jurisdiction and the claims a farm makes.
Always worth a visit to the local farms either way.
That’s not necessarily true at all.
Dude, you have three people now in charge of food safety for 400 million, you think they are checking every mom and pop farm?
You think there aren’t local authorities as well? I have friends that work for organic certification groups friends that work for state agricultural agencies, nevermind the collectives, granges, growing associations, and counties.
Not to mention the farmers markets themselves that also have food handling and produce handling guidelines.
And again, you can go visit the farms. Lots of people know thier local farms and do CSA’s.
Curious why you are saying what you are. What experience do you have with local farmers markets?
What experience do you have with local farmers markets?
They are overpriced and sellers are heavy on the organic bullshit. Ok for local white wine moms. Good source of raw milk.
Organic bullshit. Huh. So you don’t know much about them at all?
Do you even know what a CSA is?
Yet still more trustable than government agencies that control quality.
You mean government agencies that don’t control quality, since that’s what’s causing this problem. Food was plenty “trustable” when we actually had government agencies controlling quality.
Yeah. Those raw milk sellers are the paragon of food safety.
Also,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X26000657
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11633565/
The lack of tracking of foodborne illnesses because in the US farmers markets are mostly exempt from regulations and tracking, doesn’t correlate to safer food.
Jesus, science better.
Well, when talking about this particular administration’s government I can understand why people would be suspect.
I mean sure, since this US MAGA administration gutted the FDA’s already stretched ability to inspect the thousands of factories but the blanket statement that unregulated farmers markets are more trustable than ANY given government regulatory body, which is how I interpreted the statement, not US Republican regulatory body is incorrect, especially from someone that has a lemmy.ca after their name.
I guess we should start rounding up all the “lemmy.ca” people. Any other generic groups you’d like to add to the list? We’ve got enough torches and pitchforks for everybody.
You’ve been having dinner with RFK, Jr, haven’t you?
garbage disposal voice noises
Must have been accidentally exposed to vaccines
blueberry is called the Vaccinum genus
Sold in Publix locations across eight states, the affected products have been removed from shelves, according to the FDA, but have expiration dates into 2028, meaning they could still be in freezers.
“Customers who have purchased the following frozen GreenWise products are reminded not to consume them,” the agency said in a July 30 notice.
The diaper always leaks downhill
Worst trickle-down conceivable.
Right onto the lettuce farm
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