Trump administration axes two food safety committees
www.newsweek.com
The move comes as President Donald Trump's administration pushes to streamline federal agencies and reduce costs.
  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    59·
    2 days ago

    In a way it’s a good thing that other countries are boycotting US products, they’ll avoid getting sick by eating American food.

  • thefluffiest@feddit.nl
    22·
    2 days ago

    And then the Orange Führer asks WHY Europe doesn’t want to import American foodstuffs.

    Keep your pink sludge, thank you very much

        • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 days ago

          They’re not wrong. Food Safety has been under attack by Republicans for years and Democrats won’t fight for it, letting it continue to be defunded and understaffed. The politicians don’t care about us.

          • then_three_more@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            To be honest, from everything I’ve heard about you food “standards” it sounds like the Republicans won a very long time ago

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          To be fair, it’s not The Jungle level, although, yes, things could be far, far better all the way around. Ideally, the government would stop being a huge booster for eating redonkulous amounts of meat, dairy and eggs.

          There are many, many things that could be done better, but Bronzo seems poised to show us how much better things have advanced since the days of The Jungle.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Even before Bronzo set about to break things, there are a few gaps - like the way shit-water from farms can end up being sprayed on vegetables, thus giving food-borne illnesses that should not even be a thing to vegetarians, too.

        That said, the system works far better than it could be. Things could always get worse, and the idiots that voted for Bronzo and fElon are about to find out just how stupid the claim that “government never did anything for ME, so let’s break it!!” really is…

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    If you haven’t tried any yet, meat alternatives are really, really good now. Impossible meat, Quorn, and Seitan are all excellent alternatives, Quorn and Impossible in particular are, to me, indistinguishable from the real thing.

    • Buckminster Fuller@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      Impossible meat,

      I remember reading that it may be even worse than regular meat because of all the artificial stuff they put into it. Is that still accurate or have they changed it? Last time I tried it, I thought it was great though.

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Looking at the ingredients list for the burger and chicken nuggets, there’s nothing jumping out at me as particularly unhealthy. Perhaps the sunflower oil isn’t ideal for pan frying, as it’s not a particularly stable oil at high temps unless it’s the high-oleic varity, but the coconut oil will hold up fine. Considering red meat has some fairly solid evidence now of increasing cancer risk, I suspect an impossible burger is potentially healthier than a real one.

        Beyond meat (the competitor to impossible) used to use some nasty oils that would oxidize during cooking and become quite unhealthy, but they recently reformulated using avacado oil, so they’re pretty solid now too, health wise. I think they have a slightly off flavor compared to impossible though.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I don’t think it’s meant as a health food, as far as reality goes, as well as their basic stance, IIRC. It’s more about offering up the occasional option.

        Personally, I treat it the same way as I would beef, if I still ate it - something to eat every once in a great big while. Usually, I’ll take that option if I’m eating somewhere with omnivores and the menu options are rather narrow…we also have some in the freezer at the house, but I maybe have one a month? Back when I still ate beef - a long time ago - I’d eat burgers at maybe about the same rate.

        With the jamokes they have running things now - even if I was an omnivore, there is no way you could get me to eat ground beef at a restaurant or cooked at home from the grocery store. It was already a rather high-risk item for fecal matter and so on. With these deregulation-addicted goons and people actively trying to break every government service, I’d say that risk is set to skyrocket.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    They sure are doing what they can to “make america healthy again”… by trying to permanently reduce the number of people with health conditions.