Jesus, how much of our food supply is tainted with listeria?
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
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It turns out that lowering safety standards across the board isn't good for our health. Who could have possibly seen this coming? Why, oh why did we lower standards on these enormous corporations that fuel our entire lives?!?
Oh yeah, money 🤑 I've made like $12 from investing in their stock, so everything's fine.
No safety standards. Need tax breaks. Billionaires bank accounts go brrrrrrr
When everything gets deregulated...
Consider the groups most likely impacted by a compromised food safety standard and decreased regulation. The rich aren't out buying Walmart brand waffles.
Wasn't Whole Foods and Trader Joe's hit by the chicken one too?
Do you think Elon Musk or Bill Gates shops at either of those?
Are those the only 2 rich people?
the parts that are tainted with E.coli probably don’t have listeria …
All of it.
FYI It's the vendor that target and Walmart use for their house brands, same with Aldi, not Eggo, for example
Should I just stop buying food for the rest of the year? Just recall after recall.
Ooof. TreeHouse foods is in a world of hurt. Listeria is incredibly hard to get rid of in a factory. It usually means shutting down the entire operation until everything is thoroughly steam -cleaned and sanitized. Then, an inspection team will go through the entire factory and swab everything with a q-tip. And I mean everything. Every little nook and cranny. If any of these samples comes back positive, the whole routine starts over again. It can take weeks.
I've known factories that literally choose to shut the entire plant down and build a new one rather than try to sanitize the one they had.
Listeria is no joke
Eggo brand were not affected. Here's the list of store brands that are:
- Aldi's (Breakfast Best brand)
- Dollar General (Clover Valley brand)
- Food Lion
- Giant Eagle
- Hannaford
- Harris Teeter
- H-E-B
- PriceChopper (PICS brand)
- Publix
- Schnucks
- Southeastern Grocers
- Target (Good & Gather brand)
- Tops
- Walmart (Great Value brand)
Also these brands:
- Foodhold
- Kodiak Cakes (I've seen these at Stop & Shop)
- Simple Truth
Simple Truth is a Kroger brand.
I was wondering why the register told me not to sell those yesterday
Not going Eggo was their first mistake. In my experience, when it comes to frozen waffles, there is no room to fuck around.
Agreed 100%. There is no replacement for Eggos
I think at this point it's probably easier to just list which foods don't have listeria these days.
Okay, I'll let you have my Eggo after all.
As someone who recently bought Eggo waffles and was worriedly reading the article: you can keep your hands off my Eggo, it was store brand stuff that was affected.
You have an Ayn Rand view of breakfast. Be altruistic with your Eggo.
I'm just trying to provide more information for people who, like me, may have thought that their family might have been at risk because I bought freezer waffles.
It was a joke.
I was trying to nicely tell you I did not appreciate it.
WTF? Not even WAFFLES are safe now?
What does one use as syrup on Narwhal waffles, ambergris?
Nah, the blue ones are safe... ish.
Are those only for eating at midnight?
Goddamn, is nothing safe?
Yeah, because of this I’ll lego my Eggos.
Eggos are fine. Do not leggo.
Fuck me, I just bought some blueberry waffles.
Eh, probably needed to cut back on monocalcium phosphate, sodium aluminium phosphate, and mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids anyhow.