Why is RFK next to the picture of tofu? Is it because he looks like a tofu?
yes, aged fermented tofu.
Hey gang. Quick reminder from recent history:
There was a train derailment incident that was so bad it got US national attention. Spilled a bunch of chemicals into a sensitive area where people live and it polluted a nearby river system.
For months after that story, the media ran more and more derailment stories. Because public outrage about the issue was popular enough that they could keep highlighting ongoing derailments and keep getting clicks and views. Everyone thought it was some new problem we weren’t addressing or that someone caused.
The reality wasn’t that derailments were suddenly some big new problem we needed to fix. Nothing new was happening to cause them. America’s train systems have had this problem for ages. The news just never thought to report on them with as much significance before because the public didn’t seem to care. Only when it affected an area where people live.
I know some of what the Trump administration has done is particularly egregious. I’m not defending them one bit. Nearly every recall we’ve had with meat and produce has some tie to recent food safety deregulation. Now, however, we have to be careful not to fall into recency bias. We have food recalls all the damn time.
This tofu contamination recall is incredibly small. There are seemingly no ties to administration changes in food and drug safety. What the media, and social media, are doing by highlighting more of these events is making the problem seem bigger and more dastardly than it is. They want the eyeballs on them for calling it out, no matter how well or poorly it fits into the narrative. And some of them want you to be scared to buy food.
Take the issue seriously, but also have some discernment.
well RFK jr drips methylene blue into his coffee, he wouldnt mind the ink.
Christ, what the fuck are we supposed to eat anymore? I was leaning vegetarian anyway to curb and cut out meat, but now with veg and fruit and goddamn TOFU being fucked with: what the hell am I going to be able to eat? I’m pretty sure most of us here don’t want McD’s for lots of obvious reasons, and it’s not as cheap as it was before anyway, idk man. Fuck this place. I’d say let’s eat the rich, but we might get diseases and worms from them too! I don’t know which is it that they deserve: a cross, a ditch, or a guillotine?
“Freedom” Tm
Its what is (and all) for dinner!
It’s a tofu fried in chili oil. The heat and oil made ink from the packing film leak through. Presumably adding a cooling step or different packing would solve it.
And it’s 10,000 cases. Sounds like a large number, but in a country of 350,000,000, that’s not that much.
A case of 12 packs of tofu is $60 on the highest end. So this is at most $600,000 worth of tofu.
There is $467,000,000 to $521,000,000 worth of tofu sold in the US every year.
This is a recall of about 1/10th of 1% of the tofu market.
This does happen frequently. Food recalls happen all the time. Under Biden it averaged 135 recalls per month. This term under Trump it’s 126 per month. Under his first term it was 164 per month.
The recalls are NOT the metric to look at though. Recalls are normal. Look at when that recall metric starts to really drop off, because then you know the lack of regulation has taken effect and the companies are no longer letting you know when something has gone wrong.
Recalls are a sign the regulations are working. If recalls go down, there are only two outcomes. Companies are either going above and beyond regulations (LOL) or regulations have relaxed to allow them to not report issues.
More recalls are not an issue. Fewer recalls are.
presumably removing the packaging material before you subject any food to heat might help as well.
Deregulation <3
I said this to my wife and she asked “How?” My response was that RFK must be spinning a wheel. I still don’t know how tf they’ve done this.
Which would be fine except the ink is contaminated with that Hungarian bloodshitting virus
But what’s the Hungarian bloodshitting virus contaminated with
RFK Jr has confirmed that addiction to air will make you gay and dead, so you should stop using air immediately unless you’re gay or dead.
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soy ink right?
