“Your firm reprocesses moldy applesauce product … using a method that is not effective against all toxic metabolites,” read the FDA letter sent Oct. 20 to Jimmie L. Davis, Snokist’s president. “Several foodborne molds may be hazardous to human health.”
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Another example of excessive government regulation. Obama is stifling free enterprise. Companies should be allowed to make a profit regardless of how many people they poison! Thank god that the common sense republicans and tea party congressmen are fighting this over-regulation of American businesses!
Please extract head from your rear orifice and consider the fact that they had been allowing this stuff to be sold until _after_ at least 9 people actually got sick at which point in time they pretty much had no choice about doing _something_.
They had not been checking the product for safety unless you think feeding it to school kids is the right way to safety test food.
Apple sauce is an almost daily item on our school menu. The same menu as every other school in the county. There is absolutely no freaking way to even began to guess how many people actually ate tainted food and got sick.
Do-ill==yuk, yuk!!! Your sublime subtlety does crack me up. I have to review your entire posting history. Here I thought you were a flaming rightwingnut but you are a performance artist.
Imagine criticizing this most excellent post by emphasizing its well executed sarcastic point. The stupidity of the right cannot be better demonstrated.
Well done. Do you write for Colbert?
Ha, ha. Whadda dolt.
Still stroking on the lost blog comment numbering?
And here we were all thinking you were a well adjusted person.
Thank you Bobo, but I’m surprised you had to check my history to detect the not-very-subtle sarcasm. And, I think snioer describes me better than performance artist!
oops, can’t type… meant sniper!
I think this pretty much fits in Mrs. Obama’s plan to have kids lose weight at school’ After the mega runs they’ll get is obvious they’ll get thinner.
Kudos for a plan well done. You can take that to the loo.
Great reply pedro.
Its like the dysentery diet.
Currently a favorite in the Sudan and sub-Saharan Africa. (Where we’re going to put boots on the ground [and on colored throats,] next.)
While process also improves the sheeple immune system long term and culls the weak, this is wrong.
Rethink your position because what if junior is accidentally served this by Maria, his Mexican illegal alien maid? Junior might get sick and miss the tether ball finals.
We NEED regulation!
Your overlord wants free border for illegals, so if you want to complaint about Maria, take with your Messiah. SHEEEEEEEEPLEEEEEEEE.
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Whee, enjoy.
It’s kinda lame but hey it’s Friday.
I meant to include in my post above, “I know I’m off topic but could’t help myself it’s Friday”.
“reconditioned for human consumption”
This phrase disturbs me beyond measure…
Soylent Green is made out of people…
Oh… Sorry. That’s “humans, reconditioned for consumption.“
hahaha, that’s funny
Finally, a fruit flavored soylent product.
soylent mold! it’s made from reprocessing!
yummy!
many years ago, while shopping in a local asian market, i found on the shelf, Mutant Gelatinous Coconut, i’m not kidding… that is what was printed on the label..
i think something was lost in the translation..
i wish i had bought it just for that label.
Heyyyyy. Wada ya want? Good grammar or good taste?
Its made by Snookie’s brothers… Yoo evah seen the Joyzee Shore?
Let ‘em poison a few kids and everybody’s in your fuggin’ grill like they was sellin’ ‘em crack-based designah steroids…
Ease off or they’ll come around to a little chat…
I guess that stuff would be a little more filling than these communion wafers when you have the munchies.
Mmmmmm, communion wafers and cheese dip.
You can’t just eat one of them…
Actually peanut butter on communion wafers is excellent and then top it off with a couple bottles of that communion wine. I’ve been known to pass out while puking in a pew or the confessional.
Dulce de leche is waaaaay better than peanut butter on communion wafers
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Not to worry: Donations to Obama’s campaign trump FDA.
This is the type of news I would expect about imported Chinese product. Sad.
And of course it is forbidden for children to bring lunch from home because that might be unhealthy.
“Let’s give it to Mikey!”
BigBoyBC says: “reconditioned for human consumption”
This phrase disturbs me beyond measure…
Grow up, little man. If you live in the west, and don’t grow your own food, a substantial portion of what you buy at the supermarket has been processed in ways that would make you nauseous to know about. That’s why your convenient microwavable Salisbury steak TV frozen dinner still only costs a buck. Sort of like sausage – tastes great until you find out how it’s made!
The problem here is not that the food was reprocessed but that it was done improperly and then fed to kids! In the words of Paul Simon: “When I think back to all the crap I ate in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all…” or something like that. (Apologies to ‘Kodachrome’)
PS: I love sausage here in the developing world. Just spit out the occasional chicken beak…
I hauled into canneries for a time; I still won’t eat “fruit cocktail”. Pretty much everything unsuitable far any reason (bruised, rotten, dropped, ugly) gets dumped into “fruit cocktail”.
Kids love it.
Animby, it’s you that needs to grow up and stop passing your opinions about food as fact. “If you live in the west…” you said, really? So people in the east have it better? Is this the same east that puts melamine into milk, so it can help conceal its fraudulent dilution with water (China)?
I was referring to “reconditioned” not “reprocessed” there is a difference. The FDA loves to use cryptic terminology to protect the food industry.
You have to keep your eyes on the food industry, many will cut corners to make a buck, but you can’t paint the entire industry with one brush. The majority produce good products. Unfortunately they get lumped together with the bad by bigoted food Nazis like yourself, little man…
If they find a way of deep-frying the can’s contents, then I think it would be safe to eat.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
We need stronger citizens.
This stuoid republicans and their corrupt FDA. Oh, wait!
I have a good friend who works for the FDA. Trust me – they ain’t Republicans what am running that organization!
I have another friend who is an epidemiologist and travels the country lecturing local food inspectors about what is and what is not safe to eat.
The key words are “safe to eat.” Not necessarily appetizing, or wholesome or pleasant. A few years ago when he started doing his research, his diet took a big hit. Wouldn’t hardly eat anything unless his kosher mother cooked it. (I’m not even Jewish but her cooking could have converted me!) Now, after years of this stuff he’s a little more lax. The last time we met was in Hawaii and we ate Spam!
Is it true that Spam is Soylent Pink?
Its Soylent Green with red dye #2 added.
Just grab a spoon and pray the end comes quickly and not too painfully.
The plan is to reduce the population down to 500,000 from the current 7,000,000,000.
That’s a lot of miserable people to kill…
I’ve never been able to stomach that thing.
My only close encounter with the food processing industry was for my highschool final paper which was “How hot dogs are made”. We were treated with an Oscar Mayer’s tour
Regardless of the experience, I still ate them afterwards.
Underwood’s deviled ham spread on the other hand, was forsaken for life. Another form of soylent pink.
The FDA is only as strong as its funding, and the GOP is in power and wants to eliminate it entirely.
In the meantime though, they work to kick out any “liberal” in the FDA that demands food and drug safety.
It doesn’t matter the schools can fall back to serving catsup seeing we all know it is a vegetable thanks to the Reagan administration.
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Yes. So right. Any idiot knows catsup is a fruit!
“Ketchup” is a condiment, a tomato is a fruit. Idiot!
All in your perceptions, Grasshopper. My son thinks catsup is a main course.
Why do Republicans hate America and harm innocent white children by wanting to kill government regulation?
I have to agree with you here. Repubs are as stupids as you’re an idiot
Glad to see you are still around. You, Bobbo and Teabagger Dude are the tent poles of this loony blog
Thanks for the false flattery. Undeserved, but thanks anyway.
I was just sidestepped a little by the great firewall of ‘em Chiners, which was made tighter some weeks ago. Although not sure why, I have a very sound theory why.
Moldy fruit is good for you! Deregulationists say so!
Ask any, any of the politicians if they send their kids to public school?
The sneer on their lips should give you the answer.
One must keep in mind that self-interest is the driving force behind capitalism. Here is an excellent example of a food processor that derives a demonstrable competitive advantage over its more ethical, law-abiding peers by minimizing input costs. Without government interference, ethical competitors would eventually be driven out of business by producers more willing to risk the health of consumers.
That’s why capitalism must always be balanced with government regulation. Without regulations that deter unethical cost-cutting measures and other bad practices, most ethical businesses wouldn’t stand a chance to survive in the marketplace. The “honor system” doesn’t work in capitalism.
Like the non-capitalistic Chinese regulations? I’ve heard they are honor driven.
Go back to your OWS tent and wait for someone to rape you.
Pedro–you are really coming out of your shell. So you think regulation of capitalism is a bad thing huh?
You equate capitalism to having no regulations and any country with regulations, regardless of the 436 other variables, is a stand in for the evils of having regulations?
I’ve never seen a donkey gallop so fast.
Excellent post Gary, but sadly, its only corn cobs before the ignorant.
I see the lack of post numbering is bringing your brain to the size of a peanut.
Exactly where did I say that I’m against regulations?
You might have confused me with some kind of idiot that thinks capitalism & regulations are exclusive.
I suppose then that capitalism has only been 20 years in use in the US.
What I’m really against is to idiotic illogical arguments like the one from your defendant. Yours is worse by association.
I see your sarcasm and raise you truth.
Your a dodo if you think for one millisecond capitalism has a conscience.