How exactly does this story support the conclusion we are becoming corrupt?
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The topic of discussion is how a meat plant was allowed to operate despite egregiously failing not just safety rules and procedures but just plain common sense.
You consider that working?
If your definition of “first world country” is no company ever cuts corners, well, name one. It’s probably just Singapore.
I would remind you that these "failures" were not some black swan level of event that we can't foresee, it was plain and direct negligence.
The rotten mean was literally, and I mean quite literally, piling up.
You are being EXTREMELY outright dishonest in your perspectives here. I don't say this lightly, there is no possibility of reconciling your statements and the facts of the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America
The UK had mad cow disease, Italy continues to deal with diluted and falsified olive oil, the EU has had repeated horse meat scandals. Most recently Japan had a health food supplement scandal in which many people died.
I don't consider letting rotten meat pileup an example of a working inspection process, which is what I specifically responded to, first world or not.
Our food safety systems work and can be trusted and when a failure happens we talk about it, it makes the news, and changes happen. I really believe that.
Huh. That's an abject lie. If there were a working inspection program, this would never have happened. It wouldn't even have come close.
Etcetera etcetera. Throw in another dimension of punishment besides just stopping operations and it gets more complex. With a little imagination, the worst cases are much worse than any of the above. We can be dissatisfied with the actual circumstances but still recognize the nuanced factors which might make up a “working” system.
I am struggling to comprehend what these much worse scenarios are, beyond "we just say fuck it and let them continue to sell the stuff"?
This is a single plant among hundreds in the US.
If I go to a doctors office that doesn’t follow sterile procedures, would you call it a 3rd world country? Even knowing there are thousands that do follow regulations?
That would be a silly conclusion.
Basically, it has been left up to the goodness of the plants to operate themselves how they like. That's how it is expected in the third world.
No, in the third world, inspections aren't even done. Laws are created that aren't enforced, inspection teams aren't funded, and inspectors are bribed.
None of that is happening in the US.
And no, constant inspections is not how it's done. Even in Europe, it's random inspections and mostly self-regulation.