> Regulatory capture at work.

Regulatory capture here on HN is turning into a meaningless phrase. Whenever a business does something wrong, rather than actually say what's wrong someone just claims it's regulatory capture. It's turned into it's own thought terminating cliche.

Say what the issue is, don't just blame an assumed regulatory capture. In this case state that it's insufficient regulation of the meat processing industry, infrequent inspections of processing plants, or understaffed agencies.

Say what the issues were, not a nebulous "regulatory capture" claim.

Businesses lobby to get FDA regulations weakened - state that's the problem, not a vague "regulatory capture" phase.