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Trump floats rolling back food safety regulations

Tanngrisnir said:
LOL! If you knew that's the point I was addressing, why then would you demand proof for something that I wasn't addressing?

Whatever, man.
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I know there was no agency and there is no data(that I know of).
It doesn't matter.

The claims made are not supportable.
If all you wanted to do is pop in and point out a logical fallacy.
Hazaa, you've done it!
 
HenryChinaski said:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/american-labor-in-the-20th-century.pdf Some information. Conditions slowly improved during the 20's and 30's. Less so in the meat packing industry however.
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I don't think you're understanding my argument.
Relatively speaking (meaning in contrast to now), all of those places would seem atrocious.
For their time though, I do not think that all operated in the same fashion, under the same most deplorable conditions.

As an example, Ford was probably the gold standard of a good work place.
Would we describe all factories as similar to Ford, merely because we had that information?
No.

Things exist on a spectrum of Good (Ford) to Bad (The Jungle).

I'm not saying that what your grandfather saw was untrue.
 
HenryChinaski said:
The conditions for manufacturing/ factory workers in 1900 America were ugly from their perspective. Conditions were deplorable. Assembly line workers were locked in, were not permitted to use the restroom, so they'd soil themselves. Things that don't fly here today. Look up the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and tell me if that's ugly from just a modern historical perspective.
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as a nine year old kid in 1961, i recall visiting my Grandmother's older friend, Goldie Millwood, at her tiny mill house
no surprise, i was complaining about something, probably school work
Goldie, who was barely over four feet tall, with a dip of snuff in her mouth, explained to me why my complaint was really a minor one
she told me stories about her childhood; about being a girl of six, who had to carry a box around all day, while fixing the threads on looms in the textile mill outside her door. only worked six days a week. and gave her weekly salary to her parents

yea, things were bad for workers back then. i would be surprised to learn that the slaughterhouse industry was any more enlightened than the textile industry

and we do not need tRump returning us to those days
 
apdst said:
Dogs have been around for a long time. There is no need to spend billions on regulating dog food. That's stupid.

There's no need for the FDA to regulate dirt, either. Another waste of money.
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Love to see a legit source that shows that gov is spend billions on regulation dog food.

Safe "Dirt" (or if you prefer, dirt regulations) are essential in keeping conglomerate food growers from poisoning the entire nation. They'll do in their grandmas for a dollar.
 
apdst said:
Dogs have been around for a long time. There is no need to spend billions on regulating dog food. That's stupid.

There's no need for the FDA to regulate dirt, either. Another waste of money.
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Yeah because you have a right to feed your kids food grown in the soil at the Hanford waste site with new radioactive soil, YUM! You have no right to know about it, but the farmer has the right. He also should have the right to fertilize with his family's feces. That'd be awesome huh? /sarcasm
 
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