Well, now we know the very definition of “rat bastard.” :mad:
Actually, jarred peanut butter is safe-it’s pre-packaged stuff, like peanut butter crackers that you have to worry about.
Any one got a list of the types of products? (I tried looking, but the lists are so long and specific, and most of them are PDFs) I think peanut butter cups, and some ice cream with peanut butter swirls are affected.
5 dead and over 450 sick. Not a big deal when you consider the size of the population. Profits did very well with lax or no regulation. It is a wash.
Do you like chocolate?
Yes, an ACTUAL FUCKING EVENT where a lack of government regulation and supervision led to a greedy stupid businessman putting out a substandard product. A product that led to sickness and death. An actual fucking event that gives us a tiny bit of insight into what things would look like in the absence of government regulation and supervision.
But then I guess I know squat about Libertarian theory.
I believe a Libertarian would think that’s all fine, since the owner was free to make this choice for himself, and he will have to accept responsibility for the consequences of the choice he made. Likewise, the consumers will just have to accept the responsibility for not checking into the quality of the food they bought, and will have to accept the consequences for this choice.
Likewise, would not a Libertarian say that a free and competitive market allocates resources in the most efficient manner? It’s certainly not efficient to poison your customers. (Unless you’re a greedy, stupid sociopath) Each person has the right to offer goods and services to others on the free market. The only proper role of government in the economic realm is to protect property rights, adjudicate disputes, and provide a legal framework in which voluntary trade is protected.
Protect voluntary trade - no regulating, no supervising, no government interference with trade.
Adjudicate disputes - so the victims can now be compensated for their deaths.
STOP TALKING OUT OF IGNORANCE
If you care to read more current reports, like ones published this week or last, you will find that indeed, some jarred peanut butter has been recalled. Among the types recalled are the ones packaged for dollar stores that are marked on the label for sale for 99 cents. Consumer reports other boutique jarred peanut butter might not be safe. While some types of peanut butter cups that made their way into ice cream and other peanut butter flavored ice cream has been recalled, some peanut butter cups are not only not recalled, but positively not in the affected products.
REESES PEANUTBUTTER CUPS ARE SAFE!
Consumer Reports blog from last week has more links, some to other brands declaring their product’s safety, and others to the FDA website and database of recalled products.
So you’re cool with the rat shit then?
This isn’t 1900. It’s 2009. We should expect better.
Of course, and the solution to inadequate regulation is obviously no regulation at all. Clear as Jif.
I’m not just cool with the rat shit, I’m down with the rodent hairs, and the feathers are the wind beneath my wings.
No, that’s what an anarchocapitalist would say. A libertarian would say that there should be strict regulations against coercive force and deception, which includes representing your products as safe for consumption when in fact they are not.
Sorry. I feel so stupid now.
Perhaps you could ask the Libertarian Party to Change the wording on their webpage:
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They filed for bankruptcy protection.
And as if we didn’t have enough to worry about…now you have to worry about dog treats.
List of recalled products from the FDA.
You got rat shit in my peanut butter!
You got peanut butter on my rat shit!
This is what happens when the FDA is understaffed and leaves the inspection responsibility up to the state – and the state is Texas.
I must protest this uncalled for slight against Texas. Sure, Texas may have more chromosomes per capita than any other state in the union, but such people can live very productive lives wiping tables at Whataburger or even as President.
5 people dead and hundreds sick is a big deal.
aaaaaaannndddd…
WHOOSH!
Oh, come on, how am I supposed to be able to tell when it’s gonzomax?
Er… don’t pretty much all consumer products have a certain amount of cockroach bits and rat droppings in them?
Yeesh, lee, chilll. I was going by what I heard on the news this morning. You don’t have to bite my head off. I heard on the news LAST NIGHT that jars were still safe-and that some ice cream was being recalled-I didn’t say any brand specifically. Jesus.
Or as message board administrators. ::puts two more names on The List*::
*Note: the statement between the :s is a JOKE.
This is the Straight Dope, we aspire to a higher standard than the evening news. As far as I can tell, their goal is to get you to tune in at 11, and our goal is fighting ignorance, and here you were spewing it all over the page. It was not hard for me to find multiple sites (I only linked a couple; I found many others) that debunked your claim that jarred peanut butter was safe. Are you telling me that you don’t have the time to check your facts before you post?
It just gets worse, this story:
Does that sound like an operation that should get within a country mile of certification as producing organic food? And yet:
I’m beginning to think the only solution is to eat nothing except what the local co-op farm produces.