Got sick from your food? It's your fault!

Today's New York Times has an article about how large food companies are skimping on the safety and claiming the consumers have the ultimate responsibility for making sure their food is safe. Excerpts:

"Increasingly, the corporations that supply Americans with processed foods are unable to guarantee the safety of their ingredients. In this case, ConAgra could not pinpoint which of the more than 25 ingredients in its pies was carrying salmonella. Other companies do not even know who is supplying their ingredients, let alone if those suppliers are screening the items for microbes and other potential dangers, interviews and documents show.
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In addition to ConAgra, other food giants like Nestlé and the Blackstone Group, a New York firm that acquired the Swanson and Hungry-Man brands two years ago, concede that they cannot ensure the safety of items — from frozen vegetables to pizzas — and that they are shifting the burden to the consumer. General Mills, which recalled about five million frozen pizzas in 2007 after an E. coli outbreak, now advises consumers to avoid microwaves and cook only with conventional ovens. ConAgra has also added food safety instructions to its other frozen meals, including the Healthy Choice brand.
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Pressed to say whether the meals are safe to eat if consumers disregard the instructions or make an error, Stephanie Childs, a company spokeswoman, said, “Our goal is to provide the consumer with as safe a product as possible, and we are doing everything within our ability to provide a safe product to them.”"

In other words: Hey, we can't be bothered to make sure all our suppliers are following standard safe food processes - we're too busy counting our profits and bribing, er, lobbying congress to ease those onerous regulations. You buy our food and get seriously ill it's your fault for not following the instructions. What do you mean you don't know your microwave's wattage? Not our problem. Here, buy some more frozen stuff - it's convenient.

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where the victim never gets more than "economic damage". Most any product you buy has "see ----- website" somewhere on it. At the website somewhere there is a statement that says that by using the product you agree to arbitration. When you open the can/package the amount they could possibly pay, regardless of how careless they were in making the product, is pretty much set.

ARbitration is like disability. Your potential earnings to age 65 X the % your were harmed = their payment to you. No punitive (that is where they get hurt) and no mental anguish or anything else.

hey..it costs money to make YOU safe..and YOU do not deserve the cash outlay...only CEO's and other privileged persons deserve such safety...get over it..you dupes!

Today, there are only two worlds: the world of the corporate elite, and the world of the serfs.

from scratch. If you bake your own pie, you get to determine how fresh the ingredients are, and how they're treated from raw to the final serving plate.

Seriosuly, I looked around and everyone else had processed food stuffs.

want to buy your ingredients from China? fine. as long as we do not have to eat it!

If we don't have oversight on industries like food and beverage, the companies will do whatever they want. Remember that before health laws were in effect, anything could go in your food, and you would not know about it. People get sick because of toxic and unhealthy ingredients in their food. Food manufacturers in China got caught putting sawdust in their food. Companies only care about making maximum profit while spending minimal amounts of money. Food companies must be overseen, and should always have to follow strict health codes, otherwise they should be shut down. When a person's health is at risk, should there be second chances?

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the thinking for where we are now was "the market will take care of it" because it is bad business to make a bad product....unless you can limit liability but changing the order of the instructions and making the consumer agree to arbitration where the victim never gets more than "economic damage". Most any product you buy has "see ----- website" somewhere on it. At the website somewhere there is a statement that says that by using the product you agree to arbitration. When you open the can/package the amount they could possibly pay, regardless of how careless they were in making the product, is pretty much set.