Catastrophic.
  • P_P@lemm.eeEnglish
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    16 days ago

    State agencies will still be in place, will they not? I wouldn’t eat the food or drink the water were I in a red state…

    • CPMSP@midwest.social
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      16 days ago

      Aww come on, maybe your kid will have super powers then, like an extra arm or glowing in the dark. Where’s your sense of adventure?

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 days ago

      Most, if not all in some cases, funding for state-level regulatory agencies comes directly from their federal counterparts. This will essentially kill state agencies as well.

      Or at the very least, they will be severely reduced in terms of staff and purview.

      And that’s just the states that don’t decide to follow the administration’s lead and do the same thing to their state level agencies.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      While RFK Jr is the same worm man, let’s please remember all the cries about drugs being expensive and regulators stifling competition there, and that (from what I’ve read, I’ve never been to US) what can be put into food is already not very well regulated in your country.

      Those agencies are problematic. Just like actions aimed at something good may have negative side effects, often outweighing the effect in the intended direction, similarly it is here.

      And after typing the previous I’ve read the article and that’s what he’s saying, mentioning Canada as the good example. Unfortunately by analogy this would mean that for drug regulation he’d go the same way, only with his antivaxxer views. Also talking about kids being healthier is cringe.

      • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        16 days ago

        The agencies are problematic because they generally aren’t allowed or don’t have the budget to properly regulate things. Eliminating departments isn’t going to help anything, and I really don’t think the guy that picks up roadkill for a snack will improve the overall quality of food in the country.

        • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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          15 days ago

          Not sure this is the case with FDA.

          We’ll see. Roadkill for snack is fine when meat’s cooked correctly, unless it’s a roadkill near Chernobyl.

          But it’s understandable not to trust the guy who had part of his brain eaten by a parasite to cook meat correctly.

          • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            15 days ago

            It’s important to know that both the FDA and the USDA are in charge of inspecting food, and which food is covered by which agency can be complicated.

            FSIS [under the USDA] conducts continuous daily inspections of foods in its domain, whereas FDA inspections have no regular schedule. The FDA is more likely to inspect only after a tip about a possible food safety violation, so random inspections can occur up to 10 years apart or, in rare cases, not at all.

            “It’s not that they don’t want to inspect more, they just don’t have the funding,” Raymond says.

            This inspection imbalance means that pepperoni pizza, because it contains meat, has ingredients that will be inspected three times before the product hits the grocery store freezer: at the slaughterhouse, the packing plant and the pizza factory. A vegetarian pizza produced at the same facility, however, will probably not undergo any inspection.

            And in regard to the FDA being not allowed to regulate:

            [The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994] placed the burden of proof concerning dietary supplement safety on FDA, requiring the agency to show that a dietary supplement ingredient is adulterated rather than requiring the manufacturer to prove a supplement is safe prior to marketing. This is in contrast to new food additives, which require submission of safety information in a food additive petition prior to marketing, or drugs, which generally require submission of safety data as part of a new drug application prior to marketing.

            At least with dietary supplements, they can’t make a new product guarantee it’s safe, the FDA needs to already know something is dangerous before it can force a recall.

            If you’d prefer to learn more through a comedian, John Oliver covered this topic a while back https://youtu.be/Za45bT41sXg

  • RalphFurley@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I always imagined him as the guy at the end of Road House where Patrick Swayze ripped his throat out and round-housed him into the pond. But he survived, left the redneckville and turns out half of his vocal cords was left intact.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Why is anyone surprised. They said what they were gonna do. They’re now making concrete plans to do the things they said they were gonna do.

    I’m gonna fuckin leave.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Headline from the future:

    “Displacing heart disease, the primary cause of death in the USA is now ‘easily preventable disease’”

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I mean nothing new, Mr. Brainworm has been ranting about this for a while now and Trump has specified that gutting agencies was always his project 2025 plan so why would anyone be surprised here?

    Good luck everyone and enjoy 2025!

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I hope at least they sack the ones who were approving drugs they knew didn’t work because of big pharma pressure. Would be a silver lining.