2010.10.16 - Jesse Kelly - Food Safety Regulation

[frepi]

I hope the water in the bottle he is drinking contains unregulated water...And the bottle's plastic seeps out toxic chemicals. That his shirt is infested with bedbugs that survived washing because the bleach he used was in fact tap water.

[Ecwfan]

Why would anyone cheer this ? Really he's basically saying if ya get sick its on you since he can't be bothered to give a shit to pass laws to protect you. Because its your responsibility to hope and pray ya don't get sick.

[MiHiVidz]

I hope that any cook that makes a meal for this asshole deliberately wipes their hands into their asscrack as they prepare his food.

Let's see if this inhuman jackoff is as able to test his own food as he wants to force everyone else to do.

[mrjonnewman]

What an ignorant fucktard!

[clintatl]

What a complete dumbass.

[frepi]

It is infuriating to see stupidity win an argument

[MiHiVidz]

@frepi And frightening to see so many drooling idiots clapping in applause. Talk about a suicide cult! And what's even more frightening is that this suicide cult wants to get YOU killed as well.

[MiHiVidz]

And just HOW IN THE HELL is the average person supposed to test each and every morsel for e coli and other toxins??

This guy is not just an asshole. He's an asshole who wants to see millions of people dead!

[flynn2008]

@MiHiVidz

Grocery stores and food producers don't make good business by getting people sick.

Regulations have no special powers to make food any safer. Government can't test every food item out there either.

Reputable brand and food producers don't finance their factory to poison people. If they do, they go out of business.

- you as a customers hold the power to shop the things you think is safe.

[MultiLhc]

That's crazy. No one should buy food that they "think" is safe to eat; they should be sure of it. Kelly seems to suggest--as do you--that businesses should operate under no regulations at all. I can't believe people have to take the time to explain how silly that is.

I have a question for Kelly. How on earth is he able to tie his shoes in the morning? I suspect the answer is velcro.

[flynn2008]

@MultiLhc

But businesses are always regulated by the market. Market is YOU.

There are going to unethical and dangerous case in any industry. Each of us have the ability to minimize risk every single minutes in our lives. Anyone can cross the street in 3 o'clock in the morning to be safe. Why take the risk?

[Slybac]

"you as a customers hold the power to shop the things you think is safe."

Absolutely. After we or one of our family members gets violently ill and/or dies because of foodborne illness. Then we can shop somewhere else. And if we try to sue? Well thats just too bad, because good little Republicans like Jesse Kelly have made it so that the civil tort system has become increasingly stacked against anyone who can't afford a small army of lawyers on permanent retainer. Justice is for Commies.

[MiHiVidz]

@flynn2008 And tell me, oh wise one. Is there such a thing as a "home salmonella detection kit"?

You know, other than heaving your guts out all over the floor and being rushed to the emergency room?

Companies would kill you if they think they can get away with it. Hell, look at what they are doing to the people even WITH regulations around.

[LouieArrighi]

@flynn2008 and how are you going to pinpoint how you got sick?

[frepi]

@flynn2008

Before Ralph Nader, there were no mandatory safety standards for cars. Car manufacturers had the same arguments: if we made unsafe cars, people would not buy them. Yet cars were not safe, people bought them anyway and minor car accidents were often lethal. Regulations made sure brake systems were reliable, seat belts were efficient. So today, even with many more cars on the roads, car accident deaths are falling.

[cmfluteguy]

Yes, it is our job.

We elect representatives to make poisoning people illegal, and create safety standards for OUR food.

That is totally lost on republicans. You know, the whole "WE THE PEOPLE" thing.



[Rexcetera]

More proof that rightwingers are brain dead. Or at least, they will be, as will we all, if there are no regulations guarding food safety.