This whole egg recall thing is just confirmation that the free market paradise upon us...

[MrScorpio]

If expect the government to ensure food safety and keep you from getting sick from salmonella...


Then obviously, you're living in some socialist fantasyland.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Because gross incompetency and failure of regulation doesn't happen in the absence of capitalism

[MrScorpio]

2. Capitalism won the Cold War, remember?

Because of that, it should get carte blanche, no matter what.

The Soviets are on the scrapheap precisely they didn't allow the free market to hold sway.


All Praise To The Free Market.

[RandomThoughts]

4. If the nuclear regulatory rules were not made in the 70s

What would are reactors look like?

I do agree that lack of democracy, removes social concern from leaders also, so totalitarianism central planning can be similar to oligarchy central planning.

[applegrove]

3. Exactly. And the capitalists will say the market always works perfectly. I people not eating

eggs because they don't want to die is a perfect market correction....***holes!

[Strelnikov_]

5. Atlas shrugged n/t

[JVS]

6. If you think this is bad, keep an eye on the seafood market.

[DBoon]

7. Glen Beck wants to take us back to before the Progressives regulated everything

to before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

When food processing was as described by Upton Sinclair in "The Jungle"

[madrchsod]

8. scale of production and cost

i buy my eggs from a commercial farm that does`t cage their chickens. the eggs sell for 1-1.50 dollars more than the factory farm eggs in the store.

one has to throughly cook or boil eggs.

[Hekate]

9. 5th Rec, Mr Scorpio. Since mid-Bush Admin I've been saying we've returned to Upton Sinclair' time...

... over a century ago, when he wrote The Jungle.

As someone commented here last night: We should tell the Republicans to go suck eggs.

Hekate

[mike r]

10. Pre-recall survey: Only half of FDA scientists had confidence in egg safety

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-egg-recall-20100824,0,5572926.story

Only half of the scientists surveyed at the federal agency responsible for monitoring the safety of the nation's egg supply have full confidence that their organization adequately protects consumers from food-borne illness in eggs — and that was before the recent salmonella outbreak.

The survey of Food and Drug Administration scientists by the Union of Concerned Scientists has set off alarm bells within the nonpartisan watchdog organization....

[Kablooie]

11. The salmonella epidemic is just capitalism working the way it's supposed to.

You see if a company becomes slack in their procedures and they create products that kill people, they will lose sales.
Once they lose sales, they must correct the problem so the sales go back up.
It's just capitalism going it's merry way.

The fact that people have to die for capitalism to work is irrelevant, I guess.

[glitch]

15. "The fact that people have to die for capitalism to work"

Well said.

[Recursion]

12. Err.. You mean the recall coordinated by the FDA?

You know, the recall because of the outbreak that's being investigated by the appropriate regulatory body?

How is this some sort of sign of free-market victory, if the recall got sent out and the matter is being investigated by the government?

[MrScorpio]

14. Check this out, my friend

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/38824259#38824259

[glitch]

16. AFTER the outbreak. A functioning regulatory system would have prevented an outbreak.

The 'free-market victory' was sardonic.

[Norrin Radd]

13. kr

[rucky]

17. I imagine a day where we can get salmonella tainted eggs without government intervention.

[bvar22]

18. The entire Factory Food Production & Delivery System is contaminated.

My wife and I feel so strongly about this that we moved to The Woods and started producing as much of our own food as possible.


Health concerns aside, we would do this if only for the taste.
Factory produced Pre-Packaged Food-like Substances taste like cardboard.