No contaminated tomatoes have been found, says FDA’s ‘food safety chief’
if the mass of goonited states poltroons can’t stomach hanging these FDA rats — who, among the least of their crimes, fucked up my and many others’ dining for weeks over this tomato bullshit — what about some ol’ fashioned tar and feathering, then running out on a rail? who’s with me?
or how about some of you restaurant and grocery store owners get a testicle transplant and next time tell the FDA to fuck itself? ooooh, FDA and CDC! oooooh! goddamned servile turds appeared to get off hanging those signs. the usual emergency psychosis. batten down the hatches, boys; alphabet soup headed our way. one asshole at a local restaurant put on his worry face when trying to justify why, long after everyone else was again serving tomatoes, his restaurant was still doing the boogah boogah FDA invocation dance o’ tumult. i’ll never walk in that joint again, and i was happy to not be the only customer pissed off at his quivering “status is orange, people; the status is orange” style schtick, only one step removed from “could tell ya; have to kill ya” guy.
of course, the funniest part about all this is the FDA hacks doing their “oh, it’s okay now” assurance, when that was the same position they had at the start of the outbreak. in other words, what the hell do you need these dipshits for? they say it’s okay at the beginning of the outbreak, they say it’s not safe to eat tomatoes when it is, and then you’re supposed to care what they say after that.
as the color bozos at the department of fatherland security found, it’s easy to create a panic. you don’t even need a doctoral degree in panic creation. i could do it tomorrow if through the regular application of threatened force i’d trained the idjit public to consider that my opinion on something was worth noting — to the tune of $100M+ destruction. i could write that “warning” too. i’ll even assume a sour puss and get in front of a bank of microphones and “answer” questions on it (“uh, at this time we’re currently not, at this point, currently able to pin down with the requisite accuracy, at this time, what is currently, uh…”).
from the start the signs on restaurant doors should’ve read, “we are disregarding what we believe is overblown, misguided interference by the FDA. eat here only if you approve of this action… or simply love tomatoes as much as we do.”
need proof that socialism begets socialism? here ya go:
The federal government owes disaster relief payments to the nation’s tomato growers and packers for the losses incurred because federal regulators wrongly linked their produce to salmonella poisonings nationwide, industry and state officials told a congressional committee Thursday.“Congress should provide relief to growers and packers in Florida and throughout the U.S. for real losses suffered to date and those they continue to suffer through no fault of their own,” testified Reggie Brown, executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange.
As a sixth-generation farmer and rancher, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson said that he knows Florida growers expect to face risks from hurricanes, droughts, fires and other natural events.
“But I can tell you we never anticipate that our business will be destroyed by an action of the federal government,” Bronson told the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. “Millions of dollars lost and yet there is still not a shred of evidence suggesting that Florida-grown tomatoes were the source of this outbreak.”
yeah, if anybody gets to destroy florida business, it should be our crime gang!
After the CDC initially showed a statistical likelihood that tomatoes were the culprit, FDA investigators seemed to don blinders, said Thomas Stenzel, president and chief executive officer of the United Fresh Produce Association.He said the FDA showed a “bias that ‘We must prove it’s tomatoes because that’s what the CDC said.””
shocker. here’s the money paragraph:
No contaminated tomatoes have been found since the first cases of salmonella Saintpaul were reported in New Mexico and Texas in April, conceded David Acheson, the FDA’s food safety chief.
read the rest (same link as above); it’s a grabber.