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Originally Posted by pan6467
...and ship our food requirements to nations that have no safety netting on the foods they make....
How easy would it be for terrorists to start poisoning our food supply, especially since the FDA has been so weakened it has no power to do anything?
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I've worked in quality control in the past where I had to eat raw produce (taste testing every 15 minutes) from our country and other countries. I used to get sick every now and then, especially when we were testing produce from other countries. The plant had a mirco lab where they tested the produce for various things before it was shipped to stores. Sometimes we dumped out entire pallets or totes of product that tested poorly in the lab. When we were backlogged, the results might not come back from the lab for a day or two... after I'd eaten it and after I'd gotten sick if I was going to get sick.
Since I left that field, I rarely get sick.
I love the Tuesday and Saturday markets, and local produce stands when I can get there. We grow some of our own, but not enough. I buy the rest at a grocery store. I also prefer USA grown if I can get it, specifically local.