Comments on: Even Your Cereal Isn’t Safe

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:51:57 +0000

This problem went on for over a month before it was caught because there is no inspection system in place and no inspectors. Beginning with Reagan, the GOP has systematically destroyed the health and safety systems put in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening. These systems were put in place because of abuses, and man has not appreciably evolved in the last century to the point that we can expect that the greed that led to the problems has, in any way, abated. Truth be told, corporations have found news ways of increasing the problems through factory farming that did not exist when The Jungle was written.

If the people at the top start going to prison for gross violations, the violations will stop. As long as there are no significant penalties, there is no reason not to do ignore health and safety regulations to make more money until you are caught.

By: Sorghum Crow

Sorghum Crow — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:53:10 +0000

Who would eat salmon cereal, anyway?

I prefer cake for breakfast.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:45:18 +0000

i’ve always maintained, ever since i was a small child, that cereal was eeeeeevillllll.

i’m a big fan of ice cream for breakfast. has anybody recalled any of that yet?

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:37:35 +0000

Details and product codes here. Some prepackaged breakfast cereals are not vegan... not a problem for me, as I'm lacto-ovo-veggie... but I was unable to find specific ingredient lists for the various Malt-O-Meal flavors. But you are most certainly right: even a strict vegan diet will not save one from some kinds of food poisoning. For example, in August of last year, I wrote some doggerel, or rather actually parody, about the salmonella scare in packaged spinach, to be sung to the tune of "Oklahoma!"

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:31:58 +0000

What has to happen for impeachment? If Dick Cheney raped a child on live television, with George Bush standing there saying, “I approved this message?”

Isn’t this basically what they did, only without the live television?