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Oh my.
I'm confused as to the point of the Taverner primitive's post, but whatever.
I do not know who this Taverner is but can understand where they are coming from. Frustration,
This week it is dangerous to eat peanut butter because of Bactria, last week it was bagged salads and the week before the death toll rises on people that ate cantolope.
I unfortunately watched a quickie on the news, a video of the police in Texas stopping the refrigerated trucks to check their inside temperatures. :Arch: :Arch:
Some of these trucks had broken refrigeration devises and some thing was leaking out the back and it was not water. Some trucks had temperatures as high as 50 degrees with a load of frozen food. Videos showed melting meat packed above the fruits and vegetables all this dropping down on the produce.
It was the video's that got to me, and working years with truckers that would off load fresh vegetables not accepted by a buyer to make room for our product. The off loaded was placed on pallets and the workers invited to take home what ever the item was.
These trucks were not cleaned between shipments, one day they would haul fish, next day pork and beef, next our produce with no cleaning but perhaps the floor swept. When the refrigeration on a truck went down and the meat began to rot and had to be disposed of, the truck next day would head out with a load of fruits and vegetables. No time to sanitise the entire inside of the big trailer, makes me wonder how often the big milk tankers are cleaned out.
I do so understand that we are dependent on our food being trucked in and how a union shut down would be a distaster for us.
If all States followed Texas in stopping and checking our refrigerated units, I would guess the Unions would go NUTS.
When food processing plants place well inspected product aboard a truck and find that when it reached a destination in a manor to cause illness to the buyers of that product due to a non English speaking driver that forgets to turn on refrigeration to the product, it is disaster for the producer. RECALL under their name, not the name of the company that transported the item.
Yes I believe I can understand a bit of what Taverner is mumbling about. Easy to spot, a problem, truck of frozen veggies and meats pull up to a grocery store and off load the cargo to the loading docks and the workers have just gone for a one hour lunch ----These pallots stays in the sun at 90 degrees for over an hour before brought inside. The foods on the outside of the pallot will begin to melt , only will the very most containers deep inside the pallet stay frozen.
Big problem with food today, as long as we have Unions that fight against inspections of the trucks that drive our food to market 1500+ miles away, yes we will get sick and die from miss handling of the product.
Eat dirt, well I have heard of Pica and mud pies. Some times it takes the last person one would think of to call attention to the Empire's no clothing.
