• RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Unironically, in real, physical, material life - someone should be killed. Like shot on the streets while they’re walking out their car.

    • WayeeCool [comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      This is the US, a backwards uncivilized nation, so I suspect upper management will walk away from this mostly unscathed and even see bonuses for their profit maximizing actions. They can't blame their suppliers because they are supposed to be QA testing all of their inputs and their final product, it shouldn't require the FDA to raid the plant and do on-site testing for something like this to be discovered. In a civilized nation there would be arrests of company executives resulting in life sentences or capital punishment.

      Remember how the FDA recently didn't find out about tainted baby formula until the CDC traced a string of infant deaths to an Abbot plant? How the executive branch had given Abbot a waiver that allowed them to self certify and even after multiple QA managers at the plant had filed whistle blower complaints nothing had been done. How the executives and board of Abbort didn't face criminal charges but got 20 million dollars in bonuses and the industry celebrated because that year they saw record profits due to the supply shortages it created enabling them to further price gouge the US public.

      How when a similar tainted baby formula incident happened in China, the executives received life in prison and capital punishment.

    • POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      No, just have to sit around in a cell for the rest of their life wondering if a few fraction of pennies per baggie was worth this hell of an existence.

  • Weedian [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Didn’t the PRC sentence a few people to death over doing this same type of thing with baby formula?

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    grillman: "Actually, corporations aren't evil and want you to die, they just don't care if you live OR die! Muh freedumz!"

    porky-happy: "We are intentionally trying to kill you. Why? Because we fucking can, that's why. If you won't let me, that's big gubmint 1984!"

  • CoolYori [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    I love how they have a round about way of saying they used lead instead of sugar because it was cheaper.

    • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      I can't believe that's actually true, though. I can get 4lbs of sugar at the store for $3.50. Do they expect people to believe that industrial size 25-50lb bags of sugar are more expensive than lead? And this is supposed to help their case in some way?

      • D61 [any]
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        11 months ago

        The expense isn't the point, increasing profits is.

        • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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          11 months ago

          I don’t understand how that increases profit though. Sorry if I sound dumb, but isn’t the sugar cheaper than the lead?

          Omfg it’s not even about the taste it’s about the color of the fucking applesauce. What kind of fucking hell world is this? Just let it be whatever color apples and cinnamon looks like kids don’t give a shit as long as it tastes good.

            • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              It's an opaque pouch that you stick directly into your mouth. You have to go out of your way to inspect the color. That's what's so bananas about this WanaBana scandal.

          • Sinonatrix [comrade/them]
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            11 months ago

            It's because it's fake ass cinnamon in the first place. It's a common enough fraud that the manufacturer should've been super skeptical, especially for a manufacturer of baby food - probably just thought if they didn't test that they'd be able to wash their hands of whatever was in it.

            Probably right too...

    • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      More like, the cinnamon supplier cut their cinnamon with lead to increase the weight and everyone involved is too negligent to screen their products.