Comment by throwway120385
2 years ago
We shouldn't necessarily focus on the norm but rather on what we would like to see in these facilities to ensure the safety of the people consuming these products. One of the stories my wife's OB told her about consuming uncooked lunch meat was about a case where a pregnant woman ate some lunch meat that was contaminated with listeria, and the resulting infection was so severe that some of her limbs had to be amputated. So we probably shouldn't tolerate this norm.
Pregnant women are immune compromised and should be avoiding lunch meat
Can always cook it. Listeria is very sensitive to heat (and doesn’t produce toxins that cooking doesn’t protect you from).
So that might be true --- is almost certainly true --- but that's an argument you'd ideally be making from the full set of facts (or independent of the facts, as an ideal). It's not an evaluation of the journalism or analysis itself, which deserves, for its own reasons, to be taken seriously.