Now is a very good time to be a vegetarian. I can only imagine how much worse meat is going to get with the gutting of federal regulations.

Before I stopped eating meat, I would be poisoned every other month by some restaurant or another. I know that I can get poisoned by non-meat products, but they seem to be the most common culprit. Since I stopped eating meat I haven't had nearly as many problems.

Related news:

USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees -- https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

"The USDA eliminated the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods and the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection, a spokesperson said."

EDIT: It's so hard to keep track up with the seesaw decision making in DC. Here's some positive news re: food safety that just came out this afternoon:

• F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs -- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/health/fda-food-safety-tr...

-- This is another case of "inadvertent firing" like several others the federal workforce has been subjected to earlier. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43097709

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