thebiscuiteternal:

jasper-dixon:

Headlines across eight years. Who you vote for really does matter. None of these headlines delve into the Boar’s Head listeria outbreak because I can only post ten photos in one post. But the slaughter house self regulate headline? Yup, that’s why.

#i dont understand the purpose of trump eliminating food saftey#like. what was the point of that? why did he or anyone in his group think that was a good thing?#i dont get it

They don’t care about anything other than squeezing out one more dollar for themselves. Money they don’t have to spend keeping things up to code and/or paying their workers to keep things up to code is money they can stuff in their pockets.

In fact, there have been multiple cases of companies deciding it’s cheaper (read: more front-end short term profit for them) to pay single person or even class-action lawsuits after their corner-cutting hurts people than to just not put out a shitty product to begin with. Until the lawsuits and federal fines become so punitive that they can’t just write it off as cost of operation, that won’t change. And Trump made it all the easier for them.