2013-02-23, 03:59 AM
Kabanaw Wrote:Not to say that there's no problems within food production, I can't say if there is because I don't know enough about it, but I do know that this is probably more like finding the green potato chip than it is finding a needle in your burger.
BUT AGAIN:
案山子 Wrote:It's a big deal because it shows how unchecked a lot of our food is and just about anything can slip into that cheeseburger you're chowing down on. Replace the organ with drugs; a dead rodent; a finger. It's the problem of ''sometimes random pomegranate is put into that Happy Meal you just got, kid''. True, it turned out to be a part of a chicken, but if it wasn't? Again, how could you have known immediately what this organ is or where it came from?
THIS is the point we're trying to make. The crux of this issue is not the literal specifics of the surprise inside the chicken, but the fact there was something that wasn't supposed to be there to begin with. The whole issue here is compounded by the fact that many of you have no problem with it - and it's your complacency and indifference to these kinds of mistakes that allow them to continue, at times being actually serious, like finding enterohemorrhagic E. coli in your hamburger. When something is wrong, you need to say something about it, not be paid off with vouchers so the company can continue whatever disastrously unhealthy production practices it follows.
It's just like calling out people for being racist if they're blatantly offensive and/or using derogatory slurs, right before turning around and telling a "really funny joke" about feeling uneasy seeing a veterinary clinic next to a Chinese restaurant. Though you may have stopped a clear example of racism, in the seemingly "harmless" joke you upheld a racial stereotype, further perpetuating a social culture of symbolic racism that, to some, subconsciously validates their bigoted beliefs, enabling them to act out their racial phobias by being blatantly offensive and/or using derogatory slurs. Or worse.
Point is, you're keeping the cycle alive by not taking offense to and speaking out against the principle of the issue here.