Thai fire crackers
November 11th, 2008 by Carly M. Alaimo in Food & Life, NewsIn a dramatic declaration of finality and reassurance, the Thailand Federal Drug Administration set fire to over 33,000 melamine tainted products including condensed milk and snack crackers.
The blaze was intended to comfort the people of Thailand; a proclamation that the days of toxic cheese crackers have ceased and deadly dairy is no more.
I hope the U.S. is taking notes, I mean, incineration is a pretty effective termination tactic. Burning massive heaps of poisonous food items really communicates “Good riddance scary chemicals and diseases!” in a way that irradiation and ambiguous messages from the FDA simply do not.
The next time there’s E. Coli in our spinach, I expect fireworks in the fields. Salmonella in our peanut butter? Toast those nuts.
Burn baby, burn.
November 11th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
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