Guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration provide an interim reference level (IRL) for lead of 2.2 micrograms. The amount of lead found in these nuggets could be as much as five times higher than this IRL for children.
A recall was not requested because the products are no longer available for purchase. However, FSIS is concerned that some product may still be in consumers’ freezers.
You ate them already. Sorry.
—Walmart
We need to stop normalizing industrial food production and instead grow our own food.
Industrial food production allows roughly 1-2% of workers to grow food for the other 98%. It is basically the foundation of modern civilization. It allows almost all persons, the majority of regions, even nations to be net importers of food either temporarily due to mischance or permanently due to specialization.
Taking this away would collapse modern civilization as effectively as if you literally nuked everyone with the death toll being similar. Worse people don’t react well to starving to death so the rest would probably mostly kill each other other ways.
The medieval society that emerged would produce little art or science but lots of potatoes and grains to support the much smaller total population.
We’re not talking about “return to monke” type bullshit here. There are other ways.
From Permaculture Food Forests to aquaponic warehouse farms, we can do better than… Whatever this lead-riddled hell is.
We can do industrial food production without lead as well
Can we? Sure. Under Capitalism? Nope, not happening.
We absolutely can most people do… Also under capitalism!