Taylor Fresh Foods, parent company of Taylor Farms, is voluntarily recalling some products that include jalapenos because of worries about a possible salmonella contamination.
It’s almost like while vertical integration can maximize a corporations profits, it means a single problem fucks up the entire nations food supply…
And that we need government regulations to ensure we have options, which also ensure there’s competition between suppliers, resulting fair prices.
If a single corporation supplies the majority of produce, they can charge whatever the fuck they want.n it’s effectively a monopoly because one when supplier goes down, the few others can’t fill the gap.
This a problem that either needs fixed, or will keep having worse and worse consequences.
That’s not vertical integration. Vertical integration is when a single company owns the supply chain end to end, e.g. if Sysco also owned and operated the farms and restaurants. Or Ticketmaster owning the artist/label, ticket platform, and venue. Owning a broad part of one step is horizontal integration (often approaching a market with few or no competitors).
We HAVE regulations, which is why this was caught and a recall issued.
I made a longer comment, but this company is not worse at safety - they are just a very large provider of products that are inherently harder to keep safe (fresh cut vegetables are more susceptible to problems). The news is going wild about them because it makes news, and that means people think they’re evil and therefore even more newsworthy.
Our system is working.
Things like this are ALWAYS going to happen. The only think you could do is force companies to be a maximum size, which would reduce efficiency of things like testing and make it harder to catch and harder to recall effectively. One nice thing about it being a large effect is that it’s easier to get th word out and successfull recall the affected foods.
So while some conclusions are logical to draw, some of them are wrong - like the meme about the bomber showing where they were hit — and survived to land back at base. You want to armour where they DIDN’T make it back to base. It’s not a strictly applicable metaphor, but if we suddenly had zero recalls, for example, THAT would mean we’re not testing well enough. That we are is the system working.
Gee…
It’s almost like while vertical integration can maximize a corporations profits, it means a single problem fucks up the entire nations food supply…
And that we need government regulations to ensure we have options, which also ensure there’s competition between suppliers, resulting fair prices.
If a single corporation supplies the majority of produce, they can charge whatever the fuck they want.n it’s effectively a monopoly because one when supplier goes down, the few others can’t fill the gap.
This a problem that either needs fixed, or will keep having worse and worse consequences.
That’s not vertical integration. Vertical integration is when a single company owns the supply chain end to end, e.g. if Sysco also owned and operated the farms and restaurants. Or Ticketmaster owning the artist/label, ticket platform, and venue. Owning a broad part of one step is horizontal integration (often approaching a market with few or no competitors).
We HAVE regulations, which is why this was caught and a recall issued.
I made a longer comment, but this company is not worse at safety - they are just a very large provider of products that are inherently harder to keep safe (fresh cut vegetables are more susceptible to problems). The news is going wild about them because it makes news, and that means people think they’re evil and therefore even more newsworthy.
Our system is working.
Things like this are ALWAYS going to happen. The only think you could do is force companies to be a maximum size, which would reduce efficiency of things like testing and make it harder to catch and harder to recall effectively. One nice thing about it being a large effect is that it’s easier to get th word out and successfull recall the affected foods.
So while some conclusions are logical to draw, some of them are wrong - like the meme about the bomber showing where they were hit — and survived to land back at base. You want to armour where they DIDN’T make it back to base. It’s not a strictly applicable metaphor, but if we suddenly had zero recalls, for example, THAT would mean we’re not testing well enough. That we are is the system working.