Friday, February 13, 2009

A Rare Defense of Government Standards

Some dude has written a half-humor, half-scare column about the bugs n' shit in your packaged food. Just a little more protein! as Dad used to say.

Posted by IOZ at 10:00 AM | email »
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15 comments:

Montag said...

but is the amount of filth in our food expanding or contracting? is momentum on the side of those who want to relax regulations or those who want safer food?

11:15 AM
Mr.Fundamental said...

free your inner bug man.

11:19 AM
Freiheit said...

I think the dude is actually a woman, and she's a creative writing professor. That article seems to be an excellent argument against tenure.

11:32 AM
IOZ said...

I call chicks dude all the time in RealLife™, but only if they smoke pot with me, so jury's out on my usage here.

11:51 AM
Anonymous said...

But would Levy be likely to partake? I should think she'd object to all the pubic hairs and maggots in your weed, or whatever.

12:25 PM
IOZ said...

Shit is skunk, you.

12:55 PM
SteveB said...

but is the amount of filth in our food expanding or contracting? is momentum on the side of those who want to relax regulations or those who want safer food?

An excellent question. Or, to put it another way, is that glass of tomato juice half empty, or half full of maggots? It all depends on how you look at it, really.

12:59 PM
A Different Matt said...

What a weird comment, Freiheit. What does gender have to do with anything here? Like, I get that a creative writing professor penning an Op/Ed about FDA regulations could be a point of contention, but what's up with quibbling about the author's sex, or IOZ's familiar description?

1:10 PM
Anonymous said...

insect larvae are tasty.

Kai

1:25 PM
Freiheit said...

what's up with quibbling about the author's sex, or IOZ's familiar description?

Because I'm a raving sexist who refuses to accept that a woman could write something interesting.

Or I was just pointing out that dude might not be the optimal word choice.

Take your pick.

3:01 PM
A Different Matt said...

IOZ's pretty smart with his word choice, and I've never read him referring to authors as dudes before, thus I figured IOZ knew this particular author. Of course, if one doesn't start with the assumption that IOZ knows the author, then yeah, I guess "dude" seems crude.

5:13 PM
Anonymous said...

There's bugs in all our food and maggots in our tomato juice and the IOZ forum is arguing about whether to use chairman or chair person.

We're entering a world of pain, son. Drink up, bitches.

5:15 AM
Anonymous said...

IOZ's pretty smart with his word choice, and I've never read him referring to authors as dudes before, thus I figured IOZ knew this particular author.

E.J. Levy, huh? Just be glad he didn't confuse her with E.J. Dionne.

3:34 PM
Freiheit said...

There's bugs in all our food and maggots in our tomato juice and the IOZ forum is arguing about whether to use chairman or chair person.

We're entering a world of pain, son. Drink up, bitches.

Odds that discussing food safety regulations on a blawg will result in changes to those laws: 0%

Odds that discussing proper language and word choice on a blawg will result in changes to the blawg: >0%

Let's not hear any more complaining that the commentariat is opposed to progress.

11:15 AM
Anonymous said...

Freiheit:

Do you know the difference between an observation and a complaint?

3:11 PM

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