Viruses the New Condiment

Lip writes to tell us that a new bacteria killing virus has been deemed safe by the FDA as a food additive for ready-to-eat meats. These bacteriophages are designed to kill a common microbe (Listeria monocytogenes bacteria) to which hundreds of deaths every year have been attributed. From the article: "The viruses are grown in a preparation of the very bacteria they kill, and then purified. The FDA had concerns that the virus preparation potentially could contain toxic residues associated with the bacteria. However, testing did not reveal the presence of such residues, which in small quantities likely wouldn't cause health problems anyway, the FDA said."

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The federal government is not responsible

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It's not the federal governments primary responsibility to protect your food. The federal governments primary responsibility is to protect the federal government and to keep a strong defense budget. Most money is going into defense, not food and water security, and thats why you have no food and water security.

It's people like you who support big government, but then complain about the big government you created in the first place. If you don't like big government, stop creating it. You know how governments are, you saw Katrina. The era of big government died in New Orleans. Bill Clinton himself said the era of big government is over. Accept it.

Learn to govern yourself and stop expecting other people to do it.