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Food Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

4.9M views3 years ago1 recommendation

NutritionEvidence and public healthPublic health and policy

John Oliver examines the systemic issues and lack of funding within the FDA and USDA that compromise food safety in the United States.

John Oliver discusses the groups in charge of keeping our food safe – from the FDA, to the USDA, to, most crucially, the Association for Dressings and Sauces. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/lastweektonight Find Last Week Tonight on Facebook like your mom would: www.facebook.com/lastweektonight Follow us on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news: www.twitter.com/lastweektonight Visit our official site for all that other stuff at once: www.hbo.com/lastweektonight

Why it's here

1 person recommends this

What people say. Recommended as an eye-opening overview of how underfunded and fragmented food safety regulation is in the United States.

no_wizardin Hacker News • Recommends

On “U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds”

…they hit the market It could be solved by creating a single agency dedicated to food safety and removing the burden from two the agencies that have many other priorities on top of food safety. That in a tl;dr nutshell is the problem. There is a good overview of these dynamics done by Last Week Tonight that’s on YouTube I recommend for an overview: link to this video…
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manquerin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?”

…recent in depth segment on how little resource we have for food enforcement3 sometimes as little as singe digit inspectors for an entire industry. We don't really enforce food regulations, because we don't fund the regulatory body for food safety. 1 link , compare that Drugs moved from 1,330 to 2,116M in the same time period. 2 link 3 link to this video…
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tootiein Hacker News • Mentions

On “Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food”

John Oliver did a whole bit on the FDA recently. They are very stringent and professional, but massively underresourced for the amount of ground they have to cover. And they spend most of their resources on drugs and far less on food. link to this video
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soraminazukiin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"”

Unfortunately, farming isn't devoid of BS either. As is the case with many other topics, John Oliver did multiple segments on that as well. link link link to this video Also link
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