Re:Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trade...
by rsynnott on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:49AM
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Incidentally, as to _why_ this is, I suspect that it's
(a) because safety, as a concept, has somehow become highly politicised in the US (albeit recently in weird directions; bundling of anti-vax-ism into the far-right and increasingly the mainstream right has lead to the odd situation where the traditionally anti-safety faction are pushing for _higher_ regulation in one narrow area) and
(b) because the US's regulatory apparatus is much more politically influenced than that in most developed countries, due to how the US civil service works.
(a) because safety, as a concept, has somehow become highly politicised in the US (albeit recently in weird directions; bundling of anti-vax-ism into the far-right and increasingly the mainstream right has lead to the odd situation where the traditionally anti-safety faction are pushing for _higher_ regulation in one narrow area) and
(b) because the US's regulatory apparatus is much more politically influenced than that in most developed countries, due to how the US civil service works.