This is the reason I don't eat salad outside my home. Especially because restaurants in the US (and Canada - but even in Brazil as well) does not even have the habit of rinsing and cleansing the veggies.

In Brazil the health ministry usually recommended using a dosage of sodium hypochlorite to remove some of the germs. In Canada, I don't even find an equivalent (the closest thing is plain Clorox, but they don't even include the concentration in the label).

So people rely solely on fiscalization by government agencies, and guess what, they fail because if some austerity freak run the agency, they only care about cutting costs and dismantling regulations. Our current neoliberal and libertarian phase of capitalism don't even care if they are selling rotten and contaminated food.

[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Can we graze less livestock over our veggies, and give the workers proper bathrooms and hygiene supplies, please?

Or nah. Maybe that's too expensive for the agriculture megacorps and might cut a millionth of a percent into their profits. What am I thinking?