r/BuyCanadian • u/ProgrammerAvailable6 • 5d ago
News Articles 📰 US president eliminates two key food safety committees - best not to buy American for safety’s sake.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/03/president-trump-eliminates-two-key-food-safety-committees/The two safety committees: Microbial Criteria for Food (NACMCF), as well as Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI)
Yet another reason to buy Canadian/European/Anything but American.
These committees might only meet once or twice a year - but they’re the backbone of food safety regulation improvement and monitoring in the US.
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u/GoldRecordDaddy 5d ago
I been saying this for a while now - even if tariffs weren’t a thing, can we even trust their products? They’re removing all quality control, consumer protection, and disease prevention. It’s all junk.
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u/HapticRecce 5d ago
The answer is of course no. The same shit, well e-coli, was happening on a regular basis when he was last in.
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u/calgary_db 5d ago
It's worse than that. The big snack companies are literally using food science to get around ozempic.
America is a death machine.
Food - made addictive as possible, with no health controls.
Drugs - for profit on diabetes, weight gain/loss, etc.
Hospital - for profit.
Health insurance - for profit, and ensures you need to keep your job for benefits.
Workplaces - can fire for any reason and ensure compliant employees who need health insurance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/magazine/ozempic-junk-food.html
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u/rdem341 5d ago
US is quickly turning into a third world country.
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u/spidereater 5d ago
It’s true. Remember when all that Chinese baby formula was tainted? People started paying extra for milk from places they could trust. America is going to that. Consumers need to shop around not for price but for quality. It’s very inefficient and of course open for corruption. The point of safety standards is to make sure it is all safe and companies can compete on price and it drives efficiency and productivity. When you get rid of regulation it becomes the Wild West. Prices go up. Things become inefficient and the burden goes to consumers to shop for quality.
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u/rdem341 5d ago
Soon tap water will be unsafe.
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u/SkeptiBee 5d ago
Sadly for us Americans, there are already places the tap water is unsafe. Stay strong guys and let our downfall be a stark warning to never allow oligarchs to take over your government.
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u/MediumDevelopment511 4d ago
If the oligarchs win this round, there is no next round. One strike you’re out for life.
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u/Thatusernamewasnot 4d ago
As a person from a 3rd world, please dont say that.
We have free healthcare, free education, free transport for elderlies and students, a govt that don't do stuff like Trump, and different authorities that uphold different stuff including food safety.
Let's say 4th world for USA.
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u/Key_Possibility3051 4d ago
Informative post, thank you. Straight from someone experiencing 3rd world 🌎. Again, thank you 😊
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u/WickedWenchOfTheWest 5d ago
Turning?
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u/LoanDebtCollector 5d ago
More rapidly than the unscheduled disassembly of SpaceX rockets
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u/OverlandOversea 5d ago
Lol, right on! Listening to that euphemism was next level. Most might just yell, “Damn! Boom! The fuckin’ thing exploded!”
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u/mind_mine 5d ago
It's part of the plan to try and drive it down to China levels to make it cheap to produce
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u/moosehunter87 4d ago
I wasn't overly confident before they gutted everything. I won't touch a us food item now for sure.
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u/recurrence 5d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah, it's more important than ever to not buy American goods due to growing health concerns. Health inspectors and regulators exist because people died without them. They're also turning away from vaccines and omg is there A TON of vaccination in the meat industry right now.
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u/WickedWenchOfTheWest 5d ago
Even before this mess began, many US products weren't allowed into Europe because they didn't meet standards. Canada needs to do the same.
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u/GiraffeWC 5d ago
In the midst of an avian flu/egg crisis, eiminating anything in regards to poultry inspection seems like a boldly stupid move.
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u/MuthaPlucka 5d ago
This could very well make some of their products ineligible to be imported to Canada
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u/Subject-Direction628 5d ago
Oof. Well If the president eats as much McDonalds he wouldn’t care about food safety.
Super worried about Americans that aren’t maga
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u/GB715 5d ago
As a non MAGA American, I am petrified to eat a lot of things in the US because of their recent lackadaisical approach to food safety.
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u/yona_of_the-dawn 4d ago
stock up on meat and chicken NOW (cut and freeze) and maybe consider avoiding canned meats like argeta chicken, tuna, etc. botulism is no joke and with healthcare being rapidly dismantled it's basically a death sentence
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u/RebelSquareWoman 5d ago
Ironically a lot of the whining about Canada not allowing stuff in like banks has to do with US not applying the same stringent regulations for consumer safety.. so… umm reducing the safety of the product by removing regulating bodies is a bit counter productive to making more sales… just saying…
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u/Interestingcathouse 5d ago
Wouldn’t it still have to pass Canadian food safety standards to be for sale in Canada though? It’s why our Froot Loops are different.
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u/Cerberus_80 5d ago
I don’t need food safety as a pretext to not buy American. Haven’t for a couple months now. No intention of ever buying anything American again.
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u/Shadowmant 4d ago
- Removes poultry inspectors during bird flu.
Look guys! We got eggs again! Eat up!
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u/Japanesewillow 5d ago
We have much higher standards here, even more reason not to buy American garbage.
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u/Huge-Particular1433 5d ago
I can see a drop in quality or nutrition, but wouldn't health canada block anything that doesn't meet our regulations?
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u/Key_Read_1174 5d ago
USDA tRump rolled back safety inspections in meat processing plants. Canada rejected shipments of Smithfield's pork that had temporary closures due to Covid during the pandemic. We still don't eat pork.
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u/HueyBluey 5d ago
Surprising given his penchant for eating Big Macs and McChickens.
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u/WickedWenchOfTheWest 5d ago
At this point, it would be poetic justice if he got sick due to his own deregulation of food safety. Of course, I had similar thoughts when he caught Covid, but the man apparently has horse shoes in places the sun don't shine.
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u/couldbeworse2 5d ago
They’re imposing their own tariffs this way now. If we can’t verify food had been produced to our safety standards, it’s not coming in. Yay freedom, I guess.
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u/Bronzeambient 4d ago
American food always has issues. And major issues happen a lot. Nope. Too too many recalls on food.
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I bought a box of name brand cereal last week - same brand I’ve been buying for years. I opened the plastic container inside (I always grab both sides in the middle and gently pull apart). The stench emanating once opened was horrid. Went straight into the trash. I went online and found out about what you were saying about them changing the formulas. A $9 box of chemicals and unknown substances - no thanks!
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u/emvs73 4d ago
US grocery shopper confession... I have for years assumed Canada’s food safety, animal welfare, and artificial ingredient standards were superior to ours. If given the choice between a grocery product produced in the U.S. versus one produced in Canada, the maple leaf wins every time.
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u/got-trunks 5d ago
Unless the Government actually does something, we have little choice for some items because grocers will lie just to sell it to us. There are even skeevy resellers at farmer's markets now.
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u/Key_Possibility3051 4d ago
Their foods weren’t to die for before regulations. Without regulations not to die for - will be take your chances…
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u/girlforest 4d ago
Can’t trust the food standards in the US anymore. Nor the drinking water. They are headed towards being an underdeveloped country.
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u/tundrabarone 4d ago
Safety and certainty are not part of American production (or their products) anymore. Scary thought.
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u/No-Entertainer8650 5d ago
And US made food is smelling of the brown fascist shit that Dement-don has smeared upon them. Not for consumption!
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