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jabbaciv1181 karma

What did you do after they made you put pants on?

jabbaciv809 karma

Basically we'd need China or somebody to be heading to Mars, then we'll speed it up so we can get there first.

jabbaciv351 karma

You say that

People REALLY believe the entire food world wants to kill everyone else just to make a dollar.

and

To be honest, I've never walked in to a food facility where they started the conversation like this... "How do I kill mass amounts of people legally"

What is your position then on the Nestle formula scandal and subsequent boycott?

For the moment, though, Kabir's anger is directed at the manufacturers of baby formula. Like many of his fellow health professionals, he believes these manufacturers push their products too aggressively, sometimes breaching the stipulations of an international code on the marketing of formula milk drawn up in 1981, ratified by member states of the World Health Organisation, and enshrined in law in Bangladesh since 1984.

That code, in turn, had been prompted by public support of an international boycott of the products of the company that seemed most culpable 30 years ago: Nestlé. The code could have ended the boycott, but campaigners continue to flag it up because, they claim, the company - and many other baby-milk manufacturers - fail to abide by its requirements. Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby-milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby-milk and baby-food imports is worth almost £16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).

While the food industry may not intentionally plan to kill people, is it possible that there are significant elements in the food industry, as in many others, that prioritize profits and monetary gain over safety?

jabbaciv277 karma

I was only 10, but I remember thinking, "I'm pretty sure you can't just kill someone on stage..."

You'll like this bit by Patton Oswalt.

You know how, when you're growing up, up to a certain point no matter what an adult says, it's just gospel? It's just "well, an adult said it, it must be true." And then there's that first thing where you go "I think that's fucking bullshit."

jabbaciv224 karma

I imagine it's much easier to depict a triangle than to accurately depict nether lips.