{"id":2673,"date":"2015-11-02T11:02:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:06:35","slug":"it-is-official-americans-are-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2015\/11\/it-is-official-americans-are-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"It is official: Americans are idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Donald Trump&#8217;s ascendancy as a viable presidential candidate didn&#8217;t already prove that we have surrendered our capacity for critical thinking then you need look no further than the USDA&#8217;s food recall email list to seal that judgement.<\/p>\n<p>Stop &amp; Shop is one of the larger grocery store chain owners on the Eastern seaboard. \u00c2\u00a0They have outlets from Massachusetts to central Virginia. \u00c2\u00a0In the Mid-Atlantic states they do business as Giant Food. \u00c2\u00a0 Today Stop &amp; Shop, and Giant Food, issued a voluntary recall for one of the frozen vegetables in their Nature&#8217;s Promise organic line because of an ingredient which is not listed on the label. \u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s what the USDA sent out (emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA) &lt;fda@service.govdelivery.com&gt;<br \/>\n9:55 AM (23 minutes ago)<br \/>\nto me<br \/>\nYou are subscribed to Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts for U.S. Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA).<\/p>\n<p>This information has recently been updated and is now available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Safety\/Recalls\/ucm470386.htm\">Giant Food Alerts Customers To Voluntary Recall Of Nature&#8217;s Promise Organic Edamame<\/a><br \/>\n10\/30\/2015 05:59 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>Landover, Md. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Giant Food, LLC announced <strong>it removed from sale Nature&#8217;s Promise Organic Edamame products because they contain soy<\/strong>, which is not listed on the ingredient label. These products are safe to consume for individuals who do not suffer from a soy allergy.<br \/>\nFor detailed information pertaining to this Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts message, please click the link at the beginning of this bulletin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Edamame are soy beans.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just going to leave that right there so the ridiculousness of this can seep in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Donald Trump&#8217;s ascendancy as a viable presidential candidate didn&#8217;t already prove that we have surrendered our capacity for critical thinking then you need look no further than the USDA&#8217;s food recall email list to seal that judgement. Stop &amp; Shop is one of the larger grocery store chain owners on the Eastern seaboard. \u00c2\u00a0They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-thoughts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}