1. Being from UK where we have just had months of "how the hell did horsemeat get into every burger and lasagne meal?", the idea Europeans have this food business sorted is laughable.
2. All western countries have high standards in food processing. The differences are arbitrage not horrors that will kill us all, as this article rather lazily implies.
3. processing food is mostly the problem. Processing meat is almost the whole problem.
I don't see where TFA aruges that the food business in the EU is sorted, rather that many practices which are rightly illegal in the EU are legal in the US.
Murder is illegal everywhere, but that's not to say it never happens.
Newspapers here drool over the high standards of food safety in the USA, and literally faint when they find a drug on sale here that the FDA has banned. These things are par for the course - the Germans and UK have very different meat handling laws - but somehow mass food poisoning are rare and all that seems to happen is we get fatter.
Most of what is wrong with our food chain is meat orientated extraction processes pushing low quality cheap reclaims into foods that are overly processed. We know this. It's not a secret nor is it illegal. Nor is it banned in any country.
It's just dumb. The Mr Money Mustache of food would laugh at us.
2. All western countries have high standards in food processing. The differences are arbitrage not horrors that will kill us all, as this article rather lazily implies.
3. processing food is mostly the problem. Processing meat is almost the whole problem.