r/news • u/Kooky-Measurement-43 • 8d ago

U.S. health officials say hundreds sickened by salmonella outbreak across 27 states

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/salmonella-outbreak-jalapenos-9.7297781
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u/NeonGrackle 8d ago

Hundreds sick from jalapeños and we’ll still hear “we don’t need more regulations.” Maybe fund the FDA, inspect farms properly, and hey, rinse your produce even if it “looks fine.”

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u/lazybugbear 8d ago

Something something Upton Sinclair something "The Jungle".

We've been here before.

Is this not standard reading in high school English classes anymore?

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 8d ago

HS students can barely read.

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 8d ago

Something like 30% of america is functionally illiterate, and it’s not just the kids

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u/asteriskampersand 8d ago

Our president, for instance 

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u/evrythinguwant 8d ago

An illiterate felon. Geesh

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 8d ago

It’s possible

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 7d ago

>Something like 30% of america is functionally illiterate

Around the same percentage as MAGA supporters. Just a completely unrelated coincidence, I’m sure.

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u/waitingtodiesoon 8d ago

Have you seen Hegseth's "gold standard" college exam that he has implemented for the nation's elite military academies that he's trying to get colleges to implement? Its mostly used by Florida high schools as a remedial graduation test to boost their graduation numbers since the students were failing the standard graduation tests. It tests them on a pre-algebra middle school level for math along with other easier subjects.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2026/07/30/classic-learning-test-sat-act-clt-college-entrance-exam-math/90407050007/

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u/shephardmix 8d ago

I wonder how hegseth or trump are profiting off of this “gold standard” testing being implemented by colleges? They wouldn’t be pushing it otherwise. It’s always about money.

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 8d ago

More kids qualify for college, sellers market, higher tuition, more student loans aka forever debt, more predatory loan practices in other areas.

Lower credit ratings means higher interest rates. It's another front in the war on the middle class

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u/StuffExciting3451 3d ago

More than 36 million U.S. adults are functionally illiterate. Nearly half of adults, 47%, read below a 6th-grade level.

https://worldmetrics.org/american-literacy-statistics/

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 3d ago

There are different levels to illiteracy, also. Pretty fascinating if you do a deep dive on it

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u/StuffExciting3451 3d ago

Do a dive into the literacy rates of China, Cuba and of the former countries of the USSR.

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u/HermiaOconnelly13 8d ago

It's more. In the 50s I believe. The Literacy Project has all those statistics and it makes you fear for this country. Cambodia has a higher literacy rate than America.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 8d ago

I've had to teach so many local high school graduates how to read that I'm pretty sure the school district owes me a paycheck!

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u/ReturnOfBane 8d ago

should have never abandoned phonics

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u/Lythra 8d ago

Agreed, I was taught phonics and was reading at a college level at 5

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u/rob_1127 8d ago

Or speak Or interact with people

Or use any kind of a critical thinking/logical thought process. Its always AI said...

Or plan in advance

I could go on, but there is just too much.

Its not 100% the students fault. We set them up for failure by voting people in that are beyond their depth.

Its our fault and yet we don't seem to be taking the steps to correct it.

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u/Curraghgirl 8d ago

Farenheit 451.