Eventually, the Long Term Becomes Today

Three stories. One pattern.

The recall list is difficult to read out loud; a single jalapeño producer from Sinaloa had 431 people spread across 32 states placed on the list, 57 of them ending up in hospital as a result of that one ingredient passing through a distributor and then through the wholesalers, then the manufacturers, and then into
Salsa, pico and guacamole are available at Walmart, Target, Trader Joe’s, Kroger and Whole Foods. Chuck contends that the FDA is not incompetent;
It is poorly resourced and this shows what has been cut. Manny retrieves the actual figures on the recall pace and asks if we are being sensational. In a sensational way, Jeezy poses the harder question: does the fact that it has been caught indicate the system is working, or does the fact that it has spread show it isn't? 

As for beef, the herd size is now the smallest it has been in around 75 years, ground beef prices have risen by about 57% over the last five years, and that is the answer.300,000 metric tons of imported ground beef, about 661 million pounds, with the out-of-quota tariff waived for 90 days. Make it clear that it is 25% below market price. No one will state where this figure comes from. Manny calculates how long that situation actually lasts. Republican Senators from the cattle-producing states are already raising objections, and the figures from the wild horse roundups came out the same week. Then forty trillion. The crew considers five options: growing it, cutting it, taxing it, reforming it, or getting rid of it through inflation, and Chuck chooses to grow it. We don't have the post-war conditions that enabled the 'out of it' theory to work the first time, so we should separate it from that theory by checking it against those conditions.

Also included are the Pickle of the Week, three Spotlights, and one Bone Thugs cold open.