{"id":198832,"date":"2007-10-07T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/topps-meat-closes-its-doors-because-of-recall\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T17:29:00","slug":"topps-meat-closes-its-doors-because-of-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/topps-meat-closes-its-doors-because-of-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Topps Meat Closes its Doors Because of Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The massive recall of ground beef has <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/10\/05\/news\/companies\/topps_recall\/index.htm?postversion=2007100513\">forced Topps Meat to shut down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To quote my 2nd favorite movie of all time, John Carpenter&#8217;s remake of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Thing<\/span>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Garry<\/span>: The generator&#8217;s gone.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MacReady<\/span>: Any way we can we fix it?<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Garry<\/span>: It&#8217;s &#8220;gone&#8221;, MacReady. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They aren&#8217;t shutting their doors to reopen later after a cleanup, they have just shut down completely.   They will be liquidating.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, the regulations that the Bush administration has been systematically dismantrling protect both the companies <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and<\/span> the consumers out there.  Had a more aggressive FDA or Agriculture Department caught this sooner, Topps would probably still be around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The massive recall of ground beef has forced Topps Meat to shut down. To quote my 2nd favorite movie of all time, John Carpenter&#8217;s remake of The Thing, Garry: The generator&#8217;s gone.MacReady: Any way we can we fix it?Garry: It&#8217;s &#8220;gone&#8221;, MacReady. They aren&#8217;t shutting their doors to reopen later after a cleanup, they have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}