Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Aug 23, 2019 | Alexandra Berzon, Shane Shifflett, Justin Scheck

[Leaning Right]

Many of the millions of people who shop on Amazon.com see it as if it were an American big-box store, a retailer with goods deemed safe enough for customers.

In practice, Amazon has increasingly evolved like a flea market. It exercises limited oversight over items listed by millions of third-party sellers, many of them anonymous, many in China, some offering scant information.

[BobL]

“Even slaves at the turn of the 18th century were allocated an average of 150 pounds of meat a year.””

One of the videos that I watched mentioned that slaves back then were eating MORE MEAT than the average American does today. Kind of puts things in perspective, I’d say.

[BobL]

“A bunch of self-appointed dietary experts spouting theories no one who wanted to read about Amazon gives two craps about”

So how’s the country doing with regard to obesity and diabetes listening to the OFFICIAL dietary experts, particularly in the past 30 years?

[Leaning Right]

“Dietary experts”? I freely admit that I don’t follow. Amazon is evidently selling things (like sleeping mats) that are unsafe. And that was the point of the article. Buyer beware.

[Nik Naym]

“So how’s the country doing with regard to obesity and diabetes listening to the OFFICIAL dietary experts, particularly in the past 30 years?”

What the heck does that have to do with the title of the thread or topic of the article?

This is one of the most egregious examples of a thread hijack I have seen in a long time.

[BobL]

“This is one of the most egregious examples of a thread hijack I have seen in a long time.”

Then SCRAM. The poster of this thread gave me permission to take it over. Start your own thread if you want. No one is making you stay here.

[Nik Naym]

“Then SCRAM. The poster of this thread gave me permission to take it over. Start your own thread if you want. No one is making you stay here.”

Then how about having the title of the thread changed to something having to do with the subject of the thread, so then I would have never walked in here in the first place.

Jerk.

[Leaning Right]

Original poster here. I don’t think in the history of FR anyone has deliberately set out to “hijack” a thread. Folks share information, and ask questions. And the thread goes where it goes.

[BobL]

Sorry about that part. Anyway, we do have a bit of the original topic of this thread here too.

Any, I do like your tagline though!

[BobL]

Thanks LL, and I do understand Nik’s points, as this site would be useless if this happened a lot.

[moovova]

Agree completely.

[Richard Kimball]

Not only is this not news, there never were any good old days to long for.

Just throwing it out there, but the "good old days" were generally when someone else handled the problems.

When you look at old Twilight Zones, Rod Serling, who suffered from flashbacks due to his WWII experiences, saw the late fifties, early sixties as the driven, pressurized era, and the good old days were his childhood in the teens and twenties. Later shows had the late fifties, early sixties as the good old days. The good old days were when you were too young to notice other people were holding back the harshness of the world.

[discostu]

Big deal. Doesn’t mean you should listen to him. As is clear from the stupid crap he says.

[discostu]

The hell you can’t. That’s pure BS from the whiny bitch crowd. Now if your diet is REALLY bad sure. You still need to control your intake. But output still matters, and has all the benefits I already listed. I absolutely will not, ever, under circumstances, be on a diet that doesn’t allow cheesecake. Because frankly life without cheesecake isn’t life. And yet, I can keep fit and trimmish. How: EXERCISE! I just swam enough to give myself the shakes. With cheesecake last night. And more tonight. You CAN outrun a bad diet.

[discostu]

Exactly. And it can be hard are really fighting out natural instinct. The human body really wants to see every square meal as the last good meal ever, pack on the pounds cause starvation is coming. It’s about overcoming out nature. Some find it easy. Some find it hard. Some find it impossible. I find it challenging but worth the effort.

[SamAdams76]

A discriminating buyer can easily weed this inferior third party stuff out.

One important indicator is the "Prime" checkmark. If it does not have that, it's likely third party.

[BobL]

“Big deal. Doesn’t mean you should listen to him. As is clear from the stupid crap he says.”

Obviously I don’t listen to him, but I’m sure his students do, and they are the ones who set policies, some of which have to be followed, or else. Others will be directly telling people (patients) to eat the crap...and effectively destroying their lives if they have diabetes or are prone to it.

[discostu]

I doubt it. And no students don’t set policy. Nobody really listens to dietary experts. Most folks don’t even know what the government’s current recommended diet is. I know the pyramid got thrown out over a decade ago, but I neither know nor care what they replaced it with. It’s something they should 1st and 2nd graders and by the time you hit high school you’ve moved on in life. I know diabetics, and the first thing they get told from their doctor is cut out carbs, if you’ve got diabetes you reduce sugars, including carbs. Sorry but your idea of the government pushing carbs is as wrongheaded and inaccurate as your idea of carbs being universally bad. You are, quite simply, full of it on all counts.

[BobL]

“And no students don’t set policy.”

Thank you for confirming that you’re TROLLING here, as you obviously know that students quickly leave college and get jobs in the real world, some in policy making, particularly from schools like Harvard.

Even though you are TROLLING, I’ll respond to the next two sentences for others here:

“Nobody really listens to dietary experts.”

The (high carb) Guidelines published by the US Government become REQUIREMENTS in many places, including the military, hospitals, and schools. Even worse is that doctors who want to keep their insurance or stay in their medical groups, or not be sued MUST follow the the Guidelines. So even though no one here consults the Guidelines before throwing a steak on the grill, plenty of people do.

“Most folks don’t even know what the government’s current recommended diet is.”

Related to the above, they don’t need to, but they get hit by them when their doctors don’t tell them to get off carbs (either because the doctors won’t tell the truth, or because they want to keep their business from being shut down).

[discostu]

Not trolling. Pointing out you’re wrong. And how many Harvard nutrition grads are setting national food policy right now? What is our national food policy right now? Where is this grand conspiracy you insist is pushing carbs? PROVE any one of your many ridiculous statements.

No they don’t. You are, once again, WRONG. hell the current dietary guidelines aren’t even high carb ( https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/resources/2015-2020_Dietary_Guidelines.pdf ). That’s how 100% off on your own you are. Abandon your ship dude, it’s already at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

[BobL]

As it is, I don’t feed TROLLS here, so have a nice evening and Sunday.