NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.
All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.
It's the scale that is the problem (Score:2)
It's important to separate problems out. Some problems are because of scale, and others because of poor practice that are scale independent.
Many composite food stuffs, e.g. ready made meals are disasters waiting to happen, it's too costly and too complex to avoid problems. One bad batch of leftovers may make just you sick, but when you are feeding a few hundred thousand people per batch, one bad batch is a lot of sick people!
Intensive farming and industry have and continue to pump millions of tonnes of
-- "It's not magic, it's work..."