If anything, this "scandal" or incident has not made me trust the system more as some would suggest (for catching the problem before it was huge), but trust it less. This does not make me want to see deregulation but in fact more stringent regulation. A person in a position of making profit cannot be fully trusted to ensure safety or health legislation is strictly adhered to when such actions limit profit.

And contrary to some who say that this makes one trust big companies less in terms of health and safety of the product the produce, I do not, i never did trust them all that much to start with. If anything, I am more concerned about smaller firms who may be inspected an equal amount but have less money and desire to quickly implement new methods of producing safe food.

Since this broke, there has been no deli meat in my house and a lot more roasts.

Having represented a slaughter house once, I was quite impressed that an independent government-paid veteranarian was present at all times when killing was occuring testing the carcass as it was being taken apart. I don't like the idea of risk management when it comes to food or water.