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by JoeAltmaier 2993 days ago
And who handles the ingredients improperly? Doesn't refrigerate them sufficiently? Uses expired ingredients? Fallible humans. Lets remove them from the equation.
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Robotic slaughterhouses would still have problem keeping fecal matter out of meat. The best way of preventing most food illnesses is radiating the food, but our irrational society won't go for that.
Irradiation does have issues of it's own, like making things taste funky [0]

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03091...

A robot chef is programmed by a human, so the human element has not been removed.
It has been reduced from O(n) to O(1), so much easier to check.
Doesn't chew enough? Doesn't wash their hands before eating? Eats too much?

There's more to the equation! Robots feeding robots built by robots and programmed by robots! A clean solution for a clean planet earth!