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by mardef 584 days ago
I just wanted to look so I had context. Annual production of butter in the US is over 2,060,000,000 pounds.

These aren't new rules and are in place to literally save lives.

Are people really "sick and tired" of .003% of the butter being recalled? I feel like repeating "80,000 pounds" is attempting to appeal to emotion over the destruction of some mass quantity when in reality it's a rounding error.

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> I feel like repeating "80,000 pounds" is attempting to appeal to emotion...

It's also attempting to appeal to rampant innumeracy!