Amazon-owned Whole Foods has joined the list of grocers that are recalling select jalapeño products amid an ongoing Salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds and hospitalized dozens.
According to the CDC, that outbreak has now sickened at least 345 people as of August 10. Worse, 36 of those individuals have required hospitalization.
Free market folks love to crow about the invisible hand and market corrections (and they’re not completely wrong). They just forget that, in the real world, “market correction” often looks like people dying.
I don’t think they forget. I just don’t think they care.