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solution: find uncontaminated food, or make it yourself

option 1 - we and farmers, as professionals are responsible for supplying stuff that is not dangerous and works as it should

Option 2 - which you are advocating - it's every man for himself and we decent into socity of warring tribes of hunter hatherer or subsitence farming at best

option 2 is the only possible state of reality, because it is never possible to guarantee that everything work in every instance

let the buyer be aware

I mean, how do you know your webserver doesn't have a bug? How do you know your OS doesn't? Just write those yourself? How do you know yours doesn't? One must still verify the key functionality regardless.

But, you're not wrong, some people reach for every library and framework they can, and others focus on building the most minimal and understandable thing that will work. I'm not saying writing your own server in assembly, but, avoid unnecessary junk and magic and libraries.

It's the classic dilemma: in this world of ours, one can either return to monke or progress to crab.

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