Roll Call is reporting
that Big Meat is less than pleased with the food safety bill currently
moving through Congress. While on its face, this might be surprising,
what’s been notable to this point, as Jill Richardson recently pointed out,
is the overwhelming support the bill has found among other industrial
producers. Nothing like a $1 billion in losses from some a little bit
of contaminated peanut butter to convince you that maybe, just maybe,
the government has a role to play in food safety.
But of course, that logic didn’t appeal to Big Meat. This despite
the facts that deadly E coli infections are once again on the rise—the
USDA recalled 300,000 pounds of ground beef last month alone. Big
Meat’s issues are what you’d expect—the new fees are too high, giving
the government mandatory recall power (which it does not currently
have) is excessive, and inspecting farms and livestock operations is
unnecessary.
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Big Meat Says, "Keep the FDA Away from Our CAFOs!"
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Food safety beefs
By Tom Laskawy
Grist Magazine, June 8, 2009
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