Government tightening food safety standards

uscitizen said:
How many tax dollars have we spent in the last 10 years chasing down food contamination problems?
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I don't know, but if I had to ball park it, I would say annual food inspections cost us the equivalent of about 8 hours out of one day of the iraq war.
 
The investigations into contaminated food has likely cost us more than what food inspectors cost.
but that is what some want.
Turn the manufacturers loose and we will spend billions investigating and prosecuting them.

It will likely be cheaper just keeping them honest with inspections.
 
uscitizen said:
The investigations into contaminated food has likely cost us more than what food inspectors cost.
but that is what some want.
Turn the manufacturers loose and we will spend billions investigating and prosecuting them.
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sounds like we need more inspectors and tighter regulations, to keep it from getting to the point where its contaminated.
 
Cypress said:
sounds like we need more inspectors and tighter regulations, to keep it from getting to the point where its contaminated.
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Yep and the food processors will be able to brag that their product is FDA inspected. Increasing consumer confidence = more sales = more profit.

the fact is that consumers trust the FDA more with food safety than corporations.
 
Cypress said:
sounds like we need more inspectors and tighter regulations, to keep it from getting to the point where its contaminated.
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and this way we can go ratchet back diets to the dark ages where only the elite and wealthy could afford good meat and everyone else would do rice, beans, and oatmeal, right? what's next? hanging peasants for poaching the kings deer?
 
uscitizen said:
Yep and the food processors will be able to brag that their product is FDA inspected. Increasing consumer confidence = more sales = more profit.

the fact is that consumers trust the FDA more with food safety than corporations.
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You god damned socialist!!!


Ha, actually you're right. Even rightwingers would rather have FDA inspect food and drugs, then just let Archer Daniels do what they please. But, I doubt wingnuts are honest enough to admit that.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
and this way we can go ratchet back diets to the dark ages where only the elite and wealthy could afford good meat and everyone else would do rice, beans, and oatmeal, right? what's next? hanging peasants for poaching the kings deer?
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Shit, you're right.

Food safety and inspections will send this country into an economic tailspin, and induce mass starvation.

Damn. You're a freaking genius, Einstein.
 
Cypress said:
You god damned socialist!!!


Ha, actually you're right. Even rightwingers would rather have FDA inspect food and drugs, then just let Archer Daniels do what they please. But, I doubt wingnuts are honest enough to admit that.
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Yep didn't they whine about the cheap Canadian drugs not being FDA inspected so we could not import them?
Even though they were made in the same factory as the US sold drugs ;)
 
uscitizen said:
Yep didn't they whine about the cheap Canadian drugs not being FDA inspected so we could not import them?
Even though they were made in the same factory as the US sold drugs ;)
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It's a form of indirect corporate welfare. They protect their profits as the US paying more subsidizes places that have negotiated lesser pricing.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
and this way we can go ratchet back diets to the dark ages where only the elite and wealthy could afford good meat and everyone else would do rice, beans, and oatmeal, right? what's next? hanging peasants for poaching the kings deer?
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Actually rice, beans and oatmeal are all part of a healthy diet. Too much meat is part of the problem.

now...

Cue the requisite fat jokes from the board "intelligensia".
 
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