Posted on 03/14/2009 11:38:35 AM PDT by pissant
President Barack Obama has said the US food safety system is a "public health hazard" and in need of an overhaul.
He sounded the warning during his weekly radio and video address, as he appointed a new head of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
New York Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has been named for the post.
Mr Obama cited a string of recent food safety scandals including a salmonella outbreak in peanut products this year that has been linked to nine deaths.
The president said recent underfunding and understaffing at the FDA had left the agency unable to conduct annual inspections of more than a fraction of America's 150,000 food processing premises.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
So what is Obama now trying to DESTRACT us from knowing about what he is DOING?
Hmmmmm?
After all, why “waste a crisis”?
A halal czar in the making.
Just indicate if anything comes from China or if an animal was fed anything from China and I’ll be happy. I may not be able to eat anything but fruit and vegetables but I’ll be happy.
Where is the US reporting on this?
..."so we're going to create union jobs for a lot of our otherwise unemployable supporters..."
Here come the Socialist Collective Farms.
WTF - this dude is off his rocker.... based on Mr. Gloom&Doom we should all be dead.
Every crumb you eat will be inspected by another government union worker.
Doesn’t that make you feel much safer?
If Obammie will just send me vouchers for some of that Wagu beef he enjoys on the taxpayer dime...
I’ll be OK.
Federal control of our food supply.
They will declare our home gardens unsafe.
I think you hit the nail square on the head.
WHY is all this stuff all of a sudden “dangerous” to us?
The man will just not stop!
Think I'll go eat a ham samwich in honor of Obama’s “food hazard”.
It's FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!
Fix what’s broke, moron. Start with the Community Redevelopment Act.
Laying groundwork to undo NAFTA as payoff for his union masters?
(Paraphrasing H! here)..I'm sick and tired of..0be's histrionics.
Oh yes, look at the millions and millions of people who die each year because of this new hazard. Another "crisis" coming our way?
Hey barry, the only crisis I see are the millions of defenseless babies ABORTED each year. Do something about that!
But we can't have that now, can we? It makes Socialism look bad, so let's create another "crisis" to convince people that if it weren't for legions of valiant government bureaucrats, we'd all be dying of food poisoning.
Formula: create a problem, apply power, and control. Lather, rinse, and repeat.
Bet you they don’t have to wash their hands either.
9 people die and it’s a crisis
I’d have no problem ditching NAFTA, but for very different reasons.
How did we survive this long without the annointed one ?
Just barely.....
Key words for: food rationing.
Opening the door to control food here as Chavez did?
Cripes. Overhaul health care. Overhaul energy. Overhaul climate. Overhaul education. Overhaul food. Create a new “fuel poverty”.
Am I the only person in America that thinks things are pretty fine the way they are (or used to be 30 years ago) and these bastards, who know nothing of these industries or how capitalism works, are going to “overhaul” us to our demise? The only thing these bastards have successfully “overhauled” is our voting system by allowing people to vote twice, the dead to vote, illegals to vote and convicted felons to vote.
The safest course of action, of course, would be to implement government issued bread rations.
“....recent underfunding and understaffing at the FDA”
(slaps hand on forehead!!) Why!Of course!! I did’nt think of that!!!
Arguably, liberal policy isn’t 100% wrong. Just mostly wrong.
Obama is going to curse the day he decided to not allow the British press in to cover the British PM and him. They are out to get him now and will report all the stuff that the loyal US press will not.
Yeah, he said “Bush’s fault” without naming names.
If one thing is for sure, it’s that we don’t have enough well funded government agencies! Let’s start a few more...if only for the heck of it. Never know when we might be able to figure out a use for one.
Nothing wrong with our food for the most part. If the inspectors would do their jobs and not chicken out with the fines and prosecution we’d be good.
0 is such megalomaniac.
“Before moving to Washington, Hamburg worked for six years as health commissioner of New York.
Obama said the newly appointed commissioner has “not only a reputation of integrity but a record of achievement in making Americans safer and more secure.”
She will be assisted in her job by Joshua Sharfstein, the current health commissioner in Baltimore, Maryland.
The president also said he had instructed the Department of Agriculture to close a loophole in the cattle importation system to ensure that diseased cows don’t find their way into the US food supply. He did not offer specifics.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090314/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticsfoodobama_20090314113553
Yeah millions have died from the unsafe food in the U.S. its about time that Obama is doing something about this (non)ISSUE./s
Everything is a crisis, everything is screwed up so he says in order to get the sheep to follow him to slaughter...
Idiots.
Last year’s jalapeno salmonella outbreak was due to Bush-era Mexico brownnosing.
The pet food and milk scandals were China brownnosing.
Ongoing China food scandals will be a combination of more kowtowing, inadequate source-country food labeling, and deliberate hamstringing of FDA food inspectors at American ports of entry.
Americans might be shocked to know that even their VITAMINS are now often sourced from China.
But that’s A-OK with Zer0.
Instead, gee-gosh lets get go after those insidious American peanut producers.
(Not supporting the peanut company - it’s good and proper it went bankrupt - but just saying Zer0’s priorities are askew as usual.)
Great. Now he’s going to destroy the food industry/farmers. Is there ANYTHING that man likes about America? Seems to me like we did fine before his whiny a$$ hit DC!
Little green crackers for everyone!!!
Bambi has changed his tuned since getting in to the White House. I want my hopy changy guy back and everything will be rosy again.
What a shocker. The Euro/Brit press has gone from heart throbbing infatuation to smoldering hatred of Zer0 in only three months.
Big surprise. I guess he hasn't passed Monsieur F'n Kerry's vaunted "global test."
Exactly.
Even the lemmings are going to sniff something foul in the air.
GREAT COMMENT!
If Obammie will just send me vouchers for some of that Wagu beef he enjoys on the taxpayer dime...
I’ll be OK.
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