Posted on 02/02/2015 1:59:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama wants to create a new government agency dedicated to keeping the nation’s food safe.
The proposal in the president’s budget released Monday comes after outbreaks of illnesses linked to chicken, eggs, peanuts and cantaloupe in recent years. More than a dozen federal agencies oversee food safety, and consumer advocates have long called for bringing all those functions together in a single home. […]
The budget proposes consolidating the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and all of FDA’s food safety oversight into one new agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. The new agency also would coordinate with state and local health departments, a job that is now mostly handled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the budget proposal, the Obama administration says the current system’s “fractured oversight and disparate regulatory approaches” cause confusion. Consolidation “is an essential step to reforming the federal food safety system overall,” it says. …
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Exactly, FDA, done. Or disband the FDA.
We need a law requiring 10 FedGov agencies must be eliminated/defunded every year and before adding a new one, 10 additional ones go bye bye.
how many agencies do we need doing the same thing?
Ban food imports from China and third-world countries.
That will make the supply a whole lot safer.
Why not the Dept of Agriculture?
Why in the HHS and not the Ag dept?
Think Holdomor and North Korea combined.
That is where Obama is taking us.
Thats true on not reducing government bureaucracy.
Make the consolidation contingent upon it. As a test case. If this will make things more efficient make the Administration say how many staff can be reduced by eliminating duplication. If the answer is “none” then the consolidation doesn’t happen.
If the answer is 15% (or an even higher number) then the consolidation gets approved but personnel gets capped at that figure as part of the legislation.
I just had two hotdogs for lunch - YUM!
Holodomor - I hate this damn predictive text!
Someone please,make is stop, please..?..!
Finally! Finally he’s addressing a critical need that america has been pleading with every president since Truman to focus their attentio...oh, wait. My bad. I was thinking of a few hundred things that ACTUALLY FRIGGIN MATTER TO THE VOTERS.
This is stupid. I mean, darwin award stupid, except it probably won’t result in one. But I can dream.
Oh, he just wants total control of the nation’s food supply. Nothing to worry about ...
IMHO HHS is more politicized from an ideological perspective. It’s hard to put a hard core Liberal ideologue to run Ag because the farm belt still wields an enormous amount of power.
Fat chance, quota boy.
Prophecy is sure. Ever read Isaiah 3:1-4?
Because the FDA isn't enough.©
Crikes we will all be eating soylent green courtesy of Monsanto.
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