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Obama proposes new agency to make Americans’ food safer
Associated Press ^ | Feb 2, 2015 4:34 PM EST | Mary Clare Jalonick

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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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: agriculturedept; fda; federalagencies; federalagency; foodsafety; nannystate; obama; tyranny; usda
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To: SkyDancer
So then what’s the FDA for?

To consume tax-dollars and increase the cost of medical-devices and pharmaceuticals.

41 posted on 02/02/2015 2:26:14 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: tanknetter
Consolidation of government functions to eliminate redundancy and waste, and reducing the number of government staff in the process, is a good thing.
So in concept I can support this if it both reduces government bureaucracy and makes it more efficient.

Except that these functions do not exist as enumerated powers of Congress [See Art 1, Sec 8], therefore the agencies are, at the federal level, illegitimate.

42 posted on 02/02/2015 2:27:35 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
That happens at the individual level, by not fornicating with the food.

So that's why the ice cream in Iraq tasted funny!

43 posted on 02/02/2015 2:29:19 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Olog-hai

There’s nothing that can’t be screwed up even more with yet another fedgov agency.

I vote no.


44 posted on 02/02/2015 2:32:10 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

45 posted on 02/02/2015 2:32:52 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

46 posted on 02/02/2015 2:35:35 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Olog-hai
Dear Obie,

will this be affecting...the BREWING Industry????

M.M.




47 posted on 02/02/2015 2:39:08 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Olog-hai

Isaiah 3:1 For behold, the sovereign Lord of hosts will take away, from Jerusalem and from Judah, the powerful and the strong: all the strength from bread, and all the strength from water;

Isaiah 3:2 the strong man, and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the seer and the elder;

Isaiah 3:3 the leader over fifty and the honorable in appearance; and the counselor, and the wise among builders, and the skillful in mystical speech.

Isaiah 3:4 And I will provide children as their leaders, and the effeminate will rule over them.


48 posted on 02/02/2015 2:39:34 PM PST by moose07 (The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
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To: Olog-hai

Unless there’s money in it for him or his cronies, he wouldn’t care less.


49 posted on 02/02/2015 2:45:57 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Olog-hai

Just what we need - another bloated, self-serving government bureaucracy.
Expect food costs to skyrocket. Buck Ofama.


50 posted on 02/02/2015 2:46:32 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Olog-hai

I would really like to see the blueprint for where this cabal is taking us in the next 2 years. I’m betting on epic fail.


51 posted on 02/02/2015 3:10:36 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: PGR88

nailed it


52 posted on 02/02/2015 3:26:50 PM PST by drypowder
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Crikes we will all be eating soylent green courtesy of Monsanto.


I for one welcome our ABC Agency overlords and plan to buy the Generic Soylent X made by Archer Daniels Midland.
53 posted on 02/02/2015 3:29:57 PM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

LOL!


54 posted on 02/02/2015 3:35:38 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Olog-hai
this just in

my covert operatives have unearthed a photo.... shot for THEIR EYES ONLY.... until the Czarina's Swearing In Ceremony...later this week apparently..

who could have GUESSED??

x
55 posted on 02/02/2015 3:43:24 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Olog-hai; All
Thank you for referencing that article Olog-hai. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

The states have delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the power to regulate food only when it is sold across state borders. This is evidenced by the Commerce Clause (1.8.3).

Otherwise, regardless what FDR’s activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers when the Court wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor in 1942, FDR’s justices also wrongly ignored that the Supreme Court had historically clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate agricultural production.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So what lawless Obama needs to do if he really wants the feds to have the constitutional authority to regulate intrastate food safety is the following. Obama needs to lead Congress to propose an intrastate food safety amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states choose to ratify Obama’s amendment then the feds will have the constitutional authority that they need to regulate intrastate food safety and Obama will be a hero.

56 posted on 02/02/2015 3:46:45 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Olog-hai; All

Predictable.

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM

DEFUND/DISMANTLE socialist agencies, foreign and domestic. Some…here...

http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

http://www.usdebtclock.org

The looting of the republic continues unabated. Children yet to be born will carry the burden of debt that socialists have forced on them.

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat


57 posted on 02/02/2015 4:21:23 PM PST by PGalt
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To: BBB333
I just had two hotdogs for lunch - YUM!

In the not too distant future, that will be a felony if liberals get their way.
58 posted on 02/02/2015 4:24:46 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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To: Olog-hai

...”Obama wants to create a new government agency dedicated to keeping the nation’s food safe.”....

Oh baloney...that’s all that is....he just wants more government to move more revenues around and then send them abroad.

He would do better opening up our farmlands to grow more!!!


59 posted on 02/02/2015 4:26:47 PM PST by caww
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To: Olog-hai
"Prophecy is sure. Ever read Isaiah 3:1-4?"

Our government has become like a pit of evil snakes....we can't tell where the head of one begins and the tail of the other ends.... If ever their was a city in need of “Biblical Judgment”....well.

60 posted on 02/02/2015 5:06:58 PM PST by unread
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