Posted on 10/08/2006 3:23:02 PM PDT by US Navy guy
All these years they were raising "The Comic Book Guy" from the Simsons.
Hmmm....I thought that was what the FDA was supposed to do already?....I think environmentalism is to blame. Recycle this, recycle that, no pesticide this, no pesticide that, no DDT this, no DDT that, cut corners here, cut corners there. All for the same of Organicism, California is one of the worst environmentalist kook-oh enclaves of nuts I've ever seen or heard of. I'm not buying produce from Callie ever again if I can help it....
Maybe you missed this: Food Illnesses Decline, CDC reports
Consumers get part of the credit, for handling food more safely at home, but experts say the biggest improvement came from better industry controls and inspections.
Looks like the system you scorn is doing a pretty good job. It's a good thing we don't accept what you want us to believe without checking the facts first.
You scorn the FDA for making your food safer, or the CDC for reporting it?
I scorn the UN, and regret the American people elected such a president as Clinton, who ordered the harmonization of our standards downward to the Codex Alimentarius and left decisions about our food safety to international 'working groups'. Apparently you have a vested interest in them.
She probably holds both organizations in contempt since they're staffed by people she didn't get to vote for. Makes them unconstitutional as well.
Shouldn't you ping the person you are talking about? Its only polite, after all.
I never met a conservative who didn't believe in elected representation-- . Clearly self government isn't something that you care about, or concerns you.
I think it's getting past the point where you should get a pass for sloganeering. Are you saying that your elected representatives on the FDA could've prevented this outbreak, or that simply abolishing this Codex-thingie would make us all live happily ever after, with no threat of food contamination?
FYI
Codex Alimentarius Commission acts as the world's food standards setting body by creating standards and guidelines to govern international trade through ratifications of standards and guidelines ("texts"). Trade disputes between nations are settled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) which can impose substantial trade sanctions on non compliant countries unless they have protected their rights to enforce their own health standards domestically and through international trade by using the "Codex 2 Step" (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/books.shtml).
Although Codex texts are voluntary and advisory (ftp://ftp.fao.org/codex/Alinorm06/al29_41e.pdf),(paragraph 24, p. 4) lack of compliance with Codex texts can result in punishing WTO sanctions.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb444957.htm
Your defense of a supranational institution effecting controls over any facet of life in the United States is unsurprising and anti-American.
And your solution is for the American public to elect every bureaucrat for every position within every government agency? Is this what pro-American citizens believe? Is this what the Constitution calls for?
WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE SEND TED TURNER A SALAD.
Using hedgelogic, it must make us advocates for open borders then.
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