Obama warns of US food 'hazard'

BBC ^ | 3/14/09 | staff

[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.

[pissant]

Another phony "crisis" to open the door to more socialist, bureaucratic BS.

[nmh]

So what is Obama now trying to DESTRACT us from knowing about what he is DOING?

Hmmmmm?

After all, why “waste a crisis”?

[RegulatorCountry]

A halal czar in the making.

[heartwood]

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.

[combat_boots]

Where is the US reporting on this?

[JimRed]

The president said recent underfunding and understaffing at the FDA had left the agency unable to conduct annual inspections...

..."so we're going to create union jobs for a lot of our otherwise unemployable supporters..."

[TYVets]

Here come the Socialist Collective Farms.

[mike_9958]

WTF - this dude is off his rocker.... based on Mr. Gloom&Doom we should all be dead.

[Dog Gone]

Every crumb you eat will be inspected by another government union worker.

Doesn’t that make you feel much safer?

[Responsibility2nd]

If Obammie will just send me vouchers for some of that Wagu beef he enjoys on the taxpayer dime...

I’ll be OK.

[SIDENET]

Federal control of our food supply.

[RegulatorCountry]

Don't forget the Champipple ... errr, Crys-tall to wash it all down.

[dforest]

They will declare our home gardens unsafe.

[dr_who]

I think you hit the nail square on the head.

[RebelTXRose]

WHY is all this stuff all of a sudden “dangerous” to us?
The man will just not stop!

[Responsibility2nd]

A food hazard, huh?

Think I'll go eat a ham samwich in honor of Obama’s “food hazard”.

[3catsanadog]

The sky is falling. We must expand another beauracracy, raise taxes, pass more laws that will stifle production. Millions are dying right before our very eyes in the streets.

It's FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Fix what’s broke, moron. Start with the Community Redevelopment Act.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Laying groundwork to undo NAFTA as payoff for his union masters?