Eliminate some, yes.
They can't handle the ones they have, let alone create new ones! Inefficiency, corruption, dead weight employees who have lifetime job security, you name it.....
US cuts animal-tracking plan created after mad cow (update 3)
Snips: The U.S. is scrapping a national system to track livestock from birth to slaughter as industry opposition led to the failure of a voluntary program created after cases of mad cow disease emerged starting in 2003.
Other regions and countries have more comprehensive animal- identification systems than the U.S. The European Union maintains a central database to track the movement of livestock, and all animals must be tagged with details of their origin and stamped with a traceability code when slaughtered. The system has been in place since 2004. Australia began tracing its cattle in the 1960s to help fight bovine tuberculosis.
FDA corruption jeopardizes food safety and public health
…the individual who oversaw the FDA policy that facilitated their introduction holds a uniquely infamous role in human history. That person is Michael Taylor. He had been Monsanto’s attorney before becoming policy chief at the FDA. Soon after, he became Monsanto’s Vice President and chief lobbyist.
This month Michael Taylor became the senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. He is now America’s food safety czar. What have we done?
Cook County (illinois) a dark pool of political corruption
Nearly 150 employees, politicians and contractors in the nation's second-largest county have been convicted on corruption charges since 1957, according to a report released Thursday by the university and the Better Government Association (.pdf)