I didn’t know food was in danger.
Testing the illegal alien employees for communicable diseases?
There was a recent Discovery Channel special about a rich family that was mysteriously stricken with a third-world parasitic diseases. Somehow the film makers managed to fill up an hour-and-a-half of scientific detective work with what anyone could have told them off the bat.
Inspections are nonsense. Irradiation is the answer.
This is another of those Acts we do NOT want to see passed. As you’ve said, the FDA already has enormous power. As one who grows a fair percentage of the food my family eats for health reasons, I am absolutely against this bill passing. In my comments here, I’d like to suggest that people take a look at the following link for further information, and read the bill. Please take a look at: http://www.ftcldf.org/index.html. They summarize the effects of the bill pretty well. Here’s a link to a page about the bill: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-875
Food became less safe under the Clinton administration. He signed an executive order, ordering all branches of the government, including the FDA to harmonize with UN/”free trade” rules which declared that it was a ‘barrier to trade’ if we didn’t allow food to come in from countries with less stringent food safety than we have.
Then Clinton and Bush both, used the USTR office and “free trade” agreements as the reason for matching our food safety rules with the Codex Alimnetarius of the UN, which meant relaxing our safety standards.
This is why it is now ok(in fact required) for the US to import honey from China contaminated with banned antibiotics for humans, and for allowing human sewage fertilized onions from Mexico and elsewhere in the world to be imported into our food supply.
CAFTA is the reason we shut down our domestic sugar producers in favor of slave labor sugar plantations (with no food safety standards) in Dominican Republic.
Finally, these are the reasons we have no ‘food safety’ anymore. Whatever programs the states had, are renedered ineffective by international agreement.
This is the state of our Union. When will the American people stand up for Sovereignty?