Posted on 09/17/2013 7:22:13 PM PDT by chessplayer
A meat inspection program that the Agriculture Department plans to roll out in pork plants nationwide has repeatedly failed to stop the production of contaminated meat at American and foreign plants that have already adopted the approach, documents and interviews show.
The program allows meat producers to increase the speed of processing lines by as much as 20 percent and cuts the number of USDA safety inspectors at each plant in half, replacing them with private inspectors EMPLOYED BY MEAT COMPANIES. The approach has been used for more than a decade by five American hog plants under a pilot program.
But three of these plants were among the 10 worst offenders in the country for health and safety violations, with serious lapses that included FAILING TO REMOVE FECAL MATTER from meat, according to a report this spring by the USDA inspector general. The plant with the worst record by far was one of the five in the pilot program.
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>>>Companies hiring their own inspectors.<<<
Guess that means more government.
Yet Big Gov is trying to shut down, by over regulation, the family operated small business that processes the meat I buy from a local farmer. Lovely.
Exactly. It’s time to end federal oversight and go back to state or local inspectors.
The USDA has become the bottleneck in our nation’s food supply.
I have seen a modern hog-plant, up close. It’s not pretty.
I have also seen a modern beef-plant, up close. It’s not pretty either.
And,
I love bacon cheese-burgers!
I have seen a modern hog-plant, up close. Its not pretty.
I have also seen a modern beef-plant, up close. Its not pretty either.
And,
I love bacon cheese-burgers!
We all know the plants aren’t pretty. The point is that it looks like they aren’t even bothering to remove fecal matter before they give it to customers.
That’s because they should be flying planes, not inspecting meat. Duh!
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