The new "Privatize the USDA Diet"! You'll be too scared to eat!

[Scuba]

from my email ...

Oh crap (literally): USDA to let poultry companies inspect their own meat. Sign the petition before feces are in your chicken.


Scuba, do you want chicken factories inspected by the poultry companies who own them—while feces-filled birds, doused with chemicals, zoom through the assembly line at three per second? That could be the future, if we don’t act now.

Sign our petition to President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack—urging them to dump the “filthy chicken rule.” Click here to sign.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a rule change that would privatize poultry inspection—allowing companies to inspect chicken and turkey carcasses themselves.

What happens if birds are contaminated with feces? The rule allows companies to douse them with more chemicals, while jacking up assembly line speeds to three birds per second.

USDA will be finalizing a decision soon, so we must act now. Sign our petition to President Obama and Agriculture Tom Vilsack: Reject the “filthy chicken rule.”

Keep fighting,
Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos

[shenmue]

1. Signed

It's a good one.

[Squinch]

2. Signed...but not hopeful.