Congress’ approach to food safety is ‘tough to swallow’

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/congress-approach-food-safety-tough-swallow

It may seem easy to forget, but towards the end of the Bush/Cheney era, Americans were confronted with some major food-safety controversies. After consumers purchased, among other things, tomatoes with salmonella and spinach with E. coli, Rick Perlstein coined the phrase “E. coli conservatism” in response to lax governmental regulations.

In 2010, President Obama and the Democratic-led Congress approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system, expanding the FDA’s ability to recall tainted foods, increase inspections, demand accountability from food companies, and oversee farming. It was the biggest effort on food safety in more than 70 years, all in the hopes of preventing unsafe food from reaching consumers’ tables....

The GOP-led House held a committee hearing in March on funding the effort and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said the budget request for food safety “will be tough to swallow.”

Congressman, I don’t know if you were playing with irony, but you know what’s actually “tough to swallow”? Tainted food.

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1. K&R.....

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2. President Obama appointed MIcheal Taylor,

lawyer and lobbyist for Monsanto, to head the FDA.

This has not inspired any confidence in the people who care what they eat.