Bush Vows To Keep Food Supply Safe

[deminks]

http://www.wsmv.com/health/13709780/detail.html?rss=nash&psp=news

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush on Wednesday established a Cabinet-level panel to recommend how to guarantee the safety of imported food and other products brought into the country and how to police them better.

The White House denied the effort was aimed at China, though the announcement came the same day senators heard testimony from regulators about problems caused by the extremely rapid growth of imports from China.

"It's important for the American people to know their government is on top of this situation and constantly reviewing procedures and practices," Bush said after his first meeting with the Working Group on Import Safety.

(snip)

Sen. Sherrod Brown said creation of the panel will not address the problem.

"Establishing a product safety panel is like stamping out a single leaf in a forest fire," said Brown, D-Ohio, who called for a broader look at trade issues.

(end snips)

Why do I hear echos of "you vill eat this und you vill like it"?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

1. Well, that certainly makes ME feel better

Because God knows everything they touch turns to gold! No, wait...doesn't sound right...

[HeeBGBz]

8. A Fecal Midas

When everything you touch, turns to shit.

[rpannier]

14. Beat me to it

First thing I thought was..."Given their track record, I'd prefer they just stay out of it."

[peekaloo]

2. now we're really f*cked. nt

[babylonsister]

3. I feel so much better now! He establishes a panel to discuss it, when

he's had the FDA for how many years? Why am I not surprised? Disgusted totally, but not surprised.

[IDemo]

4. In other words, time to stock up on canned foods

[TahitiNut]

5. Tough talk from a coward that takes his own cook and groceries wherever he goes.

Gotta love that "free enterprise" system - just don't kill TOO MANY customers.

[Swamp Rat]

6. Don't eat it!

It's people!!!



Jeebus save us from Dumbya!! O8)

[rurallib]

7. "Cows have left so Bushie closes the barn door."

As usual too little too late. What a fucking idiot. He gutted the FDA so pharma could pull some shit and now he finds out there were 'collateral' problems.

[proud patriot]

9. Hmm , I suddenly lost my appetite

:puke:

[TheDebbieDee]

10. Pleeeeease.....that phucker can't even open a

bag of pretzels without giving himself a concussion!

[VP505]

11. There might be

a silver lining to that cloud. This could help reinvigorate the family farm, or at least give local growers a boost by providing more incentive to buy locally. Home canning might also start sounding like a better idea, that is if people can find time to do it between the three jobs everyone will need to survive if congress doesn't start turning around some of *'S great economic policies..

[Cha]

13. I hear ya,

dude. I've been eating that way for over 25 years and I see more people doing it from our co-op.

[Cha]

12. Does anybody believe a

word that little world-class polluter says?

[VP505]

19. I have it on

good authority that Barney still listens to everything he says but its not clear if he believes a word of it.

[tiptoe]

15. "Keeping FS safe" == Protecting Businesses from exposes of Mad Cow, E Coli, Diethyl Glycol, etc etc

[stillcool]

16. Why do I think of corporate espionage?

I got to lay off the reading for a while.

[mindwalker_i]

17. Bush is talking out of the left side of his ass

Little Georgie always says what's politically expedient for him to say, like we'll get OBL dead or alive, he's not out to nation-build, we will rebuild New Orleans, or al-Q is on the run. Whatever. There's no connection between what he says and what he does other than that he's trying to make people feel ok about stuff as he proceeds to fuck them over.

So my advice is don't listen to him. What he says doesn't matter and has no bearing on what he does.

mwalker

[flying rabbit]

18. What? No blue ribbon commission?

I don't think he is taking this seriously.

[unkachuck]

20. "bush vows to keep food supply safe"....

....like he kept New Orleans dry?

[EFerrari]

21. Time to stock up on MREs. I've got about a month's worth.

:shrug:

[sakabatou]

22. Like everything else?

Puh-leeze

[silverlib]

23. He'll hire a taster for the White House...

I nominate John Cornyn.

[VTMechEngr]

24. We're Boned. n/t

[hyphenate]

25. Does that mean the chimp is going

to be taste tester for all of us?

And why that evoke the scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark with the monkey and the bad dates?

[hatrack]

26. And it only took 6.5 years for him to notice that food safety is . . . important?

Oh, look, a panel! Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.

[tyedyeto]

27. We are 'screwned' if * is going to 'guarantee' our foods.

In fact, we've been 'screwned' ever since he stole the 2000 election.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Well, it's a good way to get more Jesus Freaks and Cronies on the WH payroll.

Whee!