The Corporate Controlled Media has subjected us to a barrage of think tank rhetoric --
Let's Deregulate.
Let's allow business to operate unfettered.
Allow the marketplace to prevail.
A pox on your house if you suggested the need for regulation!
Until something happens.
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The Georgia peanut plant linked to a salmonella outbreak that has
killed eight people
and
sickened 500
more across the country
knowingly shipped
out contaminated peanut butter
12 times in the past two years,
federal officials said yesterday.
.In God's name, how do you justify shipping contaminated food?
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The FDA has never inspected the plant, instead delegating that duty under a contract to the Georgia Department of Agriculture. The federal agency has said it does not have enough inspectors to visit the country's 65,520 domestic food production facilities. In fiscal 2008, it inspected 5,930 plants.
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... Jean Halloran, director of food safety for Consumers Union, said if the government was adequately protecting the food supply, the outbreak could have been minimized or even prevented, and lives could have been saved. Major reforms in inspections and regulations are past due, she said.
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We seem to need a major re-think of our priorities when we fail to insist on corporate responsibility and adequate inspections.
.The rest of the article can be found Peanut Processor Knowingly Sold Tainted Products.
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