Bad Meat, Mad Cow and Rotten Veggies - Democratic Underground

Pryderi

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Tue Apr-24-07 11:11 AM
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Bad Meat, Mad Cow and Rotten Veggies

How many cases have there been of nationwide recalls of food have occurred since Bush has been in office?

Who runs the USDA, and why hasn't any news outlets pointed to the Bush administration failures on the food front?

If I can't eat meat, veggies or drink water safely do I become a farmer?

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Horse with no Name

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Tue Apr-24-07 11:13 AM
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1. I actually looked at the table of this

and the tainted food reports during Clinton's term was astronomical--in the thousands.
During the same period of time, the Bush folks only had 4.
Now, the way that I read that is that we had oversight--Bush does not. Nothing is reported until it hurts someone.
I'll try to find the info and add it.

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Pryderi

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Tue Apr-24-07 12:20 PM
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10. With this administration cooking the books on everything, how can you

trust your table?

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dorkulon

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Tue Apr-24-07 11:13 AM
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2. Deregulation killed the cats

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=729583&mesg_id=729583

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madrchsod

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Tue Apr-24-07 11:29 AM
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7. the fda regulates pet foods

interesting is`t it...the right hand has no (?) idea what the left hand is doing....

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alfredo

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Tue Apr-24-07 11:14 AM
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3. If you have the land, the expertise, the money, do it. Otherwise

fight to restore meaningful regulation of the food industry.

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butterfly77

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Tue Apr-24-07 11:14 AM
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4. My daughter and I were talking about this ,,,

this morning we were trying to decide what could we eat...

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CountAllVotes

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Tue Apr-24-07 11:21 AM
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5. I'd like to know that too

I'm basically vegetarian and I've been sick as hell since Sunday night - feels like FOOD POISONING btw. :puke:

:kick:

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madrchsod

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Tue Apr-24-07 11:26 AM
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6. the budget of the usda food safety program last year was

half of what we spend on one week of this war....we have to fight them over there so they don`t poison us here?

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unpossibles

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Tue Apr-24-07 12:02 PM
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8. all the more reason to try to eat more locally and/or from trusted sources

if possible, as well as to fight for better food regulation.

fwiw, I still blame meat for the recent vegetable E.Coli contaminations, or rather factory farming to be specific, where the raw sewage/waste is barely treated and easily gets into the ground water and other food sources.

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cliss

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Tue Apr-24-07 12:02 PM
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9. Another way to look at it is,

which will make you the least sick? In other words, will E. Coli kill you quicker than food poisoning, or Hepatitis B?

If you just look at the number of people who have gotten sick, and (more importantly) what happened to them. Fatality? I'd definitely want to know.

I still suspect veggies are a safer way to go than meat. Spoiled meat seems FAR more dangerous than a spoiled tomatoe.

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