Be Afraid, Be very, very Afraid...Does this make any sense???
2007-05-09 12:45:54 · 4 answers · asked by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It is fraud on the part of USDA and FDA. More fraud! While they aren't inspecting foreign meat they are demanding that anyone who houses even one livestock animal register their premises, tag their animal(s) and eventually be required to report all animal movements. This onerous mandate is called the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). They say it is about disease control, but if that were the truth, they'd be inspecting every food item that comes into this country.
2007-05-09 13:16:20 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The law should be changed that they can do much more than visually inspect the food, like for example they could force producers to inspect and test their own food and report the results.
The FDA could then focus their limited resources on performing audits of those tests to ensure that they are being conducted and reported accurately.
Or a law could be passed making it easier for a private citizen to sue a food producer for selling tainted food. Rather than the laws now that only allow the lawsuit if the producer "knew" it was tainted. Now they can just say they didnt' know becuase the producers are not legally required to test the food or make the results of their internal tests public.
2007-05-09 19:56:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does. Why do you think Americans are relatively suddenly so tremendously obese? We had plenty of fat and cholesterol before, lots of sugar salt and white bread. Lots of people were lazy and inactive, but you rarely saw someone weighing more than 250 pounds. Now it is a common sight. You almost never saw teens weighing over 200, but now there are 9 year olds that big. So probably food plays a very large role in this. Also, chemistry plays a very big role in processed food.
Probably the best you can do now is to buy your food as local, as organic and as unprocessed as possible. I am sure the problems with food are not confined to pet foods.
The FDA and the USDA do not work together at all, which is a big problem. The lack of inspections of foreign food must be a huge problem.
2007-05-09 19:59:43 · answer #3 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is not possible to inspect 100 % of it.
2007-05-09 19:53:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋