Thursday, July 9, 2009

Monsanto's choice to run food safety for the FDA

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/fox-guard-henhouse-former-monsanto-vp

Seriously do you still think your government isn't bought off


Obama's considering appointing a former Monsanto vice president, Mike Taylor, to head the Food Safety Working Group at the FDA.

As Jill Richardson writes at LaVidaLocavore at the link above, Taylor thinks the FDA wastes too much time on food safety inspections at meat packing plants. Further, he believes that one of their main problems is that they have to slow down their line speed too much.

Everyone who's read anything about the horrendous working conditions at US meatpacking plants knows that incomplete kills before slaughter and worker injuries increase dramatically when line speeds increase.