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The decision removes the last U.S. regulatory hurdle to marketing products from cloned cows, pigs and goats, and puts the FDA in concert with recent safety assessments from European food regulators and several other nations.
Green party vegetarian sells illegal free-range chicken at B.C. legislature. It talks about a vegetarian selling a chicken as an act of civil disobedience in response to the new Food Safety Act regulations that technically prohibit farmers to slaughter animals for sale at the farm.
In addition, we need to increase the number of inspectors at the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Agriculture, and the Consumer Products Safety Commission. And stop hiring inspectors who used to work for the regulating industry or have plans to return there.
Top U.S. food companies, worried recent import scares may turn away customers, launched a plan on Tuesday to add teeth to existing safety guidelines and increase funding for bare-bones federal regulators. To restore Americans' faith, the firms want to enhance government guidelines on how companies verify the quality of food or inputs they import.
Out of 1.3 billion people, they can't find enough workers to enforce safety regulations. Looks like a new niche for illegal immigrants... filling jobs that the Chinese won't do.