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  Date / Time: 2/10/2009 6:35 PM UTC

  Bioterror Alert: Dese Nuts Are Dangerous!
  

  
  
  Take a moment and read, or at least scan, this article. What's wrong with this picture?
  
  The blame for this chunky (and sometimes smooth) mess rests squarely on deregulation: the budget-cuts to FDA type (thanks to Bush's 8-year project to defund regulatory agencies responsible for things like food and mining safety, and his appointment of these industries' foxes to watch the henhouse), as well as the deregulation of business. In our anything-goes business climate, temporary workers with minimum-wage jobs are entrusted with protecting you and your kid's health, because, well, that's what businesses are supposed to do.
  
  The article is a bit long, but stick it out... this cluster-f---k of looking the other way and inaction should remind you of similar cases: spinach recalls, unsafe meat, Chinese pet food and poison toothpaste, and a host of other stories that show the FDA simply cannot do it's job with inadequate funding and that relying on businesses to "self-regulate" means that Adam Smith's "invisible" hand is rarely washed after a trip to the bathroom.
  
  If this all wasn't cray enough, read this:
  
  "In examining Peanut Corporation of America’s records, federal investigators discovered that company tests had found salmonella 12 times since 2007. The inspectors said they got the records by invoking a bioterrorism law."
  
  Getting food producers to comply with requests for safety records now requires invoking BIOTERRORISM laws.
  
  Bon Appetite!!
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