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September 1, 2018
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June 21, 2018
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Farm Bills, NAIS and other national disasters
March 5, 2009
National Animal Indentification System Colin Peterson, Farm bill, FDA, food imports, food safety, NAIS, USDA 2 Comments
In 2007, Representative Colin Peterson (D) MN, slipped a provision into the 2007 Farm Bill, reducing the number of required federal inspections for small meat processors. I find this interesting considering how hard he is pushing NAIS.
By Peterson’s own admission, he has authored several bills moving the inspection of food from the FDA to the USDA. Somehow, this seems akin to shuffling chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Neither agency is capable or willing to work within their mandates.
It would appear Peterson condones the harassment and raids by USDA and FDA on farms and ranches in order to frighten them into complying with NAIS and to end independent farms and ranches in favor of industrialized factory farms.
USDA was given the job of enacting the 2005 Labeling Law, which would have required the country of origin to be listed on the label and could have been a [traceability] component when food contamination appeared in the US as a result of e-coli, melamine additives to falsely increase protein content in animal foods, and other contaminants that were dumped into our food supply and co-mingled with domestic products.
As of this date, USDA still has NOT enacted that law claiming that it is too cost prohibitive. But! it seems they have LOTS of money to spend trying to implement and force compliance in the National Animal Identification System; A system no one but industrial factory farms and bio-pirates wants or needs.
As of 2007, the USDA and FDA combined were only inspecting 1% of the $65 billion in food imports. Almost without exception, any food contamination has occurred in the contents of imported foods and seldom occurs in domestic production systems and when it has happened, is usually at the point of processing where we are supposed to have inspectors. Once these contaminated and un-inspected food products are dumped into the domestic food supply, it is nearly impossible to track the source. I was able to find no data for 2008.
Domestic producers (other than most meat), can expect to see an FDA inspector once every 5-10 years.
If I understand correctly, FDA even with USDA help cannot inspect any more than 1% of food imports, cannot show up to inspect domestic producers any more often than once in every 5-10 years because they are so understaffed and under funded……but they have the time and resources to conduct raids and put farms and ranches under surveillance who have refused to submit to NAIS and Premises ID?
When the head of Georgia Peanut Company knowingly ships out contaminated products while sitting on a quality control board for the USDA, I believe it highly unlikely that USDA would be an agency capable of protecting anyone’s safety on any level.
It seems to me if our food producers are so vulnerable to safety issues, we would strengthen the known source of most contamination: foreign imports. Yet even as the multiple instances of food contamination were reported, neither USDA nor FDA or Colin Peterson for that matter, made any move to halt imports from China, Viet Nam, or Mexico: countries that had all sent us contaminated foods. And, neither did anyone else in either house of congress. I guess as long as they weren’t forced to consume any of this garbage shipped in from countries whose standards are nearly non-existent, it didn’t matter.
As food imports have increased dramatically in the last ten years, food inspections have decreased.
Colin Peterson had this to say about contaminated foreign products in May, 2007:
“The next time tainted food or feed products slip through the very large crack in our import inspection system, we may be forced to confront a much more serious situation in terms of animal or human health” he said.
Wouldn’t this indicate at the very least that the attempt to force a pointless, costly program that has absolutely no value to anyone (NAIS) should be scrapped and an increase in inspections, labeling and tracking of imports be the cause of the day?
©2009 Marti Oakley
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