Same old ........ Republicans cave again

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/food-safety/134447-in-sunday-evening-surprise-senate-passes-food-safety-bill-by-unanimous-consent

This is a bad bill. It will put a lot of small farms out of business. Of course I believe that was the point all along. Congress critters paying back big ag companies.
Some days I just want to scream. :x

I am kinda of split on this issue. I work on in the food service industry and I can tell you standards have gone out the window. Along with food safety. A lot of restuarants hire crack dealers off the street people that just don't give a flying rats ass.

I have seen some disgusting things since the private contractor took over. I have seen some of the lowest of low lives hired. It is not just them it is all around the USA.

I hardly eat out anymore just because of that. You would be amazed on how people treat food. I have seen food sit at room temp for hours upon hours when I said something I just get the look of mind your own business.

Here in CA, I have worked for many restaurants. Those family owned and run ones are obvious in how safe they are in the kitchen, just look at which one's are still in business (and I live in a tourist area, so if the tourists won't even eat there...).
But it is true, we eat out a lot less than we used to, and can only honestly blame it on money. Actually, BECAUSE of our lack of money, makes us even more critical on how those feeding us will treat OUR food!

Walter you ever do the serve safe course?

Pissedoffvulcan wrote:

Walter you ever do the serve safe course?

Yep, mine expires in 2013 in fact. Why? Gotta an opening for me at your place? :D

From hotair.com
And when the Wall Street Journal complains of corporate welfare via regulatory expansion, it’s worth noting.
From the Wall Street Journal.
The Senate waved through the largest expansion of food regulation since FDR on Tuesday, 73 to 25, and maybe the bill won the votes of 13 Republicans because there was hardly any public controversy. These days, the government needs to take over entire industries to get anyone to notice.

Not that this bill in the name of food safety isn’t a down payment. The Food and Drug Administration will gain new powers over the 2.2 million farms and 28,000 food producers in America—including federal standards for agricultural practices and food processing, transportation and storage—as well as the authority to mandate nationwide recalls. …

Not surprisingly, this bill’s main critics have been the small farms and local and organic food outfits that don’t have the profit margins to comply with new regulatory burdens like the “risk-based preventative controls” that the FDA will soon enforce. The House version applies even to farmers markets and roadside stands. Naturally, agribusiness and the processed food industry (and their legal departments) couldn’t be happier, and it’s not the first time big business has leveraged government to weigh down smaller competitors.

I stand by my first assessment,THIS IS A BAD BILL.

Walterth3rd wrote:

Pissedoffvulcan wrote:

Walter you ever do the serve safe course?

Yep, mine expires in 2013 in fact. Why? Gotta an opening for me at your place? :D

Lol know mine expired in 2007 they finally got around to renewing it have to take the class in January. My last score was 98.