'This bill gave the FDA a lot more than mandatory recall authority, and the last place I would look to ensure food safety is the FDA. We have only to look at the cancerous history of the FDA in regards to pharmaceuticals to know that this agency should have been the last one considered to stand guard on our food supply. How many people have been harmed, maimed, or killed as a result of FDA approved drugs that were lethal, yet approved for use on the public? Anything for a buck, right? When will we see Senator Durbin on the floor of the senate lamenting that?
This bill also authorized the hiring of thousands of new agents but these new agents won’t be on the docks inspecting imports before they enter the food supply and they won’t be used to increase the number of inspections in processing plants. No….these new agents will be attacking domestic farmers and ranchers and they will do it knowing all the while that they are infringing on idividual rights, property rights and in clear violation of multiple Constitutional protections meant to prevent this very kind of thing from happening.'
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