US: A beef scandal of our own making - (The New York Times)
February 25, 2008 – 8:30 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/opinion/l25beef.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Gary L. Peters of Paso Robles, Calif., writes that the Feb. 21 editorial The Biggest Beef Recall Ever made some excellent points. Unfortunately, in a nation of more than 300 million people, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to produce enough wholesome food for everyone, especially as we start using our agricultural prowess to fuel our monstrous fleet of S.U.V.s.
Even factory agriculture has its limits. At the same time connections between the food industry and government agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have become so incestuous that we should expect little from them.
As nutritionists have repeatedly pointed
out, the government can no longer even produce a food pyramid that makes any sense for fear of irritating some agricultural special-interest group.
If we cannot separate government from economic special-interest groups, then we will continue down the same path we are on. Common sense tells us not to […]
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