COLUMN: House floats idea for fish inspections, but no one is biting - (Washington Post)
March 11, 2008 – 6:40 pmhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031002378.html
Catfish, a specialty of the South, is, according to this story, not what you’d call a giant of agricultural commerce. Yet thanks to the Catfish Farmers of America, the Senate has included a provision in a farm bill to help the catfish industry.
The measure, championed by senators from catfish-producing states such as Arkansas and Mississippi, would require catfish to undergo inspections similar to those for meat and poultry. Catfish advocates say the provision would protect consumers from tainted food while skeptics (and there are a few) say it would keep out imports, especially from Asia, that compete with the home-grown stuff.
The story, like the proverbial one that got away, gets bigger from here.
The House did not pass a similar measure, but it also did not want to be left out of the catfish fight. So House staffers, anticipating that other aquaculture lobbies would clamor for their own benefit, drafted a […]
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