On Jun 25, 3:47*pm, Christopher Helms > wrote:
> On Jun 22, 1:39*pm, ImStillMags > wrote:
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> > Mark Bittman has a scathing op ed about Food Safety today. * Well
> > worth the read.
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> >http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...-safety-in-the...
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> > If we needed further evidence that the party of “family values” only
> > values wealthy families, we have it now; when these guys say “women
> > and children first,” they mean “first to throw overboard.”
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> > The House’s reactionary majority wants to dismantle two aspects of the
> > Federal system that serve the majority of us not perfectly but
> > decently: the Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC), one of the
> > most effective of all social welfare programs, and the Food and Drug
> > Administration (FDA), among whose jobs is the increasingly difficult
> > one of protecting us from the kind of outbreak of E. coli that just
> > killed at least 39 people in Germany, gravely — perhaps mortally —
> > sickened another 800 and gave another couple thousand a few of those
> > days none of us ever wants.
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> They're going after anything that helps non millionaires. It's not
> just food safety. The idea of government doing anything that makes
> society better makes the right insane with anger. You know what the
> best part is though? When the moneyed interests finally get enough
> reactionaries in Congress to dismantle the FDA, EPA, Medicare,
> Medicaid, Social Security and all the other things they don't happen
> to like under the guise of "stopping the spending," they're going to
> use the savings to cover the cost of more tax cuts aimed at
> corporations and really, really rich people. Even Ryan's plan to "fix
> the deficit" couldn't possibly have worked, since it had massive tax
> cuts baked into it. It usually doesn't look like it, but when they cut
> this or eliminate that, they always immediately blow the money on
> still more Platinum Series tax cuts.
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> Republicans: Creating a nation where food poisoning and guns in bars
> are moral and school lunch programs for poor kids are not.

We now know with reasonable certainty which insecticides are killing
off the bees we depend on for pollination. (They are nicotine
derivatives.) They have been banned in several European countries, but
not here. Our regulators say that the evidence in not "conclusive". Is
this a case of the chemical lobby vs. the farm lobby?

Jerry
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Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.