General Cooking (rec.food.cooking) For general food and cooking discussion. Foods of all kinds, food procurement, cooking methods and techniques, eating, etc.

 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #12 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,879
Default Food Fraud

John J wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:11:54 -0800, sf > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:55:36 +1100, John J > wrote:
>>
>>> So this FDA allows poisons in food, as discussed in an earlier
>>> thread, and allows food fraud. Interesting organization. Every
>>> country should have one like this!

>>
>> I don't blame the FDA. I blame the party of less government. You
>> want less government, you get less government and big business does
>> whatever it wants to do with no repercussions. Don't be upset that
>> the government isn't looking out for you, because you don't want it
>> to.

>
> But if you poison someone or commit fraud, you go to jail.


No, John, that's not true.

If you do those things and get _caught_ - and catching people is the
government's job in this, a job it can't do if we don't give it
sufficient funds - then you go to jail.

Big difference ...

-S-


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Fraud? Dan Sourdough 3 01-02-2014 12:05 PM
Olive oil fraud A Moose in Love General Cooking 11 08-02-2013 12:52 PM
Burgundy fraud JT Wine 9 30-06-2012 04:55 PM
New book! "Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from PoisonedCandy to Counterfeit Coffee" [email protected] General Cooking 0 26-01-2009 06:01 PM
Citysearch is a fraud! Jacob Rizor Restaurants 4 24-07-2004 04:08 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 10:13 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2025 FoodBanter.com.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about Food and drink"