America's Slacking ya'll we slacking
America has giant food producers and a lack of adequate government regulation.This means we have such big food producers but they aren't being inspected as much as they should be. Its like having a big bath tub with little substances floating around you. You don't know what it is and you don't want to take the time to see what it is so you just get out of the tub and drain the water. As of America's food system we have less food inspections than we used to. This worries me because we are less cautious than we used to be. I feel food industry isn't worried about the consumers. Our health is in the hands of factory workers who we don't know. In 2011, 48.7 million Americans got a food born illness 127,839 were hospitalized and 3,037 died. This was the outcome of the decrease in food inspections. I think the government needs to increase the inspections back to where they were it'll be less problems with food and food won't have t be recalled as much. Whether you agree or not food plays an important role in our lives as well as the people who precess and stamp it.
I agree. I think some extra funding should go into the FDA if the case is a lack of people being able to inspect food. The government should put money into that before they are putting money into everyones pockets from lawsuits. In this article I found, the amount of people sent overseas to inspect food has declined 60 percent since 2008. Some of our meats are imported so the lack of inspections put us at high risks. Also, when you think about it not all other countries are as advanced and have as strict rules as the U.S so lord knows what they get away with in the other countries we are getting our meat from.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/11/usda-quietly-eliminated-60-percent-of-foreign-meat-inspections/#.UZDzZaDlfww
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DeleteI agree with you. I don't like the fact that when i eat chicken there is a chance that I might die because of it. Meat contains toxic substances and its sad that the government we trust and elected aren't doing anything about it. People say we should stop eating the meat and the thing is vegetables can't be trusted either. So what are we suppose to do stop eating?
ReplyDeletesource: http://www.naturalnews.com/025957_meat_eating_cancer.html
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DeleteThe food industry is not concerned about us consumers as a whole, however we don't appear to be concerned much about the food industry . If it tastes good we eat it . If you think about it we was brought up to eat food without asking ourselves where its from. Our parents cooked for us and gave us all kinds of snacks as kids. Did you ever ask them "where did this come from , is it safe to eat, or how was it made?' I'm pretty sure I'm not the only kid who didn't think twice about eating what my parents fed me. Why? Because we trust our parents . Simular to the way we trust the food industry . The FDA is to blame for that. We assume that they give thorough inspections but this has been proven time and time again to be untrue .
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DeleteI agree with you that we should be inspecting our food more thoroughly, or at all. However, I would like to know where you got your evidence from at all. We should have more inspectors. The Food and Drug Administration inspectors are inspecting food less and less, the loss of $209 million from its budget will force the agency to conduct about 2,100 fewer inspections, an 18% decline compared to last year. The funding loss, part of the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that took effect March 1, will also delay the agency's implementation of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, Hamburg said in an interview with the USA TODAY Editorial Board.The federal agency that’s been front and center in warning the public about tainted spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half the food safety inspections it did three years ago. Between 2003 and 2006, FDA food safety inspections dropped 47 percent, according to a database analysis of federal records by The Associated Press. If budgets are cut, we are affected greatly, along with the fact that even if people are aware of how bad things are, or can get they still continue to do the same things. If there is no money waving in front of peoples faces they rather do nothing about a situation.
ReplyDelete-Amandar!
You Want Some Sources:
1) http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/24/sequester-fda-food-safety-inspections-commissioner/2110503/
2) http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17349427/ns/health-infectious_diseases/t/risks-tainted-food-rise-inspections-drop/#.UZD288xHhfQ
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DeleteI agree with you. Some food producers doesn't do their job very well. This is important because we eat food for energy and we need energy to stay healthy. When there is bad food we get sick,This is why it is important for the producers to do their job very well.
ReplyDeleteLink:http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/02/big-food-is-making-us-sick/
Link:http://www.forbes.com/sites/investopedia/2010/11/02/americas-biggest-food-companies/
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DeleteQuante,
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Solid evidence.
I agree with you because the food that can be given to you may seem fresh and healthy on the outside, filled with all types of bacteria and pink slime injected in the meat. I feel like if the government were more serious about doing food inspections everywhere, especially in small fast food businesses, people wouldn't be getting as badly being caused by the meat. People should always care about what they're eat, but people shouldn't be scared to eat something knowing something tragic might happen to them... something has to be changed... - Qua
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I agree with this idea because food and water are the most important factor to a healthy life other than physical activity. I don't think that it is because they do not care about us and our well being, because the food that they are stamping in good approval is being fed to their children in school and they also eat it. Just because they're part of the 1% does not mean that they get better inspections than the 99%. I feel that they do it as revenge to the corporations, because in the video Food Inc. we learned that the same people approving the food were the same people that used to work in the factories that were getting treated poorly.They had to go through so much to get the food approved that now they're at the the head of the FDA letting infractions slide because they want their pay check!
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i agree with this because with less inspections we don,t know what else were consuming with our food. The only thing we know about our food is that it was stamped to be sent to us with all the issues and toxins that they hold.When you say were slacking your right because those who oversee the procession of our food don't take the time to check or see any problems they just stamp and send the illness to our tables. If you took the time to get a job why don't you do it i mean it isn't hard if you got the job.America is really killing its children because they see this and they let it continue.http://www.keepourfoodsafe.org/category/foodborne-illness/
ReplyDeleteWhy is the food industry sending illness and death to our local supermarkets?
-Maurice