Politics: Meat-Headed Reasoning
The geniuses at the Agriculture Department, like the rest of this administration, work so hard to twist and rend reality in order to serve their corporate masters that at times, it's disgusting and frightening. I mean, musn't these people just go home and cry because they feel like every single thing they do is about deception and untruth?
Take an example. The Ag department's undersecretary for food safety told a House subcommittee yesterday that the White House would oppose a measure requiring meat companies to reveal to consumers which grocery stores had received tainted meat.
Wait a second, you might be thinking. Shouldn't the government do whatever it takes to let people know when they've bought them some beef that will keep them in the bathroom for 36 hours? Doesn't it make perfect sense that there should be a law that makes it illegal for meat packers to withhold information which could keep people from serving their family pork that will have them converting one room in their home into a vomitorium?
In fact, there is no such law requiring tainted meat sellers from releasing their list of tainted meat buyers. If you buy it, screw you, is the attitude. And apparently, the White House's absolute devotion to protecting any and all industries from regulation even supersedes their commitment to keeping Americans from dying of dehydration from an acute 48 hour period of diarrhea.
The undersecretary, Elsa Murano, probably thinking of how much she enjoys a fine cut of tainted beef, told the subcommittee that such a regulation may make meat packers less cooperative. I think it was pretty damn uncooperative for them to peddle trichinosis in the first place, but I guess Elsa Murano probably knows how testy the donors at the American Meat Institute Political Action Committee can get when you regulate them. They may not match their $15,000 contribution to the Republican House-Senate Dinner Committee. Or the $14,000 they contributed to the President's Dinner Committee. Or the $10,000 donation made to Bush Cheney 2000. Or the $7,000 to Saxby Chambliss' execrable senate campaign. Or the $7,500 to the National Republican Congressional and Senatorial Committees.
The geniuses at the Agriculture Department, like the rest of this administration, work so hard to twist and rend reality in order to serve their corporate masters that at times, it's disgusting and frightening. I mean, musn't these people just go home and cry because they feel like every single thing they do is about deception and untruth?
Take an example. The Ag department's undersecretary for food safety told a House subcommittee yesterday that the White House would oppose a measure requiring meat companies to reveal to consumers which grocery stores had received tainted meat.
Wait a second, you might be thinking. Shouldn't the government do whatever it takes to let people know when they've bought them some beef that will keep them in the bathroom for 36 hours? Doesn't it make perfect sense that there should be a law that makes it illegal for meat packers to withhold information which could keep people from serving their family pork that will have them converting one room in their home into a vomitorium?
In fact, there is no such law requiring tainted meat sellers from releasing their list of tainted meat buyers. If you buy it, screw you, is the attitude. And apparently, the White House's absolute devotion to protecting any and all industries from regulation even supersedes their commitment to keeping Americans from dying of dehydration from an acute 48 hour period of diarrhea.
The undersecretary, Elsa Murano, probably thinking of how much she enjoys a fine cut of tainted beef, told the subcommittee that such a regulation may make meat packers less cooperative. I think it was pretty damn uncooperative for them to peddle trichinosis in the first place, but I guess Elsa Murano probably knows how testy the donors at the American Meat Institute Political Action Committee can get when you regulate them. They may not match their $15,000 contribution to the Republican House-Senate Dinner Committee. Or the $14,000 they contributed to the President's Dinner Committee. Or the $10,000 donation made to Bush Cheney 2000. Or the $7,000 to Saxby Chambliss' execrable senate campaign. Or the $7,500 to the National Republican Congressional and Senatorial Committees.
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