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They already have pizza everyday..the express lunch line. When was the last time you were in a school cafeteria ?
Knock off the snark! Is the express line "competitive food" or the SLP food? Our district does prepare pizza sometimes, but I think you can get my drift, if you weren't out to be snarky.
If they would not raise beef under HORRIFIC conditions that require MASSIVE amounts of antibiotics to keep the cattle alive until slaughter, we would not be having these issues. The FDA should be requiring beef producers to raise healthy cattle instead of sick, pus-filled ones that require medical treatment.
Anyone who eats this kind of horrible, diseased meat is a fool. Yes it costs more to buy grass-fed locally raised beef, but it's OUR health that we are talking about.
Until we demand a change in the methods that factory farms use, this is not going to change. Even if we have 10,000 FDA inspectors. Which is a joke in itself because the FDA is more concerned with prosecuting family farms than inspecting the mega giant meat producing companies that supply our food.
Knock off the snark! Is the express line "competitive food" or the SLP food? Our district does prepare pizza sometimes, but I think you can get my drift, if you weren't out to be snarky.
Snarky ?? I wasn't being short tempered at all.
I certainly hit a sore point with you though.
You said "pizza and twinkies" like everyone is an idiot when it comes to a program and only the government knows best ?
If they would not raise beef under HORRIFIC conditions that require MASSIVE amounts of antibiotics to keep the cattle alive until slaughter, we would not be having these issues. The FDA should be requiring beef producers to raise healthy cattle instead of sick, pus-filled ones that require medical treatment.
Anyone who eats this kind of horrible, diseased meat is a fool. Yes it costs more to buy grass-fed locally raised beef, but it's OUR health that we are talking about.
Until we demand a change in the methods that factory farms use, this is not going to change. Even if we have 10,000 FDA inspectors. Which is a joke in itself because the FDA is more concerned with prosecuting family farms than inspecting the mega giant meat producing companies that supply our food.
Wake up people. Jesus.
20yrsinBranson
You cannot demand change if you don't know what goes on.
All people see is the pretty pink cuts of meat in the supermarket.
That's where it begins and ends with them.
Snarky ?? I wasn't being short tempered at all.
I certainly hit a sore point with you though.
You said "pizza and twinkies" like everyone is an idiot when it comes to a program and only the government knows best ?
Please do not put words in my mouth. You'd have to be living under a rock not to be aware of the childhood obesity problem. I have no problem with a standard lunch, e.g. so much fruit, protein, bread, fat, etc.
Not in all cases. And what is different about nutrition in 'the several states'? In other words, how is nutrition different in say, Pennsylvania and Colorado?
Oh, wait. Let's return to the days before the FDA when meat processor's sold putrid meat from long dead cows, there was more "maple syrup" sold than New England produced, rotten vegetables were the norm (the consumer just cut off the waste), people died regularly from food poisoning and nobody gave much of a damn because the motto was "let the customer beware."
You know...the FDA wasn't invented in a vacuum. It was created to address some very, very serious issues in our food supply, issues which were killing people every day because profit took priority over health and public safety.
Go re-read "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair and see if you REALLY want to do without an FDA again.
That was 100 years ago. Consumers have many more weapons today than then.
I seriously doubt that any company would stay in business very long at all if they sold putrid meat, etc.
Food companies compete for customers. Customers demand decent products, with or without the help of the government.
Since we do NOT have anything resembling "small government" the thread title is intentionally misleading and a huge FAIL!
Try this one: Big Government, so inefficient and wasteful of funds FDA fails to protect food supply!
Conversely, "FDA doesn't have enough money to protect everything like it's supposed to."
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