USDA privatizing meat inspections with program that allowed ‘chunks’ of feces

[Bill USA]

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is planning to roll out a meat inspection program nationwide that will allow pork plants to use their own inspectors, but it has a history of producing contaminated meat at American and foreign plants.

The Washington Post reported on Monday that documents and interviews showed that a plan to allow hog plants to replace federal USDA inspectors with their own private employees had produced “serious lapses that included failing to remove fecal matter from meat” in three of the five plants that had participated in a pilot program for more than a decade.
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more at: http://www.democraticunderground.com/112753728

I thought that this was important enough to crosspost to. (I suspect many people don't go to E/E except infrequently)

[robinlynne]

1. That would make me go vegetarian.

[Doctor_J]

2. See, the "Free Market" will take care of this.

If the private inspectors are not up to the job, and a few thousand peasants die agonizing deaths due to their negligence, then the hog plants will take their business elsewhere, and the contractors responsible for the thousands of deaths will be out of business!

Welcome to a nation without government