I TOLD YOU SO!
My friend Queenie sent me this news link called,
U.S. Rolls Out New Food Safety Rules Amid Egg Recall
And as we know, more Federal regulations is always the answer and fixes everything.
Right?
Do you know what this will do to the local guy selling eggs? He will go out of business. It will soon, within my lifetime, be against the law just as it is to sell raw milk. You mark my word.
I mean have you seen the Gulf lately. My blogging friend Melissa from Sweet Homestead Alabama, saw the Gulf just a few weeks ago when the Feds said it was safe to swim in it. You can read her account of just how unclean it was.
So, what’s the answer? It’s NOT more government regulations.
If the Feds had been doing their job, they would of already shut this egg processor DOWN!
According to the AP, this processor has had many many many violations!
“Both farms are linked to businessman Austin “Jack” DeCoster, who has been cited for numerous health, safety and employment violations over the years. DeCoster owns Wright County Egg, the original farm that recalled 380 million eggs Aug. 13 after they were linked to more than 1,000 reported cases of salmonella poisoning.”
It’s reported that, “DeCoster is no stranger to controversy in his food and farm operations:” READY FOR THIS……THIS HOW MUCH FEDERAL REGULATIONS DID TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.
• In 1997, DeCoster Egg Farms agreed to pay $2 million in fines to settle citations brought in 1996 for health and safety violations at DeCoster’s farm in Turner, Maine. Then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich said conditions were “as dangerous and oppressive as any sweatshop.” He cited unguarded machinery, electrical hazards, exposure to harmful bacteria and other unsanitary conditions.
• In 2000, Iowa designated DeCoster a “habitual violator” of environmental regulations for problems that included hog manure runoff into waterways. The label made him subject to increased penalties and prohibited him from building new farms.
• In 2002, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a more than $1.5 million settlement of an employment discrimination lawsuit against DeCoster Farms on behalf of Mexican women who reported they were subjected to sexual harassment, including rape, abuse and retaliation by some supervisory workers at DeCoster’s Wright
• In 2007, 51 workers were arrested during an immigration raid at six DeCoster egg farms. The farm had been the subject of at least three previous raids.
• In June 2010, Maine Contract Farming — the successor company to DeCoster Egg Farms — agreed in state court to pay $25,000 in penalties and to make a one-time payment of $100,000 to the Maine Department of Agriculture over animal cruelty allegations that were spurred by a hidden-camera investigation by an animal welfare organization.
I’m gonna wig out on you big time because frankly I’m fed up and I’ve had enough. More government is not the answer to anything….it sure hasn’t given us safe food.
VOTE! VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE. VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS. KICK THOSE BUMBS OUT OF WASHINGTON.
IF YOU DON’T GET OFF YOUR BUTT THIS FALL AND GET OUT TO VOTE IN THE PRIMARIES IN YOUR STATE AND FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION, THEN I THINK YOU SHOULD BE PUT IN THE STOCKS SO WE CAN THROW ROTTEN EGGS AT YOU. Of course after the Feds deem them to be safe.
And as I said yesterday, KNOW YOUR FARMER & KNOW WHERE YOUR FOOD COMES FROM!
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Hi Renee! I certainly don’t disagree with you. I think we need to kick them all out. This isn’t a party issue. We’ve been sold out and their pockets are lined by special interest grps. But there are so many who never bother to vote. It’s a crying shame. Patriots have died to keep us free and people take it for granted. It’s just wrong.
I truly think the answer is God. We pray every day for an awakening in America. A return to the values and principles that made this nation great. We have fallen. Fallen very far.
Hi Diane
I live in Iowa where all this has been going on for years one man and all his problems with eggs, pork, etc. It is sad….frustrating….terrible. Yet, if we need to kick the present bums out of Washington…I would need to ask you which ones? This has gone on for generations with the republicans and democrats holding the highest job in the nation. We need to start caring about the people and not the party…..and unfortunately the division between the parties has only escalated to a terrible level in my eyes. It only keeps what the people need silent.
I do not understand how people like Decoster are allowed to keep doing what they do…our regulations are inadequate whether it applies to food, drugs, or chemicals….. and have for many many years!! I wonder what the answer is?
It’s kinda like Jaws….enter at your own risk! Eat at your own risk. I tried to stash a little seafood (wild scallops & wild shrimp) just as the spill began, I knew prices would rise and the risk of clean seafood would be risky. I’m not willing to play Russian Roulette!
I do have one thing to add here:
Fishing waters have been reopened in the Gulf recently. If you plan to eat seafood within the foreseeable future, you’d better KNOW WHERE IT COMES FROM.
AMEN! What more is there to say?