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kestrel91316

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4. USDA FSIS provides inspectors for US packing plants/slaughterhouses and they are still up and

Reply to YoungDemCA (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 05:40 PM

Oct 2013

"running", hthough the RWers in Congress and inside USDA gutted their ability to do their jobs years ago.

So no one could have forseen THIS.

And even USDA FSIS will go away if we go into default.

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Salmonella tied to Foster Farms chicken hospitalizes dozens, may be drug-resistant [View all] n2doc Oct 2013 OP

this is one prime example why there should be government control Stargazer99 Oct 2013 #1

It's not like the FDA or CDC are essential government services YoungDemCA Oct 2013 #2

USDA FSIS provides inspectors for US packing plants/slaughterhouses and they are still up and kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #4

Oh goody. That is by far the leading brand of chicken out here. KamaAina Oct 2013 #3

Big supplier in food service too Auggie Oct 2013 #5

Tyson and Sanderson Farms are the big ones down here dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #7

It can't be drug resistant. AtheistCrusader Oct 2013 #6

Well, corporations are people, my friends! Left Coast2020 Oct 2013 #8

perhaps the answer is to raise the animals in cleaner conditions so they don't need AB to survive. Sunlei Oct 2013 #9

It can come from perfectly organic free range stuff too. AtheistCrusader Oct 2013 #10

yes but poultry are raised in the most filthy conditions and that adds to the contamination issue. Sunlei Oct 2013 #11

This is what happens when you have huge national food producers. 18 states? No local chickens? PSPS Oct 2013 #12

. blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #13