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...USDA??s chief ill is its confused mandate: both to promote American agriculture and to regulate it. The agency has done the promotion job only too well: The average American now consumes around 40 pounds of high fructose corn syrup and 227 pounds of meat, fish, and poultry annually—three times the global average...
...change this, Secretary-designate Vilsack? Your first step should be to appoint impartial officials who will challenge the USDA??s culture of complicity. The current Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Charles F. Conner, is the former president of the Corn Refiners Association, and the agency’s Chief of Staff is the former chief lobbyist for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. As long as agency jobs serve as sabbaticals for industry lobbyists, the USDA will halt reforms...
...USDA requirements and rely on those inspections to ensure the quality, safety, and humane methods of slaughter for our meats,” Martin wrote. “All our beef products, for example, are ‘choice,’” the USDA??s designation for high-quality but relatively un-marbled beef...
...Moreover, the USDA??s decision to include meat dating back to February 2006 in the recall is a recognition that the cruel practices existed for two years under an inspector’s nose. As Paul Shapiro, Senior Director of the Humane Society’s Factory Farming Campaign, told me, “The USDA inspector was there, this cruelty was overt, it was out in the open—why they didn’t catch it or stop it is mind-boggling...
...this an isolated incident: A 2006 report from the USDA??s own Inspector General found widespread abuse. Randomly inspecting 12 slaughterhouses, the report identified 29 cases of downers slaughtered as inspectors looked...