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Title: How To Really Kill Off Our Citizens Post by: Howey on June 17, 2011, 10:39:11 am Our resident Conspiracy Theorist, FooFa, has his own section (http://popculturedoneright.smfforfree.com/index.php/board,46.0.html) here to discuss conspiracy theories floating around out there, one of which is the so-called Master Plan developed by Henry Kissinger (I think) to kill of the world's population.
That stuff may be crazy, but THIS (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-republicans-vote-to-cut-funds-to-implement-food-safety-law/2011/06/16/AGMS82XH_story.html) is real. Deregulation of food safety standards (passed by Congress last December in a bipartisan vote) will kill far more Americans than any silly conspiracy theorist can imagine. Quote Arguing that the U.S. food supply is 99 percent safe, House Republicans cut millions of dollars Thursday from the Food and Drug Administration’s budget, denying the agency money to implement landmark food safety laws approved by the last Congress. Saying the cuts were needed to lower the national deficit, the House also reduced funding to the Agriculture Department’s food safety inspection service, which oversees meat, poultry and some egg products. And lawmakers chopped $832 million from an emergency feeding program for poor mothers, infants and children. Hunger groups said that change would deny emergency nutrition to about 325,000 mothers and children. No Democrats voted in favor of the agriculture appropriations bill, which passed by a vote of 217 to 203. Nineteen Republicans joined the Democrats in opposition. The White House opposed many of the cuts, saying they would force the USDA to furlough inspectors at meat and poultry processing plants and leave the FDA unable to meet the requirements of a food safety law passed in December. The legislation, which was the first major change to the nation’s food safety laws since 1938, calls for the FDA to significantly step up scrutiny of domestic and imported food and devise a system aimed at preventing the kind of contamination that sickens one in six Americans every year. The law, which received bipartisan support, followed years of cutbacks at the FDA and waves of food-borne illnesses linked to foods as varied as spinach, peanuts and cookie dough. Title: Re: How To Really Kill Off Our Citizens Post by: Howey on June 17, 2011, 10:56:20 am Included in the bill:
Quote Also surviving was a $30 million cut to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which Democrats said would make it harder for that agency to fight against commodity price increases through speculation. House Financial Services Committee ranking member Barney Frank (D-Mass.) argued unsuccessfully on Tuesday to restore this funding or even allow more funds. Title: Re: How To Really Kill Off Our Citizens Post by: ekg on June 17, 2011, 09:05:01 pm it's getting closer and closer to a time where I'm going to start growing,raising, and hunting my own food. |