Under the proposed new inspection system, the responsibility for identifying diseased and contaminated pork would be shared with plant employees, whose training would be at the discretion of plant owners. There would be no limits on slaughter-line speeds.The new pork inspection system would accelerate the federal government's move toward delegating inspections to the livestock industry.
"Look at the FAA. It took a year or so before the crashes happened," Basu said."This could pass and everything could be OK for a while, until some disease is missed and we have an outbreak all over the country. It would be an economic disaster that would be very hard to recover from." In the past, officials in the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service have defended their efforts to transfer more of its oversight control to the pork industry. They said federal inspectors will spend less time assessing the quality of the pork, which will give them more time to look for disease and contamination.
However, USDA officials confirmed they have no plans under the new system to test for salmonella -- for which USDA once tested. The agency will rely heavily on pathogen testing by plant owners, but those results will not have to be publicly disclosed.
Although there have been huge advances in food safety in meatpacking plants, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 500,000 people become ill and 82 die each year from consuming pathogen-laced pork products. Hog plants produce about 11 million tons of pork products annually, with 75% eaten in the United States, according to industry statistics.Advertisement
The only way to be completely safe from being sick by pork is to stop eating it. There are many awesome plant based replacements. These animals suffer so much just to put unnecessary food on your plates.
Is now the time to rethink eating pork? I haven’t eaten pork in years!
My main reservation to buying meat is this kinda shit
From my experience in the food production industry it seemed to me like the in house inspectors were much more effective than the government workers. I wouldn’t be too alarmed.
Bad Idea Jeans
frasermatthew I won't be eating pork.
WilliamdeVry1 What the actual F^€k?!?
Now bacon could REALLY kill you
This is reminiscent of when the prior administration let the bank regulate themselves after the financial crisis
ReignOfApril Um, what?
goldietaylor Weird flex but ok?
So canada, listen up! These inspections will not pass our stringent standards!
Never eat this disgusting animal
I think I remember how this story ends. thejungle
That didn’t seem to work out so well for the aerospace industry.
Excellent. Keep cutting regulations. I would much rather have a highly trained QA/QC employee with a vested interest in their job than a low IQ Fed Worker who hates their job and thinks we owe them something.
What next? The Cookie Monster guarding the cookie jar? The horror!
ReignOfApril That moment when I’m thanking the heavens that I’m vegan. Be careful out there carnivore brothers & sisters!
OnlyThePoets Y’all bout to be eating cow anus burgers 🍔 🐄
Good move.
Not good
SilverSerenite Americans now need to stop eating pork!
Pro: inspections up; Con: if plant paid, its doubtful theyll speak up. No one wants to lose their job. Key is to make them paid by govt. otherwise, sickness could break out, govt blamed, lawsuits then our taxes go up, so ultimately feds didnt save $ or lives.. US_FDA nytimes
Luckily I don’t eat pork (by choice) I guess I’m going to have to start going vegetarian or vegan. Maybe I should just grow my own food so I don’t have to worry about getting sick too.
Less unnecessary government employees is a positive change in Washington.
What could go wrong?
That leaves you with a fuzzy feeling.
Another crash.
goldietaylor What's the controversy? It's work so well for the FAA.
No more eating pork for us.
Then the responsibility becomes the consumer's. We can just not buy it.
Oh my God!
trump is stupid.
Lockjaw for one and all!
This worked really well 100 years ago in Chicago’s Packing Town. Read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
goldietaylor Did they learn NOTHING from the Boeing debacle
What the heck is wrong with this administration? smh
Why have any at all then?
goldietaylor I’ve been saying for a long time that, as humans, we need to build up our immunity to trichinosis. I’m sure this will help.
Here comes the E coli?
I really didn't need much reason to give up pork, but this is plenty. NoMorePork
And when the recalls come in? When folx without insurance get sick and die from bad pork? Who will we blame? I will blame Trump and the Republicans. There is a reason we have independent inspectors.
Yeeeeeah, I may actually stop eating pork of it goes through. It’ll be tough because I 💕LOVE💕 Bacon!
GoVegan CrueltyFree Gross AnimalsDeserveBetter NoPain
ReignOfApril I guess it’s time to start eating kosher
I wonder if the pork industry will sue the Trump Administration if sales tank. Similar what the beef producers did to Oprah.
I love pork, but may stop eating it now
This is why I try to eat as Kosher as possible.
Experience of Boeing 737 Max await us here if this happens. God help us!!!!
SenFeinstein he will kill us all
That’s why I like Teddy Roosevelt better than Trump!
WilliamdeVry1 We're screwed
Why!?
PeopleDied2Vote Clinton did that and it was a disaster.
I’ll miss that bacon on my burger, the sausage on my pizza and in my meatballs, queso fundido, etc., the ham sandwiches. Oh well.
Inspector Porky - à votre service:
The next Pres is going to have to spend the first year fixing thing that orange buffoon is ruining...
Follow up article writes itself. Trump Policy Guts Food Safety Protections. Millions Across U.S. Switch to Vegetarian Diet To Avoid Food Borne Illness. Related Melamine Found In U.S. Milk Powder...
BGSIBMOR Welp guess turning to Islam won’t be such a bad idea after all
Now isn’t that a peachy idea. Kinda like turning plane inspections over to Boeing. That worked out well. And letting banks regulate themselves. That was cool.
Yep... This is a good idea. Next we can let toddlers babysit themselves, prisoners guard the prisons, inmates run the asylum. What could go wrong? 🤔 🙄
Republicans are incapable of governing responsibly. It always ends up being a pay for play situation where Republicans sell lower governance a d oversight to companies and lobbying orgs. The results r poisonings, airplane deaths and financial collapses. GOP CANNOT govern.
Wow! And the prisoners will run the prisons,drug addicts run the fda,no accountability, why not? What a jerk
WCGW?
He's also going to allow the pork industry to inspect Boeing's planes.
Oh well, I guess it's time I stop eating pork. Nothing like the fox running the henhouse to Instill confidence.
I worked in a packing plant for about a week...wouldn't want the people I worked for inspecting my trash.
Trump is really adept at hiring wolves to watch the hen houses in this country. Hopefully, that will soon be coming to an end.
What could go wrong? 🤦🏼♂️
Stop them!
Wow I just became vegan keelyoboyd
WTF?
Yuck
Everyone be careful with your pork consumption.
Den Bock zum Gärtner machen! Das wäre wie wenn JuliaKloeckner die Bayer zum Bienenschutzbeauftragten ernennt.
You can fix the issue. GoVegan
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Looks like pork is off the menu, boys. If sales tank, maybe they’ll turn that around?
Is that safe? That doesn’t sound safe.
That's a good reason 2 stop eating Pork, it's unsafe, if it isn't checked properly! Trump is such an idiot!
What could possibly go wrong?
So if you let a serial killer watch your kids instead of a baby sitter I guess it'll be cheaper considering the serial killer would most likely do it for free.
What could go wrong? 🙄
🤔🙄😟
Another reason to give up eating pork.
Well, we saw what happened when the FAA allowed Boeing to have oversight on their own planes.
Don't fuhget the lipstick. ? SarahPalinUSA TheMuppetsGoTo... ? The Wiz? 😂🎼👍🏻✨🤔💙🎼🇺🇸
Oh boy. Been wanting to stop eating pork anyway. Good time to start.
Yummie....
Get ready for foodpoisoning 🍖☠️! 🙏 realDonaldTrump WhiteHouse!
Lord end this nightmare. Why is it that every single Trump policy is moronic! TheJungleUptonSinclair
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