An aerial view of the JBS USA pork processing factory in Beardstown, Ill. By Kimberly Kindy Kimberly Kindy National investigative reporter Email Bio April 3 at 6:35 AM The Trump administration plans to shift much of the power and responsibility for food safety inspections in hog plants to the pork industry as early as May, cutting the number of federal inspectors by about 40 percent and replacing them with plant employees.
These proposals, part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to reduce regulations, come as the federal government is under fire for delegating some of its aircraft safety oversight responsibilities to Boeing, which developed the 737 Max jets involved in two fatal crashes over the past six months.
USDA officials declined interview requests, saying they would not speak publicly about the new regulations until they are final. “These [inspection] systems have evolved since the ’80s, and they will continue to do so,” he said. “We cannot do things the same ways we’ve always done them.” The proposed hog slaughter rule is based on a study that began 20 years ago, ultimately including five large plants. Efforts to expand the program have sputtered under past administrations, but Trump administration officials have told industry trade groups that they expect the proposed regulations to soon become final. They say 40 of the 612 hog plants not already using the new system will begin using the program.
A separate September 2013 Government Accountability Office report determined that the five-plant trial program was too small to “provide reasonable assurance that any conclusions can apply more broadly to the universe of 608 hog plants in the United States.”
I read this so fast I thought it said “Porn Industry soon will have more power over meat inspections”. Which honestly has higher standards of inspection over the porkindustry.
HumanistReport Would you consider covering the Trump Admin’s deregulation of factory farmed pigs? This creates more animal suffering, worsens already unsafe conditions for workers, risks consumer safety, & could cause more biowaste dumpings destroying communities/waterways.
kylekulinski Would you consider covering the Trump Admin’s deregulation of factory farmed pigs? This creates more animal suffering, worsens already unsafe conditions for workers, risks consumer safety, & could cause more biowaste dumpings destroying communities/waterways.
ThomTillis SenatorBurr RepHolding Please oppose this! This will cause great harm to one of our greatest products! Done with pork if this goes through.
The bad decisions keep coming
Pet pigs not pork pie . And clean up the goddam mess.
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Poor Animals you would think in this day and age we would move away from this Barbaric abuse of Animals. Create super foods but the Government and companies find it easier to slaughter Animals! It's not ok, God gave us a paradise and we turn it into hell very shameful!!!
Here comes more rotten meat! Can’t trust in them anymore.
Hmm. I'll have to make sure I only buy Canadian pork now.
Perhaps it would be better if Boeing inspected hog and beef processing and the animal inspectors focused on Boeing products.
All pork recipes will need to be edited to add, 'cook to well done'.
Pity the pigs.
Not good
Good thing I don’t eat mammals.
'The FOX is eminently qualified to watch the hen house, 'cuz he fu*king loves chicken...' Idiocy IdiocracyIsReal WorstPresidentEver NoSelfPolicing
Just what we need, another industry with less oversight and more freedom to pursue profit at any costs to us. What’s the pork equivalent of the MAX-8?
What could go wrong?!
Another reason I don't eat pork anymore.
One of (not the only) reasons I decided to not eat beef or pork was mad cow disease (and others). Like Boeing in the airline industry, corporations will NOT regulate out of self interest. They will deny and cover up until they have no choice. At that point, too late.
Of course. Because if history teaches us anything, it's that history should be ignored and we should only follow the biggest cash flow. CorruptGOP EconomicMarketLies KevinMKruse planetmoney Freakonomics
Helllllllo Trichinosis!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad to be back?
BOYCOTTMEAT
In a related development, Fox will now be watching over the hen house.
What could go wrong?
On par for this group of thugs . Unbelievable, these pukes
Eeeeew
Yet another example of the Trump and his Trumpbot's bad government.... letting the fox watch the hen house - you know it's going to turn out badly for the chickens
Please go to the American Cancer Society page and read the prevention section of colon and rectal cancer. It is clearly written the beef, pork and lamb cause this type of cancer. We found out too late.
GoVegan Stop the Cruelty
Oh my God. Jodi Ernst is at it again.
Corporations own our politicians and thos country.
Yes, because people policing themselves always works out so well. These poor animals... it’s brutal for them as it is, and now it will get even worse. vegetarian
Worked great for the Airlines.
It's about time! I'll never forget the millions of Americans taking to the streets demanding that the pork industry have more say in their own inspections. I'm sorry...I meant demanding action on guns. But, yeah...pork.
What could possibly go wrong? 🙄
Bacon is shit, enjoy your myocardial infarction.
I mean, what could go wrong?
Good.
Bacon 🥓.
'A severe case in which a tapeworm infected an 18-year-old boy’s brain, eventually leading to his death. The infection, called cysticercosis, is caused by the larva of a parasite called Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, which create cysts in various parts of the body and brain.'
The picture of the pig makes me consider vegetarianism. Look at that poor guy.
Couldn't you have used another photo...
Mmmmmm.....bacon
Note to self: during pendency of Trump Administration, see if anybody is making those space-age 'meals in a pill' yet.
We can not eat, it is haram...
Pork industry soon will dead..
Coincides with my power to not trust that at all and not buy pork.
Why would the pork industry have the power over meat inspections. Isn't that letting the fox rule the hinn house?
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STOP GIVING LOBBIES THE RIGHT TO SELF INSPECT!!!
Wow bet is will be as successful as Boeing and the faa
You can thank yourselves WAPO for supporting representatives and presidents who want to gut all consumer protections.
ffs