PORK: New Inspection System Could Allow *Feces, Sex Organs, Toenails, Unwanted Hair Into Pork*

[appalachiablue]

- NBC News, "Inspectors warn unsafe pork could make its way to consumers under Trump rule change." Dec. 16, 2019. The new system will speed up the processing lines and reduce the number of inspectors. USDA Rules On Pork Inspection To Change For The First Time In 50 Years.

ALBERT LEA, Minnesota — America's food inspectors are warning that "unsafe" pork is likely making it to consumers under a change in rules for meat inspection. That change is now set to roll out nationwide to plants that process more than 90 percent of the pork Americans eat.

"The consumer's being duped," Food Safety and Inspection Service inspector Jill Mauer told NBC News. "They believe that it actually is getting federally inspected when there's no one there to even watch or do anything about anything." "It's so hard to go to work without feeling physically sick watching this just happen, unfolding in front of you," inspector Anthony Vallone said. "Especially since you took the oath to protect the American people."

Mauer and Vallone have both filed whistleblower disclosure forms with the Office of Special Counsel about their concerns, but this is the first time they’ve spoken publicly. NBC News has spoken to five inspectors in person, over the phone and via email about the pilot program, which eligible pork plants will soon be able to adopt under a change in U.S. Department of Agriculture rules known as the New Swine Inspection System...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/inspectors-warn-unsafe-pork-could-make-its-way-consumers-under-n1097676
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-Daily Kos, 'New Trump Rule Allows Feces, Sex Organs, Toenails, Unwanted Hair Into Pork,' Daily Kos, Dec. 18, 2019.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/18/1906410/-New-Trump-rule-allows-feces-sex-organs-toenails-unwanted-hair-into-pork-products-NBC-news

- *PORK CHOP ON A STICK*

[Quemado]

1. I'm glad I went vegan.

A lot of food worries go out the window when you go vegan.

[Sea Glass]

5. Me too.

Haven't had red meat for decades, then went back to being full vegetarian a few years ago, and recently turned vegan. It brought me a lot of peace of mind.

Bonus benefit of begin vegan: It eliminates a lot of snacking. You really have to think before you snack. I don't have a constant internal monologue going about whether or not I should eat that cookie or that bag of Cheetohs ... I just don't. And I'm fine with it.

[alwaysinasnit]

2. I have just had my last piece of ham.

[Sea Glass]

6. That's great!

And if you have any compassion for pigs (which are just as smart and loving as our cats and dogs) then you will feel much better about not supporting their confinement and torture in factory farms.

[alwaysinasnit]

11. +1

[2naSalit]

3. Glad I stopped eating store bought meat

a long time ago.

[MontanaMama]

4. Boy howdy.

Me too. Elk, deer, antelope...which we process. We usually buy a locally raised pig from a 4H kiddo at the fair.

[2naSalit]

13. I have plenty of friends who hunt

and I avail myself of their good graces when they offer to share. I know a couple farmers who raise their animals organically and I will buy from them. I'm not real big on eating meat but when I do, I'm super picky.

[lame54]

7. The other shite meat

[LanternWaste]

8. Be great to see a big-budget production of The Jungle hit the screens.

But I doubt it will happen anytime soon... the potted, processed and canned outrage from the meat industry would go into overdrive to see it not happen.

If we thought the Texas beef companies did a number on Oprah Winfrey, we ain't seen nothing yet.

[appalachiablue]

9. Good idea. "Fast Food Nation" (2001) was one of the best consumer

books I've read. It covered the lack of ethics, anti labor issues and the filthy, dangerous practices in factories and restaurants for some of our major fast food businesses from soup to nuts. I was a very light meat eater before reading it, now I eat none. ~ The movie is good too.

- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is a 2001 book written by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry.

First serialized by Rolling Stone in 1999, the book has drawn comparisons to Upton Sinclair's 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle. The book was adapted into a 2006 film of the same name, directed by Richard Linklater...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Food_Nation

[appalachiablue]

16. "The Jungle" Upton Sinclair's 1907 book about horrors

of the US meatpacking industry, workers issues and oversight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

[Tanuki]

10. Kicking for visibility. Eom

[appalachiablue]

12. KICK & Oink, Oink!!

[appalachiablue]

14. oink!

[sakabatou]

15. Guess that means I'll keep Kosher

[Maru Kitteh]

17. It's (another) great day to be a f'n vegetarian!

[Captain Zero]

18. Lets all send MF45 a sack full of McRibs

Eat 'em up Impeachment Pig !

[BSdetect]

19. Go vegan folks. Watch Game Changers.

[TheBlackAdder]

20. Gotta lower our standards to match China, since they are buying the pork facilities.