Trump floats rolling back food safety regulations - OMG -

[womanofthehills]

Donald Trump floated rolling back food safety regulations if he wins the White House in November.

In a fact sheet posted online Thursday, the campaign highlighted a number of "specific regulations to be eliminated" under the GOP nominee's economic plan, including what they called the "FDA Food Police."

“The FDA Food Police, which dictate how the federal government expects farmers to produce fruits and vegetables and even dictates the nutritional content of dog food,” it read.

“The rules govern the soil farmers use, farm and food production hygiene, food packaging, food temperatures and even what animals may roam which fields and when,” the statement continued. "It also greatly increased inspections of food 'facilities,' and levies new taxes to pay for this inspection overkill."

http://thehill.com/regulation/healthcare/296152-trump-says-he-would-eliminate-food-safety-regulations

[vlyons]

1. What? You don't like wood ash in your processed meats and breads?

Or rat turds in you cereal? Or salmonella in your eggs? Or e-coli in your veggies and farm fish?

What's wrong with you?

[JI7]

2. YUK

[procon]

3. Some people say that E-coli is totally organic.

What could go wrong?

[Warren DeMontague]

4. we're gonna have the best shit in our lunch meats

you're not gonna believe the shit you'll find in your lunch meat, it's amazing

[womanofthehills]

5. and no strawberries in our strawberry jam

From days of old

Jars labeled strawberry jam often contained no strawberries, only glucose, red food coloring, grass seed, and gelatin. Jars of honey were sometimes diluted with glucose. Rotten eggs were deodorized, rancid butter was revived. “Soothing syrups” for babies were often laced with morphine. “Olive oil” was sometimes made with cottonseed.

One of the worst offenders was ketchup manufacturers. As Andrew Smith lays out in his surprisingly detailed history The Tomato in America, the tomato growing season lasted only from mid-August to mid-October, too short of a time period for ketchup manufacturers to make a year’s supply of their product. So they would try to increase their supply of tomatoes by concentrating tomato pulp and storing it for use in the off-season. Due to unsanitary storage practices, however, the pulp often became a breeding ground for mold, yeast, spores, and bacteria.

Some producers would try to fight such contamination by doctoring their ketchup with chemicals such as “boric acid, formalin, salicylic acid, and benzonic acid.” Others would simply sell a product that was “filthy, decomposed and putrid,” according to Smith.

This is what the free market offered consumers in the absence of regulation.

https://thinkprogress.org/heinz-ketchup-proves-that-donald-trump-is-out-of-his-mind-95c8a838a0d0#.a04382xv4

[Ilsa]

6. Somebody, please serve him some undercooked KFC. nt

[TeamPooka]

7. Republicans want us to die. nt