http:\/\/www.foodnavigator-usa.com\/Regulation\/US-review-gleans-ideas-from-European-food-safety-reforms<\/a><\/p>\nMy own jaded view is that this becomes one more weapon to beat up on the little guy.<\/p>\n
If Europeans experience fewer food-related illnesses, I suspect it’s not because of bureaucratic efficiency.\u00a0 Everything there, from farms to processing, operates on a much smaller scale.\u00a0 It’s the huge packing houses and the factory farms in the United States that cause our problems.<\/p>\n
And a corrupt system that keeps us looking the “other” way.<\/p>\n
Further,\u00a0 one-size agricultural rules are too often written in the bowels of Big Ag and Big Chemical and regurgitated by bureaucrats indiscriminately.\u00a0 One thing the Europeans have done, so far, is hold off Monsanto’s Genetically Modified seeds.<\/p>\n
I’ve come to believe our only protection—as a world—is to think smaller and less “coordinated”.\u00a0 At least we’ll kill fewer people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
….one of our readers thinks so, though he asks to remain anonymous because he works for you-know-who.\u00a0 \u00a0 Here’s the link: http:\/\/www.foodnavigator-usa.com\/Regulation\/US-review-gleans-ideas-from-European-food-safety-reforms My own jaded view is that this becomes one more weapon to beat up on the little guy. If Europeans experience fewer food-related illnesses, I suspect it’s not because of bureaucratic efficiency.\u00a0 Everything there, from farms to processing, operates on a much smaller scale.\u00a0 It’s the huge packing houses and the factory farms in the United States that cause our problems. And a corrupt system that keeps us looking the “other” way. Further,\u00a0 one-size agricultural rules are too often written in the bowels of Big Ag and Big Chemical and regurgitated by bureaucrats indiscriminately.\u00a0 One thing the Europeans have done, so far, is hold off Monsanto’s Genetically Modified seeds. I’ve come to believe our only protection—as a world—is to think smaller and less “coordinated”.\u00a0 At least we’ll kill fewer people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,46,27,9,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-gmo","category-government","category-health","category-monsanto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}