Foreign Policy in Focus
April 18, 2008
Food Safety on the Butcher's Block
by Christine Ahn and GRAIN
On April 11, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a re****t that
found that of the national efforts to improve U.S. food safety, none of
the
targets were reached in 2007. According to the CDC, 76 million Americans
one in four come down with food poisoning every year. Among the most
common is E. coli, a byproduct of the system of industrialized animal
agribusiness. Americans have a common perception that the problem stems
from
food coming from outside the country from China, say, or Mexico.
Instead,
it's our food that's the problem.
Instead of cleaning up its own act, the American meat industry has ****fted
responsibility to the consumer not just in the United States, but also
in
countries where U.S. meat is ex****ted. The United States is using
bilateral
trade agreements to arm-twist weaker countries into accepting its food
safety standards as a tool to expand the market control of U.S.
cor****ations. South Korea is the latest victim.
Full article at:
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5158
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