The US Congress did not care since they have their own disposable 'food tasters'.
Posted on 07/08/2008 5:16:26 AM PDT by captjanaway
The most recent outbreak of salmonella poisoning of produce caused much alarm across the country and cost American tomato growers millions in lost revenue. As of this writing, over 900 salmonella cases have been diagnosed in 40 states.
While American farmers struggled as the CDC did their best to pin the tainted tomatoes on them, their crops rotted on docks and in warehouses as consumers refused to buy potentially contaminated goods. For those of us in Arkansas, it was a relief when our famous Bradley County pink tomatoes were cleared; harvesting had not begun when the outbreak occurred.
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every truck will have to be inspected for drugs.
and even so, some of the truck drivers will be
drug cartel members.
so, count on the mexican mafia extending itself further into the u.s.
Our local media here in Austin did the same. Instead of listing which states/countries were suspect, they only told of the ones who were declared safe.
I had some anti-capitalist, anti-American punks try and tell me Mexico's quality assurances were better than the US’s. Can't wait to rub this in their faces.
The US Congress did not care since they have their own disposable 'food tasters'.
Carolyn
I have found it somewhat disingenuous that the government that took a very short time to locate and isolate a single cow in the US as the source of a brief “Mad Cow Disease” outbreak, has been unable to figure out the source of this latest outbreak of salmonella poisoning.
Given Bush’s pro-anything Mexico position, this article explains a lot about why the US hasn’t been able to isolate the latest salmonella outbreak. Bush doesn’t want to admit that his policies have endangered Americans and possibly cost some of them their lives.
Several presidents have been responsible for reducing the funding for the FDA which has been reflected in reducing the number of food inspectors. The recent outbreaks if illnesses and disease from improper food handling and filthy conditions in many processing facilities (including meat processors), explains a lot about how this policy has failed (but I’m not blaming Bush for this - his predecessors own that “honor”). Food safety is too critical to sustain budget cuts and implement random audits.
"And then I was yelling, "Swim, Mary Jo! Swim!'"
That said, if trucks from Mexico are handled like in the states, the drivers themselves have no way of knowing what is in their trucks.
Here, the driver hooks onto a load and the unit is locked and sealed. It is to the packing point of origin that stuff must be traced = sticky wicket when that is in another country? Wonder if they have a program in place that would deny any further shipments from a place found to ship either illegal or tainted cargo?
An aside: While we all jump up and down about such 'foreign' contamination of products we ingest, and/or worry about such products being part of bioterrorism to reach as many households as possible, we ignore - and have for years - such poisons included in, for one example, a product found in every home: toothpaste.
"these FDA warnings must be included: "Don't Swallow -- Use only a pea-sized amount for children under six," and "Children under 6 should be supervised while brushing with any toothpaste to prevent swallowing." The list of warnings now begins with, "Keep out of the reach of children under 6 years of age." and " "If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, seek professional help or contact a poison control center immediately."
And then they make, for children, flavors like bubble-gum...
The man-made fluoride used in toothpaste/water etc,, is a by-product of the aluminum industry. It is not the same as natural flouride.
The man-made product is what they give, for example, to high strung race horses when they need to be calmed down - like for transporting. It makes them more docile...less likely to kick up a fuss.
hmmmmmmmmmmm.
What's in YOUR water and toothpaste? Or is it not a matter to get fussed up about...
Instead of having to reduce all of our food to cinders prior to eating it, perhaps we should boil these inept politicians, along with the U.S. departments that were created to protect us, in oil until they are well done.
May I suggest crude oil?
Just wait until the NAFTA superhighway is in operation. They sure don’t intend to stop every truck, or every rail car for inspection. The goal is to move goods across the border as fast as possible.
The good of the American citizens is very much being put in a distant second, or even third place to the movement of goods, and hushing up any facts that undermine the pretense that Mexican food products are world class, and just as safe as any other.
‘pandering to Mexico’, or prepare yourself for the North American Union. Why in hell do these people suffer from one major malady - FILTH - like we suffer from one major malady - LETHARGIC STUPIDITY?
Mexico. Well who would have thought, right?
I have got to say I am just about 100% FED UP with hearing about mexico this and mexican that. I am not going to get sick and taxed and run off of jobs so some damn politican can chase a pipe dream of the "mexican vote."
I blame Bush for his silence while Florida growers were defamed by FDA implication. All this because of his “friends” in Mexico. This makes me wish Buchanan had been elected in 2000. I must now ask, when we voted for the lesser of two evils, did we realize the tiny magnitude of the difference?
Well-said....thank you.
And no one is sucking-up to latinos more than McCain.
John McCain has been going across the country having “PRIVATE” meetings with Hispanics (read "SECRET" meetings). John McCain’s favorite words at these meetings is Comprehensive Immigration Reform .......saying if he is gonna win the Presidential election he will need the support of the Latino community.
He likes to say: ” My state has been enriched by the Hispanic culture in Arizona. I bet some did not know that Spanish was spoken in Arizona before English” with loud cheers from the audience.
AZTLAN IS HERE Watch for an October Surprise---Juan holds a SIGNING CEREMONY IN TIJUANA TO GIVEBACK THE SW AS A SIGN OF HIS TOTAL ALLEGIANCE TO MEXICO.
Juan tells latinos: “I want to have some straight talk about our relationship with Mexico, our closest neighbor and dearest friend” and fighting drug cartels. “I was proud to work for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and if I am elected President I assure you that in 2009 I will ask Congress to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” (Picture latinos going wild)
“It is a Federal Responsibility” Juan says. ” We also need a temporary guest worker program.…We have no Federal Policy, we cannot allow this to happen, he said." He repeated: " I assure you that I will work for Comprehensive Immigration Reform."
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Tipster Edgar M. sends an English translation of an article from Diario Libre touting McCain’s promise to renew his shamnesty push for the “undocumented:”
New York - The Republican candidate for the White House, Senator John McCain, promised that if he wins, a day after he is sworn in as a new president of the United States, he will pressure Congress to enact a law immediately in favor of immigration reform.
The candidate that appears today eight points behind his Democrat rival Barack Obama, did the pronouncement in an interview that he granted to the Hispanic newspaper La Opinion in Los Angeles…
McCain said that it is completely false that [he] has abandoned his original commitment to fight for reform for the more than 12 million undocumented immigrants that reside in the United States and that includes the failed proposal of President Bush, to secure the borders first.
“This reform will be a priority in my administration because it is a convincing federal responsibility”, added the contender of the Republican Party. “We will undertake immigration reform and on the day after my inauguration, I will ask Congress to reconsider it, although I believe that first we have to secure our borders, set in motion a plan for guest workers that works and to focus on the issue of the undocumented in a humane and compassionate way.”
Everybody check your product labels-—I just found a bottle of mango juice came from Mexico. It is now in the garbage.
These taco-sucking types seem to delight in screwing Americans.
" Ole, amigos, let's vamoos-o for a horchata and a churros in the El Senate tacoteria....Viva Mexico."
“I had some anti-capitalist, anti-American punks try and tell me Mexico’s quality assurances were better than the US’s. Can’t wait to rub this in their faces.”
How can anyone be that ignorant? In Mexico you can fertilize with anything and use just about any chemical even those banned in the US. And they don’t have a clue what clean means.
They're not. Anyone who would make a comment like this is making a profit off this disaster.
All for Jorge's luv for Mexican nationals! A shame he doesn't love American citizens so much.
“How can anyone be that ignorant?”
One of them supposedly has a 4 yr. degree but, he works as a sandwich artist. Mummbled something about Teflon when I was leaving. LOL!
Yep, he and Barry are hard at it.
From your link...
Last month, McCain and Obama pledged to make overhauling the country's immigration a priority in separate appearances to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference. McCain assured that audience that he wouldn't pursue the enforcement-only approach sought by hard-line GOP conservatives, while Obama accused McCain of walking away from comprehensive immigration reform.
Obama was expected to make the same arguments again, though his remarks were to focus more broadly on the economy.
Both McCain and Obama support a temporary worker program and eventual path to citizenship for (30) millions of immigrants in the country illegally. But after a comprehensive Senate bill failed last summer amid coast-to-coast public outcry that split the GOP, McCain has added that the borders must be secure first before people will accept other reforms.
The little punk Juan is gonna amnesty one quarter of mexico before his train wreck is over and they will promptly vote `rat and that is going to be THE END.
What an ignorant bastard.
These people would just as soon murder us, as look at us.
A couple infamous examples:
The Mexican woman (supposedly an American) who actually hired thugs to brutally murder a teenaged boy for no other reason than he had broken up with her daughter.
An Ecudorean native (also an American)----forced out as a partner of a thriving business b/c he was caught stealing---returned and killed four members of the business family (also latinos). He then fled to Ecuador to escape justice. US police were forced to pay Ecuadoran police to help them (at the going police salary-----$1.00 an hour).
These people are infiltrating our govt everyday. Obama and McC will give them top federal jobs where they will deliberately undermine our national security, decimate our laws, and loot the US treasury.
The powers that be(namely the Council on Foreign Relations) want open borders and a single universal government. McQueeg and BHO are just the newest puppets in a long line of puppets who have been promised the riches and power.
Until we figure a way to counter these people, we are nothing more than pawns.
EXACTLY what they want----
Probably the most troubling aspect of the invasion----is the marginalization of Americans and the diminution and eradication of American culture---our freedoms AND our rule of law.
Pawns with 90 million firearms. The recent SC ruling probably gave them the dry heaves and rightly so. The way I see it, the liberals communists here in the US will continue to try to institute various "bans." Each time they do that there will be a flurry of lawsuits based on Heller, resulting in gridlock. And that just might be a good thing as all American Citizens should exercise their rights under the Second Amendment and BUY - BUY - BUY! The more sales their are the less the communist will have the will to attempt "mischief" with border laws, treaties and the like as it will do no good.
In the instance of an amnesty for the 30 million or more criminal illegal alien border and immigration lawbreakers their can be very practical uses for having such an inventory.
BLOGAAT
“The Mexican woman (supposedly an American)...”
“An Ecudorean native (also an American)...”
“These people are infiltrating our govt everyday.”
Clearly you are referring to all little brown people who originated from south of our border. You aren't even limiting it to illegal aliens. You're even including naturalized American citizens. They'd all rather kill us than look at us? They're all evil?
You're a racist, plain and simple, and you are dead wrong. There are an awful lot of very good and decent people who happen to be Hispanic. Most are pretty good people just like most white folks. The average person from south of our border is going to be a hard working Christian, a family oriented person who wishes no harm to anyone. Some of them are bad people, but plenty of white folks are bad too. Plenty deal in drugs. Plenty steal. Plenty commit violent crimes. Plenty suck off the government teat, and so on. Should we all be painted with the same broad brush that you paint the little brown Hispanic people with because some of our own are bad?
You want to give credence to the claim that conservatives are a bunch of racists and xenophobes? Keep talking like you did on this thread and you will achieve that goal. Maybe it would be better if you would just hide your racism a little bit though so you don't give us all a bad name.
Only in America could critics of a group called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, who've succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino group whose name is Spanish for "The Race."
Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who called themselves that? No matter.
The candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. Yet the group is a radical ethnic-nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty. Here are 15 things you should know about "The Race":
* It supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
* It demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal-alien students that aren't available to US citizens and legal immigrants.
* It vehemently opposes cooperative immigration-enforcement efforts between local, state and federal authorities.
* It opposes a secure fence on the southern border.
* It joined the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit to prevent the feds from entering immigration information into a key national crime database - and to prevent local police from accessing the data.
* It protested common-sense voter-ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
* It has opposed post-9/11 national-security measures at every turn.
* It opposed Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal cooperation.
* It joined other anti-assimilationists suing to prevent Proposition 227, California's bilingual-education reform, from becoming law. * Former "Race" President Raul Yzaguirre said: "US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." US English is the nation's oldest, largest citizens' group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in America.
"The Race" also advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for amnesty for illegal aliens while avoiding the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
* It gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan).
The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized MEChA as "a radical racist group . . . one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated US campuses since the 1960s, and which continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West."
* It's leading a smear campaign against immigration-enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable-news networks to keep immigration-enforcement proponents off the airwaves - in addition to pushing for "Fairness Doctrine" policies to shut up its foes. The New York Times reported that "Race" President Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."
* It sponsors militant ethnic-nationalist charter schools subsidized by tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). These include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed:
"We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. . . The White way, the American way, the neoliberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
* It has perfected the art of the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing to lower home-loan standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage-counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and partnering with banks that do business with illegals.
* It thrives on ethnic supremacy - and the elite's unwillingness to call it what it is.
As historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' - and that's precisely why we don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza.
It is an enemy of this country.
Now let's be honest. You aren't just a critic of La Raza. You are a critic of all the brown people from south of our border. You made it clear already that you do not care if they have become U.S. citizens. You paint them all with a broad brush and you don't want any of them here.
Racism like yours is just the sort of thing that will drive even more Hispanics to join groups like La Raza.
April 23, 2007 - IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sponsor: Rep Hinojosa, Ruben [TX-15] COSPONSOR Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1]
To authorize appropriations for assistance for the National Council of La Raza and the Raza Development Fund.
(b) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section—
(1) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and
(2) $10,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.
SOURCE http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=25447
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La Raza is also finacially supported by many corporations and tax-exempt foundations (listed on the Discover the Networks.org). Among them:
LA RAZA BACKERS American Express Foundation, AT&T Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Verizon Foundation.
NOTE WELL Between 2001 and 2003, the Ford Foundation gave La Raza about $9.83 million, with one grant alone totaling $8.05 million and has also assisted invaders to setup legal groups that are suing Americans.
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Raul Yzaguirre-----Smeared pro-English activists.
National Council of La Raza Headquarters
Raul Yzaguirre Building
Washington, DC 20036
Raul Yzaguirre is/was on Hillary Clinton's staff as her Hispanic advisor.
Outrageous that our tax money would go to this demented organization.
Amazing isn't it?
These sap-happy invaders segued from a bunch of tabasco-swilling, hat-dancing, drug-runners violating US borders to seek a "better life"...............into a virulent, evil cadre of American-haters, bent on building Third World hellholes on US soil.
Decimating the American way of life seems to be their chief goal.
Who knew (snicker)?
bttt
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