<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Chris Hibbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hibbert@mydruthers.com" target="_blank">hibbert@mydruthers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">William Flynn Wallace replied<br>
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Further: we libertarians have to concede that the feds have a place<br>
in the world. We need more regulation like inspection of foreign<br>
foods we import.<br>
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Even if I concede that there is a role for a Federal government, intervention in the food market is not necessarily part of it.<br>
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Private organizations certifying the content would do just fine. And very little of the foreign imports are getting to consumers through roadside stands and farmer's markets. It's mostly coming in through grocery chains who have a lot to lose if they're not paying attention to what they sell. If the Feds weren't assuring us that the food is all safe (when we know they can't have (and don't claim to have) inspected and monitored everything then the shippers and sellers would spend more of their own money on it.<br>
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> That's a wide open door for terrorists to get through.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div>If terrorists want to poison our food supply to get us, they could do it domestically just as easily.<br>
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The supplements we take are unregulated: Consumer Reports says that many<br>
supplements don't have what the label says they have, or not in the amounts<br>
they say they do. Where is the FDA?<br>
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We aren't going to give the FDA enough money to monitor everything, so we'd be better off finding another way (Consumer Reports comes to mind) to inspect and label.<br>
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Chris<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I have utterly no objection to private business doing these things, but nobody is - mostly. CR does do a good job but they are very limited by money. I support them.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">No, we aren't going to give regulators more money. Repubs to blame. Hell, they won't even give the IRS enough money to hire more people to make more money than it would take to pay them. Stupid stupid.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">If terrorists want to poison our food supply to get us, they could do it domestically just as easily.</span><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">All the more reason to give the FDA more money. I am not a conspiracy theorist - by a very long shot. But we are not being careful enough about our water supply, food supply, drugs, power stations, and more. Remember when someone, never caught, poisoned Tylenol, leading to the kind of packaging we have nowadays? That could look like very small change. I hope I am wrong.</span></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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