Trump administration allows pork slaughterhouses to have fewer USDA inspectors

[Cinnabar]

The new rule also allows plants to run their processing lines as fast as they like.

The Trump administration will allow pork plants to reduce the number of Department of Agriculture line inspectors assigned to them and run their slaughter lines without any speed limit under a new rule intended to modernize an antiquated inspection system. But the changes have alarmed consumer advocates who believe the rule will make food less safe and endanger workers.

The new rule will let factory workers, rather than USDA inspectors, remove unsuitable carcasses and trim defects in plants that opt into the new inspection system. USDA inspectors will still examine the carcasses, but they will be stationed farther down the line, and off-line inspectors will be roaming the factory to conduct other kinds of safety checks.

But consumer advocates fear that factory workers will not be as well trained or independent as USDA inspectors, and that they could miss critical signs of disease and contamination, endangering the public.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/wh...terhouses-have-fewer-usda-inspectors-n1055451

I don't eat pork but I do suggest Trump fans eat lots of it.

 

[MAGA MAN]

"Many consumer advocates fear..." lol

How many consumer advocates have ever set foot in a processing plant?

 

[Althea]

I don't eat pork but I do suggest Trump fans eat lots of it.

That's because he's preparing to sell a shit ton of it to China. Their pork industry is dead.

 

[Adolf_Twitler]

Donald Trump is out to strip the United States government from protecting consumers.

Just as Donald Trump is out to strip the government from protecting our environment.

Donald Trump is a morally deficient reckless, careless, corrupt, self-serving tyrant.

 

[Cinnabar]

That's because he's preparing to sell a shit ton of it to China. Their pork industry is dead.

How much will they buy when their consumers start dropping dead? How does this even make sense in the long run? Like the big pharma industry? The profits will outweigh the lawsuit payouts? I don't eat commercially raised meat even on the rare occasions I do eat meat so let his supporters have a pork-fest. I do feel bad for the animals though.

 

[signalmankenneth]