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To: Doo who wrote (1558)3/28/2001 4:59:11 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 12411
 
Hi Jeffry,

And my apology for being a bit too harsh.

As regards your fleshing out the intertwining of USDA and Trade Represetative agendas, I think you are to be commended for helping me see through what now appears to be a sham enforcement of a misguided and convoluted policy. Everything that you say about root cause of this dispute seems completely plausible to me. The only thing that doesn't seem plausible is the government's apparent willingness to disregard the justifiable unwillingness of the EU to experiment on a grand scale with the European population consuming adulterated American products. We've had some discussion on this thread in the past regarding the controversial use of anti-biotics as a means to producing greater meat yields, and the apparent arrogance of the meat industry regarding this obnoxious and dangerous practice. So, it comes as no great surprise to me that the slaughter of the Vermont sheep furthers several agendas, none of which have a thing to do with the immediate safety of the general public.

This incident reminds me of a similar USDA/FDA dispute in California in the early 1990's. At the time, the organic food industry was operating under several differing standards and the Raley's Supermarket chain decided a benefit to their customers would be a privately run inspection and certification service, to be done in house. When the Feds found out about this impertinence, they came down on Raley's like a ton of bricks. There was to be no private agency assuring the public of the safety of its foodstuffs. This was the turf of the FDA and they would not relinquish the role or allow competition. So much for the Federal government having the best interests of its citizens in mind.
Subsequent attempts at reconciling organic certification rules nationwide only proved that the FDA was willing to bend the rules in the most perverse ways for the sake of its agribusiness benefactors.

Best, Ray :)
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