“It may have a little something to do with the way Bush and his corporatist cronies crippled Federal regulatory agencies in a cynical effort to increase profits at the cost of the public good.”

Rudy, you’re a little late. The problems with FDA began in 1994 after the Republican Revolution. Gingrich and his boys flatlined the FDA budget. For the last 13 years (even during the Clinton years) the FDA’s budget hasn’t come close to keeping up with the pace of development in industry. If you have several thousand new companies to inspect while the number of inspectors never goes up, it’s a problem waiting to happen. This says nothing about the advances in production technology that FDA should be keeping up with internally. (Their training budget also suffered.) It should be no surprise to anyone that FDA has had to change its inspection practices to focus on the highest risk situations. They don’t have the money or manpower to do anything else despite what the law says they should be doing.

And then we used them anyway?

Oh yeah, fewer regulations and food safety are definitely in order.

They could be rusted.

Execution? Works for me!

But then who would you righties have to look up to if all your heroes have been fried?

There is a role for the government to setup quality standards and to enforce those standards. Regulation directed correctly works.

Too bad it didn’t. Like at all.
Any word on whether PCA was a big GOP donor?

Hell yeah!

Charge them with murder.

Hell, charge them with terrorism, and stick them it Gitmo.