A recent rule in the US would eliminate food inspectors and lift limits on how quickly pigs can be killed. The impact on workers,animals and consumers would be disastrous
The Trump administration has proposed a radical change in food safety protection. They’re misleadingly calling it the “Modernization of swine slaughter inspection rule, but what it really does is roll back progress on protecting the public from serious and sometimes fatal diseases such as salmonella.
The proposal drastically reduces the number of trained government food inspectors in pork plants, or turns over food safety functions to untrained plant managers,and by allowing for an unlimited increase in slaughter line speeds, puts public health, and worker safety and animal welfare at risk.
In other words,it allows the industry to police itself, like the fox guarding the proverbial hen (or hog) house Related: A million tons of feces and an unbearable stench: life near industrial pig farms Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com