and u.s.d.a. have done everything that big ag has asked them to do and told them to do so we have we see influence even in the courts clarence thomas on the supreme court was monsanto's former attorney the secretary of agriculture tom vilsack was the former governor of the. here he had given an award to months santo the chief negotiator for the united states is a former crop life person basically the trade group for months and on the other groups the person at the u.s.d.a. used to give out money for research another months into a person when they approve bovine growth hormone monsanto's drug which is injected into cows to increase milk supply to former researchers from monsanto took positions at the f.d.a. at the time that the drug was approved so they have insinuated themselves in through money revolving door and other influence methods jeffrey are there any countries that officially. oh yes in fact there are many countries that do not allow g m o's to be planted on their soil many countries in europe

and u.s.d.a. have done everything that big ag has asked them to do and told them to do so we have we see influence even in the courts clarence thomas on the supreme court was monsanto's former attorney the secretary of agriculture tom vilsack was the former governor. the year he had given an award two months santo the chief negotiator for the united states is a former crop life person basically the trade group for months and two of the other groups the person at the u.s.d.a. used to give out money for research another months into a person when they approve bovine growth hormone monsanto's drug which is injected into cows to increase milk supply to former researchers from monsanto took positions at the f.d.a. at the time that the drug was approved so they have insinuated themselves in through money revolving door and other influence methods jeffrey are there any countries that officially. oh yes in fact there are many countries that do not allow g m o's to be planted on their soil many countries in euro

and u.s.d.a. have done everything that big ag has asked them to do and told them to do so we have we see influence even in the courts clarence thomas on the supreme court was monsanto's former attorney the secretary of agriculture tom vilsack was the former governor of the year he had given an award to mine santo the chief negotiator for the united states is a former crop life person basically the trade group for months and on the other groups the person at the u.s.d.a. used to give out money for research another month santa a person when they approve bovine growth hormone monsanto's drug which is. injected into cows to increase milk supply to former researchers from monsanto took positions at the f.d.a. at the time that the drug was approved so they have insinuated themselves in through money revolving door and other influence methods jeffery are there any countries that officially. oh yes in fact there are many countries that do not allow g m o's to be planted on their soil many countries in europe p

u.s.d.a. was allegedly collecting data to prove their point that if you have the company employees doing the quality defects you could then focus the remaining u.s.d.a. inspection personnel to look at food safety they would do sampling for salary melanin but what what happened was that the u.s.d.a. was not collecting enough data so in two thousand and one the the then general accounting office which is now the government accountability office did an analysis of the pilots and said u.s.d.a. you really can't move forward to expand this beyond. the pilot plants so. nothing nothing happens nothing happens that the pilots still go on and then the obama administration in late two thousand and eleven starts to make noises that they want to expand the the pilot in the poultry plant so why would the obama administration presumably a democratic and relatively. progressive administration want to be advancing a libertarian republican policy i mean that's that's a good question but again this this all started during the clinton administration and of course tyson big contributor from arkansas bill clinton's home

u.s.d.a. inspectors control where they found on the line and control what access they have to the plant and how much authority they have a very dangerous situation when we already know we have food safety problems food safety problems indeed according to the center for disease control there are approximately seventy six million cases of food borne illness each year in the united states three. a hundred twenty five thousand of them result in hospitalizations and five thousand of them in death. however those statistics haven't seemed to slow down the u.s.d.a. which is eager to implement this in over six hundred hog plants nationwide all despite the fact that the department has yet to study whether the program is even working tony corbo of watchdog organization food and water watch calls this lack of review disturbing it's obvious. that in the last fifteen years whether it's the the that the pilots that they've been running and chicken the turkey plants or in the hog plants that there has not been a thorough analysis and their data does not support the theory that this is going to improve food saf

u.s.d.a. was allegedly collecting data to prove their point that if you have the company employees doing the quality defects you could then focus the remaining u.s.d.a. inspection personnel to look at food safety they would do sampling for salary melanin but what what happened was that the u.s.d.a. was not collecting enough data so in two thousand and one the the then general accounting office which is now the government accountability office did an analysis of the pilots and said u.s.d.a. you really can't move forward to expand this beyond. the pilot plants so. nothing nothing happens nothing happens that the pilots still go on and then deal. bamma ministration in late two thousand and eleven starts to make noises that they want to expand the the pilot in the poultry plant so why would the obama administration presumably a democratic and relatively progressive in the situation want to be advancing a libertarian republican policy i mean that's that's a good question but again this this all started during the clinton administration and of course tyson big contributor from arkansas bill clinton's home

u.s.d.a. and the -- i forget the other one, i'm sorry. but my point is, this is going to be overseen. if the chinese wanted somehow to poison us, they already would have done that through 90% of the tilapia or apple juice we get from them. >> china has been plagued by major food-processing scandals. >> yeah. and one of the problems is they don't own brands like smithfield. consumers will have to deal with your mistakes and ruin your company. the problem with china is they make the products that are then resold in america. i'll take it one further than gary. i don't think major brands in america need the government doing consumer safety. maybe other regulations. because disney can't make a dangerous ride. they'll get sued. they don't need that much oversight. in china, they need it. in small companies or a fly-by-night fair needs government regulation, but not a major name. they would go out of business quickly if they did something unsafe. >> we should be very worried because i agree with tracy on something. >> that's serious. >> the usda has no authorization to do inspections in china. the fda does not. and a big concern is if they start taking meat