Mar 26, 2009 12:09
"To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes."
There are a number of folks rushing to conclusions that this is a Monsanto buffing, organic farm killer. I'm not convinced it is that nefarious in nature, but I am concerned with the amount of backing Monsanto is providing and the extremely vague wording of this bill. Educate yourself and respond to your representatives in Congress accordingly.
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