Michele Bachmann Envisions a World Without Food Industry Safety Standards

[GoLeft TV]

Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann believes that the government needs to stay out of the business of protecting the foods we eat. At a campaign stop this week, she told her supporters that food suppliers are “overburdened” by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations. She informed the crowd that, yes, we need safety, but more importantly, we also need what she calls “common sense.”

Bachmann is joining in the chorus of conservative voices railing against “burdensome” regulations, but she is among the first to make the claim in regards to the food industry. Last December, Bachmann was one of the few members of Congress to vote against legislation that would have protected consumers by increasing the oversight of the food processing industry, a move that she claims would cause producers to spend more on safety and less on creating new jobs.

Bachmann was joined in her crusade against food safety standards last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation. Heritage went on the offensive last year when Congress debated legislation to increase food industry safety standards. Heritage claimed that regulation will never work, and that the free market has built in mechanisms that weed out any bad eggs who produce substandard goods

Full story and more of Bachmann's vision for a de-regulated America is available at DeSmogBlog - http://desmogblog.com/michele-bachmann-envisions-world-without-food-industry-safety-standards

[Zoeisright]

1. I hate her fucking, stupid guts.

There is NO one more stupid than Bachmann and her ignorant followers.

[madrchsod]

2. she`s a dumb fuck....why are people like her given a public forum?

[pscot]

3. Yeah.I can see

how that would work.

[drm604]

4. Does she even listen to what she's saying?

a move that she claims would cause producers to spend more on safety and less on creating new jobs

That doesn't even make sense. What does she think happens when they spend money on food safety? Do they burn it as an offering to the food safety gods who then send magical food safety elves to ensure food safety?

No, when they spend money on food safety, that money employs people who clean equipment, inspect the food, etc. Money spent on food safety is money that employs people.

What does she think they would do with the money that they now spend on safety? Fire the cleaners and inspectors and hire other people to do something else? To do what? Not inspect food?

These companies fight these regulations so they can employ less people, not more!

[stuntcat]

9. "These companies fight these regulations so they can employ less people, not more!"

thanks, this is a 100% true fact that my fellow citizens don't seem to care about. It's blowing away their babies' future but they won't do anything about it. just blows my mind.

[kestrel91316]

5. Children dying of E. coli tainted burgers is just fine with Bachmann,

because they aren't Sacred Fetuses (TM).

[murphyj87]

6. Bachmann should look up the consequences of...

E. Coli, botulism, trichinosis and all the other food borne illnesses. If it were up to Bachmann, people with these food borne illnesses would not be able to afford the health care to be treated for them either, so they'd die.

[CJvR]

7. They are right!

...and that the free market has built in mechanisms that weed out any bad eggs who produce substandard goods

Yes, they are called lynch mobs and are very effective.

[txlibdem]

8. Social Darwinism

What else can you expect from her?