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Hillary Clinton calls for more food safety funding, ban on downer cattle slaughter

Following the massive Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. beef recall, Hillary Clinton listed a series of food safety actions she would take as president, including a 50 percent increase in USDA's food safety budget and a ban on slaughtering downer cattle.

In a statement on her campaign Web site, Clinton said she would:

Conduct an immediate audit of the nation's food safety systems to locate weaknesses and gaps


Increase USDA food safety funding by more than 50 percent so that inspectors have the resources and staffing they need to do their jobs

Move toward a single Food Safety Administration responsible for all food products

Give USDA and FDA mandatory recall authority and direct them to create a national tracing system to determine the origin of tainted food

Find, prosecute and punish food production facilities that abuse animals and allow unsafe food to enter the food supply

Permanently ban the slaughter of downed animals
Clinton noted that 12 of the 15 cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in North America were linked to downed animals; downed animals were three times more likely to carry E. coli; and, according to one analysis, 14 percent of downed cows carried salmonella.

I thought Sadhusker, OVI and crew told us that the US had banned the slaughter of downed animals but the possible next President of the US of A says otherwise. Who to believe?

With the potential future US President now focusing on beef safety it looks like PETA and the anti-meat groups may have found an ally much better than R-Klan. For the past 5 years some have claimed that the negative smear campaign that R-Klan had employed against Canada would backfire and now it looks like it's about to happen.
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