Website review: C-SPAN
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suzukibeane rated 6 weeks ago- Entire Hillary Clinton speech of June 7, 2008 on here.
- LostinAmerica rated 9 months ago
- China & Food Safety C-SPAN2 The House Energy & Commerce Cmte. recently released a report criticizing Chinese food safety standards. David Nelson, the cmte.'s lead investigator on food safety, discusses the report's findings during an Oversight Subcmte. hearing, chaired by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI). _____ A hearing has just been held regarding food safety in the United States. The hearing goes far beyond China (it includes other countries as well as agriculture in this country). It gets to the heart of what the FDA is capable of doing. How does it achieve better food safety in this country, given its lack of power and funding, and what could be done to change its authority? Should it have recall power? What sort of regulatory authorities should it have? Why have their been no epidemiology studies done on U.S. agriculture in the last ten years? Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" -- a book originally meant (by its author) as a socialist treatise, ultimately became a muckraking catalyst that helped change food-safety laws in the the U.S. Within six months of its publication, the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Beef Inspection Act were passed (the Pure Food Act had been languishing in congress for the previous two years). 101 years after "The Jungle's" publication, we're still debating the problems of food safety. Agencies and companies are still dancing around the subject. It is impossible to guarantee the absolute safety of anything. It is, however, absurd that the most basic preventative food-safety laws are still being debated, or that the FDA has no recall power. They can only "urge" companies to recall tainted meat (or anything else suspect). By the time "tainted" meat has been recalled by a company (on its own volition), millions of pounds of that meat has been purchased and consumed. The hearing has just ended, but can be seen at cspan.org on CSPAN2 (via Real Player or Windows Media Player).
- crystalclear rated 18 months ago
- prayers wouldn't go amiss
- greenwhiteblue rated 19 months ago
- Can you believe more of the same old s***.
- nfactor13 rated 21 months ago
- "C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Our mission is to provide public access to the political process. C-SPAN receives no government funding; operations are funded by fees paid by cable and satellite affiliates who carry C-SPAN programming."
