This is the problem, the law was put in place in 2002, but, due to dems and republicans who lobby for Food companies, we are food that is really unsafe.

It is the lobbyists, like Dole, Clinton, on and on

Sandi

Do you think congress voted and said LIE and cover up? When we ask questions please just don’t answer, or hide the info?
Maybe they did. It would not surprise me.
It would take more than a vote in congress to make ME lie and cover up for a big company and a big company that sells a killing product does not have the power to destroy my morals. They just don’t. I know that people who will sell their votes cheap infest our government, I did not elect them.
And will not so much as shake hands socially with them.

That is not a broad brush, that is the way it is. Either people lie, or they don’t, can be bought or cannot.

You do not see any posts of mine calling for food safety because I no longer believe that it will ever be safer. Paying MORE to be lied to? there I draw the line. Giving more money and power to an agency that abuses what power and money they have now? Nah, not going to support it.
If the FDA held a news conference and told the truth about how many pets died, thousands and that thousands more were damaged for life AND IF THEY HAD DONE THAT INSTEAD OF LYING AND COVERING UP FOR 4 FREAKING MONTHS then things might be different.

CSPAN3

I don’t have the schedule yet as to whether it will be replayed tonight on CSPAN. There was a great call in show and discussion with the chairman of the committee, Rep. Bart Stupak, Dem, that just concluded. Don’t miss it if it’s replayed tonight.

E., if this call in show is repeated tonight on CSPAN, you might want to hear Rep. Stupak’s answers to callers about the votes in Congress during the past 2 years that have made the FDA what it is today. It’s one thing to paint with a broad brush, but you should know your facts if you want changes going forward.

I aint just dancing happy with any political party, politician or public official these days. Just being an American right now is hard for me to bear on a daily basis and the nightmare of lies and cover up and betrayal that has been my life since March, December 06 if you count the first pet of mine that died, is about all I can handle.

Nonetheless, a U.S. Senator came here and asked help and I gave it, I saw it as my duty to give it and I think a 5 minute press release is not much to ask in return. I can’t expect justice, I am not so foolish that I expect that in America anymore. I don’t expect to get respect for being a good citizen, caring for my neighbors, voting ( and yes, I KNOW my vote does not count , I know that), doing jury duty when called to it, what I was raised to do. I don’t like being told to bend the knee to folks who hang on the public tit and I am not real pleased that we have a King after that fuss with England about 200 years ago, but I do my best to hope for better days.

So leave me out of the Republican versus Democrat debate because I can’t find a dimes difference between em.

It would take about 5 minutes and would earn him lasting fame.
Make a big enough deal about treating the American people right and he could be elected president! people would be so grateful, once they got over the shock of a politician not screwing them over.
Here is how it could go.

Yo MEDIA listen up!
The 16 “official ” pet deaths so frequently reported by the media were test animals killed by Menu Foods- they were not the beloved pets of American citizens, whose pets died in numbers in the thousands and many thousands more pets are damaged for life. The costs these American citizens paid in money for vet bills is staggering and a significant hardship. The costs in heartbreak and tears is beyond calculation. The pet parents who suffered such losses alerted the entire country to a very significant threat to the food safety of this country and deserve our thanks rather than to be insulted by having their sacrifice minimized. It is a unkind twisting of the knife in the wound to under report the number of deaths. It is a nasty thing to do, quit . Dr. Stephen Sundlof has said that the media is misquoting him, that the FDA is aware that the numbers of pet deaths are in the thousands. Since the Senate cannot get a straight answer out of the FDA, and pet parents are resorting to paying for private testing of pet food due to mistrust of the FDA, this situation is unacceptable and the media can feel free to take that issue up with Sunny.
When I asked these pet parents to assist in my plans to help make the American food systems safer, these citizens who had already paid a heavy price responded quickly and did as I asked and I thank them. That is all.

Less than 5 minutes. I timed it.

Katie

We have to figure out a way to demand that they protect the pet-owning public — heck, not just pet owners, everyone, because we all eat, breathe, and drink.

I used to have a party, but I don’t anymore. Both parties are corrupt, because politics in this country has become about STAYING IN POWER and HAVING POWER rather than about service. The major candidates in both parties — the better “chance” they have of winning the less sense they make, because they no longer stand for anything. Only the fringe candidates make any sense at all.

How could it be otherwise when CORPORATIONS, LOBBIES, and PACs are needed by politicians to BUY their way into office?

The system itself has evolved in such a way as to ENSURE that only sellouts will ever get elected.

WE are partly responsible for this. We sit in front of the tube and watch the advertising, which pays the networks for the shows that cover (OR DON’T cover, as is more often the case) the news.

But I digress.

We need a march on Washington. A huge march on Washington. But not just a protest. We need to have a dumping of pet food. Get a bunch of pet food and dump it in the reflecting pool. (so it won’t hurt the critters living in the tidal basin, of course).

Dump it on the steps of congress.

Try to get them to eat it.

Have videos of dying pets on the steps of the capitol.

Then, we have to vote with our wallets. By making our own pet food or only buying from small companies who make all their own food and know exactly where everythign comes from.

That’s the House of Representatives hearing on food safety and the FDA. There are 3 panels: the 2nd one appears most promising, with a rep. from the Center for Science in the Public Interest and a former FDA chief who has been very critical of the state of today’s FDA.

That’s an idea Thomas. Tell Bush HE CAN HAVE THE MONEY. Do you think he may feel the need to make mention and consider doing something about it if HE CAN BENEFIT from it?

Many homeless people are victims of the system of the USA gov’t and have been beaten and abused by it, many of these people have more integrity than our government officials.