Editor’s Note: This is some major league propaganda. This article is clearly biased toward trusting our government regulatory agencies to behave with an even hand. They want more control over food and they want it now. Start with an innocent death, and then jump to put the “blame” on a “stubborn” senator and an “unusual coalition of left-and-right-wing advocates.” The sentence in bold says it all. Sure we need to protect our food, but at what expense to our freedoms?
Gardiner Harris
NY Times
WASHINGTON — After his mother died from eating contaminated peanut butter, Jeff Almer went to Washington to push for legislation that might save others from similar fates. And then he went again. And again. And again.
Nearly two years have passed since Shirley Almer’s death. In that time, food contamination involving chocolate chip cookie dough and eggs has sickened thousands more.
But the Senate has still not acted to fix many of the flaws in the nation’s food safety system — although a bill to do so has broad bipartisan support, is a priority for the Obama administration and has the backing of both industry and consumer groups. The House passed its version of the bill more than a year ago.
“It’s so frustrating,” said Mr. Almer, of Savage, Minn. “I don’t even know who to blame.”
The blame lies with a tight Senate calendar, a stubborn senator from Oklahoma and an unusual coalition of left- and right-wing advocates for small farmers who have mounted a surprisingly effective Internet campaign. Their messages have warned, among other untruths, that the bill would outlaw organic farming.
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