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Tuomas -> RE: USDA To Meatpackers: You Have No Right To Test For Deadly Diseases (6/1/2007 11:28:16 AM)
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My knowledge of the meat-packing industry is limited to a History Channel special and what I know about HACCP. Before HACCP, there where serious sanitation problems, because the only inspecting agency was the FDA, and there is no way they could certify all the food the US eats. Therefore, HACCP was divised where the processor would develop it's own hygene system, and certify it's own meat, and the FDA would only inspect the application of the programme. This resulted in a significant increase in food quality, so much so that HACCP has become the food standard in pretty much the entire world.
The issue, I guess, has to do with this one company wanting separate certification outside industry standard and use it to engage in destructive competition based on the implication that other meat was inferior for not having this certification. (Something like the 1990's Tylenol impasse where Tylenol tried to put on their packages and advertizing "does not contain salicylic acid" -implying that salicylic acid is bad for your health. The issue, of course, was that Aspirin IS salicylic acid, so anyone who saw the Tylenol advertizements and then looked at a package of Apirin wouldn't buy the latter out of fear of salicylic acid. However, this was overruled in court, because it constituted "destructive competition", which is illegal.) The only way in which separate certification would be valid as an advertizement means is to imply that the industry standard (HACCP) is deficient -unless you are marketing to the paranoid section of the market who fear all "corporate greed" tactics.
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And after reading something like this, people still think the US is "capitalist" [:'(]
...corporate, perhaps....
Corporativism, facism, socialism... pretty much the same thing in my book.
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