Trump Wants Everyone to Eat Unregulated Food. Or Maybe Not.

The candidate's call to gut food safety rules mysteriously disappeared from his campaign website.


Thursday morning, the Donald Trump campaign announced a plan to rein in the police—the "FDA food police," that is. In a "fact sheet" trumpeting the candidate's  "pro-growth" economic plan that will "create 25 million jobs," the campaign railed against Food and Drug Administration rules for "farm and food production hygiene, food packaging, [and] food temperatures," Mother Jones' Kevin Drum reports. The document also denounced "inspection overkill."

Even with these allegedly Draconian rules in place, food-borne illnesses sicken 48 million Americans annually, leading to 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. Yet according to Trump, making America great again means freeing food corporations to regulate themselves.
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Hours later the link was changed and there was no mention of food or the FDA at all.
What gives?



http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/09/trump-wants-gut-food-safety-regulations

Last edited by Goose (9/20/2016 9:39 am)