USDA Allowed ConAgra to Poison Americans with Tainted Meat

USDA Allowed ConAgra to Poison Americans with Tainted Meat

www.organicconsumers.org...

This is an old story but it illustates the problem when you no longer have
the "family farm" and only have one corporation supplying all your food!
Everything 'Con'agra and USDA is what this thread is about. Thank you!

Potato growers seek investigation of ConAgra

www.magicvalley.com...
Really gets my goat, what they are doing to these small farmers!

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting today on just how little response the two most recent episodes of Salmonella in peanut butter (first at ConAgra Foods last year and now at Peanut Corporation of America’s plant) which have combined to sicken thousands and kill more than half a dozen has generated on the part of the FDA and the federal government at large. The article points out how the FDA shares food oversight responsibilities with the USDA (aka Department of Agriculture) and how the USDA gets more than two thirds of the federal budget for inspecting food productions, leaving the FDA underfunded and inadequate

www.icwt.us...

Food companies including Sara Lee Corp , ConAgra Foods Inc , Perdue Farms Inc and others are being investigated for possible fraud and corruption in supplying the U.S. military in Iraq,

www.earthtimes.org...

America’s largest microwave popcorn maker, ConAgra Foods Inc is changing therecipe for its Orville Redenbacher and Act II brands of popcorn. The change comes after a doctor at one of the top lung research hospitals sent out a warning letter to federal regulators that consumers might be at risk from cancer causing fumes given off be the buttery flavoring in microwave popcorn.
Conagra has long known of this risk, many of it’s own factory workers have come down with lung cancer after breathing in the chemical during the manufacturing process

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ConAgra Faces Lawsuit Over Salmonella Flavored Tainted Pot Pie Recall

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The Curse of Factory Farms

www.nytimes.com...

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All of these entities that people assume are there to keep them safe like the FDA, USDA, OSHA etc... are in reality just saying to the corporations "Do whatever you want and we'll protect you. Just pass a few bucks out way."

The real consequences for a company that puts out tainted product should be public awareness resulting in a loss of trust resulting in a closed company.

As it is now the people might freak for a moment, the government acts out an "investigation" a fine is levied (translation:bribe is paid) and by government decree trust is back and the company thrives.

The government is effectively saying to the people "it's okay, they won't poison you any more."

Nationalization and globalization are killing everyone and everything. Local focus is where should be living, working and consuming.

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Thank you for that! Summed up perfectly!
We take our food for granted. But thats changing finally!
Our purchasing choices are what matters.
We either put up with it, buy it and enable the company to profit
or we we dont and buy elsewhere.
Where does our money REALLY go anyway?
To only the rich CEO's or to real people?
How about the farmers? Ya right!

Nationalization and globalization are killing everyone and everything. Local focus is where should be living, working and consuming.

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To thin out a population you wouldn't want to kill in masses, you would set up a series of events where you put groups of happenings that of which it allows room for something to be blamed that doesn't point the finger at the obvious. While at the same time the mission is still carried out.

CONAGRA PAYS $8.3 MILLION IN PENALTIES FOR FRAUD SCHEME

www.usda.gov...

This summer's ConAgra recall raises questions not only about the nation's food safety rules but also about the USDA's competence to enforce them. The USDA conducts its random tests for E. coli O157:H7 at wholesale and retail locations, not at the gigantic slaughterhouses where the meat is usually contaminated. By the time the USDA discovers tainted meat, it's already being distributed.

www.thenation.com...

My Second question is: At what point do we, as consumers, start punishing companies who have these issues? And I don't mean simply stop buying Peter Pan peanut butter (which will occur anyways, by virtue of the recent salmonella news stories). I mean the collective "we" figuring out "Well huh, these guys kinda suck when it comes to producing safe food for consumption. Not only will we stop eating their Peter Pan peanut butter, but also their Orville Redenbacher Popcorn, their Reddi-Whip Whipped cream, their Slim Jim's, ad infinitum and (literally) ad nauseum.Sadly, I don't think the answer to the second question is "soon".

Most people probably aren't even aware of Conagra, let alone the products they sell.

www.accidentalhedonist.com...

jimhightower.com...
www.organicconsumers.org...




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Kraft, Unilever, Conagra, Coke, Pepsi, just to name a few, all use Monsanto products and other companies of which contain chemicals that are known to cause cancer. These corporations are so large that paying the millions in fines for suits is just part of the business.

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Thank you for that!
Agreed, its small potatoes!
It's probably even in the budgets as a legitimate business expense!
More local stuff on that very subject!
I'm sure everyone has seen this story below;

ConAgra Inc. has agreed to spend more than $3.5 million --$1 million in a cash penalty and the rest for environmental improvements -- to settle a complaint in federal court alleging that ConAgra's Armour Fresh Meats slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Nampa, Idaho, committed more than 600 violations of the Clean Water Act between 1992 and 1996.

yosemite.epa.gov...!

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The CEO of any company that puts out tainted products knowingly should face attempted murder charges. If that company shipped knowingly tainted foods to soldiers, then they should also be charged with treason.

Starred and flagged.

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reply to post by groingrinder

Thank you very much for your thoughts!
I have to agree. It is criminal and unconscionable!

Sad, when money becomes the most important thing on earth.
Thanks again!

Excellent article here:
www.freshplaza.com...
After the farmers grew the potatoes for them, they want
to go back on their contracts! Yap, criminal.
The worst thing is, it's being done with our food!!!

The cooperative, which represents about 300 potato growers in Idaho, alleges that ConAgra Lamb Weston terminated grower contracts that it approved earlier in the year. At the same time, cooperative officials say, company field men asked growers individually to sign joint-venture contracts that would give ConAgra greater control of their operations and undermining SIPCO.

The rise of a billion-dollar food processing industry with clients such as the McDonalds Corporation and Burger King has led to the fall of the small independent grower.

Con Agra Lamb Weston controls almost 50 percent of Idaho potato processing, making it difficult for growers to sell their potatoes elsewhere.

"Con Agra probably thought we were just gong to let this go, so I'm sure they will be surprised when the see this,"Loughmiller said.

Please read!

The SCAM behind NAIS

On our very first visit he was explaining the World Bank, the International Monetary fund and how the world bankers planned on collateralizing the world debt with land. Not just the U.S. national debt, but also the "WORLD" debt.
When James Baker made his keynote speech in 1987, he stated that, "No longer will the World Bank carry this debt unsecured. The only assets we have to collateralize are federal lands and national parks." Baker's definition of federal lands includes Heritage sites, of which there are about 20 in the United States.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, "The first step in implementing a national animal identification system (NAIS) is identifying and registering premises that are associated with the animal agriculture industry. In terms of the NAIS, a premise is any geographically unique location in which agricultural animals are raised, held, or boarded. Under this definition, farms, ranches, feed-yards, auction barns and livestock exhibitions and fair sites are all examples of premises."

The word "Premise" is a synonym for the word tenement. A definition of the word tenement in law is: Property, such as land, held by one person "leasing" it to another. Webster's New World Dictionary 1960 College Edition defines "Premises" as the part of a deed or "lease" that states its reason, the parties involved and the property in "conveyance." Webster then defines "conveyance" as the transfer of ownership of real property from one person to another. It is quite obvious that the bureaucrats in Washington had a very good reason to use the term "premises" and never mention "PROPERTY."

I am convinced that the word "premise" will put an encumbrance on your deed. The bankers say they want to monetize land. It's your land and my land they want to monetize.

The bankers are in the process of accumulating the wealth of the world.

Interesting! I think it all ties in together with the financial crisis and the
tightening grip of control over every facet of our lives!
Including the food we even grow ourselves!

They know whoever controls the food, controls the population!

Food Safety Scam: The Letter of the Law Makes Criminals of Us All

farmwars.info...

Wonderful. Once again the USDA is out to subvert the meaning of our language and hand over the food market to big corporate interests. They are going to take over the term grass fed just like they took over the term organic so that big business can benefit and those of use who have been doing it for years will be shoved out the back door.
This is about big monied lobbyists manipulating regulations, laws and definitions to benefit their corporate masters so they can corner the market and force out the competition from small farmers.
One more way our government ‘helps’ us. Anything to do with the government is not voluntary for long. Eventually the busy bodies mandate it because they ‘know what is best for you’.
The solution is for consumers to buy locally from farmers they know and trust. But there’s no money in that for the high paid lobbyists and big corporations. Note that the USDA spends billions of dollars subsidizing Big Ag but only a few million dollars promoting local small farm to consumer programs like “Community Food Projects” which has been cut from the recent farm bill.

nonais.org...






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