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Old 01-08-2004, 04:44 PM
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Originally posted by strandinthewind
I submit that is a bipartisan agenda.
It is a bipartisan agenda. The Clinton administration held off on implementing standards that would have reduced the chicken industry's listeria problems. Toward the end of his term they finally had them put together but he never signed off on it. Once the Bush administration moved in, Andrew Card threw dismantled the whole idea. Our current Secretary Of Agriculture was formerly a lobbyist for the cattle industry. Thus her on tv a few weeks ago reaasuring everyone it was okay to eat red meat.
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