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"The FDA is responsible for egg safety when eggs are still in the shell, but the USDA takes over once they are broken. In addition, the FDA is in charge of chicken feed safety, while the USDA is responsible for the chickens."
"If you buy a cheese pizza, the Department of Agriculture is responsible for that. But if you buy a pepperoni pizza, it is the FDA. I may have them reversed. I do have them reversed. The FDA is responsible for cheese pizzas. How does that make sense?"
"It is a symptom of the disease in Washington," continued Coburn. "First of all, it is stupid. Second of all, it is inefficient. Third of all, it guarantees the two agencies are not going to be talking to each other."
"What do we have going on here? We have a mess."
"[This is], in both magnitude and severity, the single most severe, systematic example of man's inhumanity to another sentient animal."Can you guess what "this" is?
"Morals define personal character, while ethics stress a social system in which those morals are applied.
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So while a person’s moral code is usually unchanging, the ethics he or she practices can be other-dependent."
Examples:
"It may be helpful to consider a criminal defense lawyer. Though the lawyer’s personal moral code likely finds murder immoral and reprehensible, ethics demand the accused client be defended as vigorously as possible, even when the lawyer knows the party is guilty."
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"Another area in which ethics and morals can clash is at the workplace where company ethics can play against personal morality."
"... the size of the farm is not a relevant food safety characteristic. Same thing goes for the requirement that such small producers must sell more than half their production within the state they are located in or within 275 miles."Note that almost half of a small producer's wares, which have been exempted via the Tester Amendment, may be sold non-locally (out of state and beyond 275 miles).
"... if you believe the bill is actually going to enhance food safety, then leaving small producers out of the loop poses enormous dangers to all producers — and the public."Here he questions the link between food safety and selling directly to retailers, restaurants or consumers:
"In order to get the exemption from the food safety requirements, it is not sufficient to just be small or to sell locally; one also must sell directly to retailers, restaurants or consumers. ... The idea seems to be that if a buyer knows where the food is coming from, risk is reduced or eliminated.Another good point he makes is that the Bill, with the Tester Amendment, discriminates against small family businesses that act as distributers.
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But the restaurant or retailer 275 miles from the farm doesn’t necessarily know anything about his supplier. ... How many small retailers and restaurants [or consumers] have the knowledge to evaluate a farm or processor for food safety standards?"
"... if one really believes these rules will enhance safety, they have to apply to everyone."
"I became a vegan,” says Tyson. “Vegan is where no animal products. No livestock products. Nothing. I just did a lot of training and try to become more faithful in life. I wanted a different life. I felt like I was dying. I had an incident in life where I lost my 4 year old daughter in a tragic accident at home. I don’t know. I didn’t want to live anymore. So I said, that in order to go there, I had to change my life. I am going to change everything I dislike about myself. I changed everything that I was as a human being. I started that journey in October or November. … I don’t smoke anymore. I wanted to give up everything. I had to change my life. I didn’t have a problem with drugs or nothing. I had a problem with thinking. My thinking was broken. That was the solution of my broken thinking using drugs and living crazy. It was just the way I was thinking."On the worst part about being 350 pounds:
"It was hard to wipe my butt… I was sweating like some kind of guy from a moon project or something. It was crazy… All the clothes you see me with now are clothes that I had 15, 20 years ago. (Host: Did you have the back fat and everything?) Oh man the back fat. The back fat is when it’s so bad, your ass looks like a board. It’s like boom. The back and ass is one. It’s not like the back goes down and the butt protrudes. No. It’s just straight down. And then girls were telling me I looked great. It has to be a money deal. It had to be."Tyson this summer:
"By combining data on nearly 1.5 million participants from 19 studies we were able to evaluate a wide range of BMI levels and other characteristics that may influence the relationship between excess weight and risk of death.Here's the Institute of Health's BMI calculator. I can't embed it but clicking it will take you to it.
Smoking and pre-existing illness or disease are strongly associated with the risk of death and with obesity. A paramount aspect of the study was our ability to minimize the impact of these factors by excluding those participants from the analysis."
"Researchers tracked the symptoms of depression in people who were trying to quit and found that they were never happier than when they were being successful, for however long that was.
The most illustrative — and somewhat tragic — subjects were the ones who only quit temporarily. Their moods were clearly brightest at the checkups when they were abstinent. After going back to smoking, their mood darkened, in some cases to higher levels of sadness than before.
Subjects who never quit remained the unhappiest of all throughout the study.
The ones who quit and stuck with abstinence were the happiest to begin with and remained at the same strong level of happiness throughout.
Looking at the data, [lead author Christopher Kahler] said, it is difficult to believe that smoking serves as an effective way to medicate negative feelings and depression, even if some people report using tobacco for that reason. In fact, he said, the opposite seems more likely — that quitting smoking eases depressive symptoms.“If they quit smoking their depressive symptoms go down and if they relapse, their mood goes back to where they were,” he said. “An effective antidepressant should look like that.”
A federal judge in California has ordered the removal from the ground of plants grown to produce seeds for genetically modified sugar beets.The beet plants were genetically modified by Monsanto to resist their herbicide Roundup. Farmers may use Roundup liberally on Roundup-resistant plants.
In his decision, Judge White cited, “a significant risk of environmental harm.”
“The likely environmental harm ... is irreparable,” Judge White wrote.
"The government's conduct is really outrageous. ... The court had just said in August the beets could not be grown and the government turned around and gave the industry the opportunity to grow them."George Kimbrell, an attorney for the Centers for Food Safety:
"[Judge White's ruling is] a groundbreaking victory for farmers and the environment. ... This is the first time ever a federal court ordered an illegal biotech crop destroyed."David Snively, general counsel for Monsanto:
"We believe the court's action overlooked the factual evidence presented that no harm would be caused by these plantings."