All Posts Tagged With: "food safety"
Safe Food at Any Cost
We all want safe food. Question is, how do we get it? “There oughta be a law” seems to be the generally conceived approach, as evidenced by recent passage of the now-famous food safety bill. A tidy and altogether comforting solution: Simply slay the beast of dangerous food with the bludgeon of enlightened bureaucracy. But [...]
21Apr2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 1 comment | ContinuedSafe Food at Any Cost
More regulations always have the effect of reducing the number of operators in the regulated sector.
7Feb2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 13 comments | ContinuedMilton Friedman Is to Blame for Unsafe Food?
There is a “food safety crisis” in America and Milton Friedman is to blame, Princeton University economist Paul Krugman wrote on the New York Times op-ed page May 21. Friedman is responsible, Krugman wrote, because he legitimized a “sickening ideology” that rejects “even the most compelling” cases for government regulation of business. Krugman’s “crisis” stems [...]
1Oct2007 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 3 comments | ContinuedWe Can Do Better than Government Inspection of Meat
Last year’s news reports of tainted beef focused public attention on the safety of the meat supply. In August 1997, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman forced Hudson Foods to recall 25 million pounds of hamburger meat produced at the firm’s state-of-the-art plant in Nebraska. The nation’s largest beef recall occurred after several Colorado consumers became [...]
1May1998 | E.C. Pasour Jr. | 1 comment | Continued-
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