{"id":13807,"date":"2010-12-17T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=13807"},"modified":"2010-12-17T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:15:27","slug":"stick-a-fork-in-it-the-food-safety-modernization-bill-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/stick-a-fork-in-it-the-food-safety-modernization-bill-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick a Fork in It &#8211; The Food Safety Modernization Bill is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/American_gothic_parody.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13809\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/American_gothic_parody.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a>(From our sister-blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/redgreenandblue.org\/2010\/12\/17\/food-safety-modernization-act-the-bill-that-wouldnt-die-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Green &amp; Blue)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This time it looks like it\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/healthwatch\/food-safety\/134201-democrats-havent-given-up-on-food-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dead for good<\/a>. Despite passing both houses by wide margins of bi-partisan support, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redgreenandblue.org\/2010\/12\/09\/is-the-food-safety-bill-a-blessing-or-a-corporatist-curse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversy-laden<\/a> Food Safety Modernization Act (<a href=\"http:\/\/newhope360.com\/full-text-s-510-fda-food-safety-modernization-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S 510<\/a>)\u00a0has died, a victim of end-of-session Senate gridlock and a resurgent GOP that is perfectly happy to see nothing much get done before they take back the House of Representatives in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Food crusader\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/29\/opinion\/29schlosser.html?_r=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Pollan<\/a> calls this \u201cThe best opportunity in a generation to improve the safety of the American food supply,\u201d\u00a0But other groups \u2013 from big\u00a0agriculture\u00a0to small producers \u2013 hated the bill because in order to improve safety it increased regulation. And a lot of people \u2013 from anti-corporate lefties to anti-government Tea Partiers \u2013 decried the bill as a massive power-grab&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read the whole story at <a href=\"http:\/\/redgreenandblue.org\/2010\/12\/17\/food-safety-modernization-act-the-bill-that-wouldnt-die-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Green &amp; Blue<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(From our sister-blog, Red Green &amp; Blue) This time it looks like it\u2019s\u00a0dead for good. Despite passing both houses by wide margins of bi-partisan support, the\u00a0controversy-laden Food Safety Modernization Act (S 510)\u00a0has died, a victim of end-of-session Senate gridlock and a resurgent GOP that is perfectly happy to see nothing much get done before they 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