Good news everybody! The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture has finally gotten off the dime. The MSM missed the story (of course), but we’ve got you covered at Threedonia. From Monday’s Federal Register:
“The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to revise the Federal meat inspection regulations to permit establishments that slaughter livestock or prepare livestock carcasses and parts to inflate carcasses and parts with air…”
All I can say is that it’s about damned time.
Seriously. Welcome to my life kids. Outlaw fights the bad guys and protects the good guys. Floyd and Wankette challenge and educate young minds. Me? I sift through the mountain of regulations that the bureaucracy churns out on a daily basis, looking for the latest proposed amendment to a interim rule that was promulgated to replace the previous temporary standard, which may or may not screw one or more of my clients. In the course of sifting, some of the flotsam catches your eye and you have a WTF moment, as I did when I read this:
I’m sure that cow inflation is a good thing for the industry, and I’m sure that we need regulations to make sure it’s done in a sanitary manner. Mine is just a very, very weird world.
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Hm. I always understood this practice was considered unsanitary for meat for human consumption. I wonder why the change, or perhaps this is for meat used for non-human consumption?
Eat Mor Chikin
Inflated Beef. It’s what’s for dinner…….
Hell, it’s about time that food caught up with our currency.
Nice one Tim.
That’s the comment of the day thus far!
I haven’t the time to read the whole article right now, but shall later.
Don’t we already have a preponderance of inflated cows in DC already? Who needs a law anyway? They always do whatever the hell they want, regardless of what their consituents say, so…carry on DC. That’s why there’s a comic book company called DC Comics!
And I suppose it’s just a coincidence that terrorists in the Gaza Strip detonated a donkey with 200 kg of dynamite yesterday.
I shall refrain from asking where they packed it!
“Inflated cows”…Fritz is having one of his fantasies about Nancy Pelosi!
Not the kind of fantasy you’re thinking of, Scott!
I’ve never attempted to inflate a cow but have failed at tipping one. Yup, I’m in Tennessee.
Are you a big tipper?
Well,Rufus,Veruckt is from MIDDLE Tennessee!
I’m discovering the same thing in my new job. Today was some training on the shipment and transportation of hazardous materials.
Question: Did you ship hazardous materials in a publicly accessible space when you drove to work this morning?
Answer: Yes, you did. So why didn’t you file the proper paperwork with the federal government? You should know before ou answer, that if you knowingly didn’t file the proper paperwork you are susceptible to imprisonment and a $250K fine per day, per instance (your employer is susceptible to a $500K fine per day, per instance).
So does the Dept. of Transportation regulate what you do with your motor vehicle?
Well, no, actually it doesn’t, but only because it’s chosen not to.
The federal government has defined the transportation of that gasoline, oil, grease, and anti-freeze flowing through you engine of your private vehicle as “materials of trade”, and therefore 49 CFR does not apply. … For now.
Don’t you just love Big Government?
This is what happens when lawyers are put in charge. Common sense is flushed down that government regulated low flow toilet.
Thanks for reminding them, Daniel!