News and analysis
By John E. Peck
Hidden deep within the bowels of the recently passed 2002 Farm Bill - unbeknownst to most consumers, farmers, and taxpayers - was Section 1079E, granting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to approve any technology capable of killing pathogens as a form of “pasteurization.” Corporate agribusiness has been drooling for years over just such a redefinition in order to circumvent pesky consumer warning labels and sidestep clean-up of filthy factory farm conditions. read more...
