Donald Trump has identified another very important form of big government that needs to be stamped out: food safety. Trump is pledging to roll back Food and Drug Administration regulations:
“The FDA Food Police, which dictate how the federal government expects farmers to produce fruits and vegetables and even dictates the nutritional content of dog food,” it read.
“The rules govern the soil farmers use, farm and food production hygiene, food packaging, food temperatures and even what animals may roam which fields and when,” the statement continued. "It also greatly increased inspections of food 'facilities,' and levies new taxes to pay for this inspection overkill."
Damn them for monitoring food production hygiene! Who gave the government the right to come between the citizens and the E. coli that should be rightfully theirs? Consider this a firm campaign pledge by Donald Trump: more food poisoning for all.
By the way, the Centers for Disease Control estimate that more than 3,000 people are killed each year and another 127,000 are hospitalized by foodborne illness. But Trump would probably do away with the CDC, too, so we wouldn’t know how many were killed under his new no-food-police policy.