The Bush administration eroded that progress, a process Republicans started under Reagan, slashing the amount of food inspectors and placing a former cattle industry lobbyist at the helm of the Agriculture Department. This weakening of food regulations became apparent in the 2007 E. coli outbreak. Spinach became contaminated with E. coli when exposed to cattle farming waste. The outbreak killed three and injured over 200 in 26 states. Food regulations had been so weakened that the unsafe cattle farming was not properly inspected and early knowledge of the bacteria was not reported. The meat industry has set itself up as the gold-standard for production, but much like Sinclair prophesied, their methods of production are solely based on money not
The Bush administration eroded that progress, a process Republicans started under Reagan, slashing the amount of food inspectors and placing a former cattle industry lobbyist at the helm of the Agriculture Department. This weakening of food regulations became apparent in the 2007 E. coli outbreak. Spinach became contaminated with E. coli when exposed to cattle farming waste. The outbreak killed three and injured over 200 in 26 states. Food regulations had been so weakened that the unsafe cattle farming was not properly inspected and early knowledge of the bacteria was not reported. The meat industry has set itself up as the gold-standard for production, but much like Sinclair prophesied, their methods of production are solely based on money not