Let them eat e coli. Trump's war on food safety regulations.

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http://www.salon.com/2016/09/15/trump-targets-the-fda-food-police-calls-for-elimination-of-food-safety-regulations-in-new-tax-plan/


But perhaps most shockingly, Trump proposed slashing the power of the Food and Drug Administration.

“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,” the Trump campaign fact sheet complained.

“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 fact sheet continued. “It also greatly increased inspections of food ‘facilities,’ and levies new taxes to pay for this inspection overkill.”

Not sure what the animals roaming thing is about unless he means not allowing animals into the spinach fields to poop on the spinach - yeah, hey, that is definitely regulatory overreach, right?

Salon could have fact checked this a bit better and pointed out that Trump is confusing the FDA and the USDA on some of these regulations but hey, it is Trump, after all.