Mystified is more the word.....just like the FDA is. In any event though it does sound like the company at the center of it could be the BP of the egg industry.
Ok, now I got it.... As a business manager of food products (Citrus, Peaches) there is nothing more frightening than to have a recall on a food product. Thank the Lord we have never had any such issues and I hope that we do not but it is a "knife in the heart" if it does happen to you. Ask the Florida tomato industry about being wrongfully accused of an ecoli or salmonella outbreak. They lost upwards of $100 million when they were chosen as the culprit a couple years ago and it turned out to be Mexican peppers that was the problem. Its a little like crying wolf on NBC or CBS as videotape of your product is shown every half hour and then oops, oh it really wasn't you.... :shock: The government recently wanted to tighten up on Good Agricultural Practices and their approach was to go to the Walmarts and Kroegers of the country and ask them if they were interested in certifiying the food that they receive. And by the way this would not come at any cost to you the grocery chain, once that was heard the hands were raised up in agreement. What we want to do is "make" the farmers now be certified under new governmental regulations and we want you the grocery chains to agree to this and not accept anything that is not certified... It all sounds great and nobody wants to make your customers sick...Right!!! Well what they did was institute new rules that are layers upon layers deep of pure beauracratic doo doo....This in turn set up new businesses that offered how to become certified by folks that left the government and went into the private sector. Money is no issue to these new rules and regulations, after all you must have money because your farming right.... So I now pay a person who knows all the layers of regulations $350 an hour to give me mock inspections and tell me what to purchase and have hanging on the wall of my packing house. This same person walks the 3,000 acres of land we farm on and tells me that sorry you can't have any deer, wild hogs, hawks and or anything else that may lay a turd in your field. If you do the inspector will not certify you and in turn you cannot sell any produce to the sweet and innocent grocery chains... So at this point I look around at the deer, wild hogs, hawks and other natural occuring wildlife that inhabits 3,000 acres and wonder what I am going to do.... RC
So Ralph, you mean to tell us that you didn't get the letter from your congressman telling you how much better off your life and our country is as a result of his efforts to take care of you? :lol:
I must have missed that letter from my congressman, my gosh how can I have been so critical when I was at fault for missing his letter... Or better yet it is election time in the Sunshine State I can just watch and listen to my favorite wanna be elective servants on TV to find out how good they are going to treat me....Lord knows they are on ten minutes of every fifteen minutes of air time.... :x RC
I have found that a locked gate rectify's most situations like this... 8) Honestly I have much more profound affection for wildlife than the bureaucratic doo doo I get from government...It doesn't stink as bad... RC