am I the only one not "surprised" by Thompson's food safety remarks?

[jburton]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041203/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/thompson_letter_text_1

I mean, I took an elective class in food safety my senior year in college 12 years ago, and as lame as it was we learned all about the weaknesses in the food "safety" system. Basically 25% of the US economy is related to food. Is it a big surprise that is where "they" would hit us?

So now everybody is "surprised" Tommy admitted it? Well, GOLLY!! He only had such a stellar record on protecting Flu Vaccine shortages....or...maybe not.

Nevermind...I guess.

[The Doctor.]

1. This has been said by the CDC before as well -

I'm not surprised.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. He is almost DARING

the terrarists to strike though... I mean anybody payng attention KNEW this, but still

[splat]

3. Food is a wider threat than airplane safety, which gets the bucks n/t

[illflem]

5. I work in ag research

Homeland security warned us a couple years ago that al Queda was intent on disrupting the food supply by introducing exotic diseases and pests. This was according to documents supposedly found in Afghanistan. There have been several seizures of infected plant materials destined for the US since then. Right now there is a aphid that somehow made it way to the heartland that carries a virus that is playing havoc with soybeans. No one knows where it came from. In two years it has spread to several states. Mainstream media doesn't report this due to the panic that might result.
Thompson said nothing new.

[jburton]

7. I guess that's what I'm saying

It's nothing new.

Last holiday I drove to my aunt's house in the "Breadbasket of America" (Iowa) and basically it's a bunch of corn fields and chemical (Monsanto) tanks. And the occasional dirt airplane runway.

[Contrary1]

4. Not to worry...

Super-Shrub will protect us Merkans!

[auntAgonist]

6. but it's HARD work

[erniesam]

8. Tommy is right, after four years of Bush gutting and neutering the USDA

FDA we are all at risk. I am more concerned about contamination of food by corporate assholes than terrorists.

[Starlight]

9. I think these crazy neocon terrorists are a far bigger threat to us

than any foreign terrorists. They'd nuke their own mother if they could make a buck doing it. :nuke: