The USDA Publishes Final Rule to Deregulate Meat Inspection, Jeopardizing Food Safety
(World News Science)

Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a final regulation that privatizes and deregulates swine slaughter inspection, ignoring repeated calls by food safety, labor and animal welfare groups to include better safeguards for consumers, workers, and animals. Not only does the rule transfer work once performed by USDA inspectors to private slaughterhouse employees and allow slaughter lines to run at unlimited...