Can we learn from the Europeans….

….one of our readers thinks so, though he asks to remain anonymous because he works for you-know-who.    Here’s the link:

http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Regulation/US-review-gleans-ideas-from-European-food-safety-reforms

My own jaded view is that this becomes one more weapon to beat up on the little guy.

If Europeans experience fewer food-related illnesses, I suspect it’s not because of bureaucratic efficiency.  Everything there, from farms to processing, operates on a much smaller scale.  It’s the huge packing houses and the factory farms in the United States that cause our problems.

And a corrupt system that keeps us looking the “other” way.

Further,  one-size agricultural rules are too often written in the bowels of Big Ag and Big Chemical and regurgitated by bureaucrats indiscriminately.  One thing the Europeans have done, so far, is hold off Monsanto’s Genetically Modified seeds.

I’ve come to believe our only protection—as a world—is to think smaller and less “coordinated”.  At least we’ll kill fewer people.