editorials

Reality check on USDA’s claims about its plan to privatize poultry inspection

cmonforton | January 28, 2014

Several recent newspaper editorials have gotten under USDA’s skin. Editors at the Charlotte Observer, Raleigh News Observer, Bellingham (WA) Herald and Gaston (NC) Gazette are skeptical that the USDA’s plan to “modernize” the poultry slaughter inspection process is a wise move. In “Fed's proposed shift in poultry rules troubling,” the Charlotte Observer’s  editorial board wrote this on January 20: “Warning horns should blast full force around the Obama administration approving a change in federal law to replace most federal inspectors on poultry processing lines with company workers who would…