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1-1/2 HOUR PARTY BY THE SAME FOLKS WHO ARE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY OUR 10 MINUTE BREAKS...
AND ALL I GOT WAS...
F$I$ 2007 PERFORMANCE BONU$E$:
Phil
Derfler -- $14,500
Dan Engeljohn -- $19,000
Cheryl Hicks -- $13,000
Ron Hicks -- $19,000
William James -- $12,000
Ronald Jones -- $11,500
Loren Lange -- $13,000
Carol Maczka -- $19,000
Patrick McCaskey -- $12,500
Karen Messmore -- $15,000
Billy Milton -- $15,000
Terri Nintemann -- $17,000
Ken Petersen -- $16,500
John Prucha -- $8,125
Bryce Quick -- $20,939
Judy Riggins -- $17,000
Jane Roth -- $14,000
Perfecto Santiago -- $14,000
Bill Smith -- $19,000
Karen Stuck -- $8,000
Armia Tawadrous -- $13,000
TOTAL: -- $308,064
SOURCE:
TONY CORBO, FOOD & WATER WATCH (FOIA REQUEST)
www.foodandwaterwatch.org
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See FELICIA NESTOR of Food & Water Watch on CNN's Lou Dobbs: |
Mother
Jones Exclusive:
Cops
and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups
"We've
worked with some of the targeted groups on food safety issues over the
years."
Felicia Nestor, foodandwaterwatch.org
I
Feel Better Already!
Deal reached to compensate feds for unused sick leave
January
29, 2008
The
Bill: HR 5578
AFL-CIO
Death on the Job Study 2008
Animal
Welfare Institute
Slaughter Report 2008
"CALL
THE UNION"
F.B.I.
Raids Office of Special Counsel
The
New York Times | May 7, 2008
President
Bush welcomes CSI Kenneth Hubbard to Oval Office
Montgomery
Herald
Hands In My Pockets
Meat Inspector Furloughs Would Be One Day a Week, USDA Official Says (CQ Roll Call)
Food inspectors see problems with computer system
(The Washington Times)
"Stan Painter, an inspector and the head of a national union representing government food inspectors, said the problems are widespread."
Guidance for Shutdown Furloughs
(U.S. Office of Personnel Management)
Tell USDA: NO EQUESTRATION SEQUESTRATION!
Meat groups to USDA: Continue plant inspections
(The Hagstrom Report)
Horse meat scandal: Twitter's best and worst jokes
(The Telegraph) (UK)
Cuts to abattoir meat checks 'will be the next food scandal'
(The Guardian | The Observer) (UK)
Horse Meat in Food Stirs a Furor in the British Isles
(New York Times)
Lasagna Products Test Positive for Horsemeat in Britain
(New York Times)
An Insider's Perspective on USDA's Problematic Poultry Rule
(Huffington Post)
Playing chicken on food safety? (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Is USDA playing chicken with chickens? (Los Angeles Times)
Consumer Advocate Seeks Poultry Inspection Gig (Food Safety News)
Poultry Inspectors Protest Inspection Proposal at USDA
(Food Safety News)
Poultry inspection change jeopardizes public (Des Moines Register)
Editorial: Check the chicks: Don't skimp on poultry inspection
(Houston Chronicle)
USDA: Don't Play Chicken With My Family's Safety (AFGE)
Food Safety Inspectors Object to Allowing Poultry Companies to do Their Own Inspections (AllGov)
Debate Heats Up Over Poultry Inspection Proposal (Food Safety News)
Forget pink slime: We’ve moved on to poultry (Times Union)
ANGRY OVER BIRDS
Outrage at feds’ plan to ax poultry inspectors and speed output
(The Daily)
Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse -- Literally (OMB Watch)
Speed Inspection of Poultry Sounds Like Trouble (Slate)
Unions, consumer groups protest USDA plan to relax poultry inspections
(Federal Times)
Plan to Let Poultry Plants Inspect Birds Is Criticized (New York Times)
Budget cuts as back-door deregulation (Washington Post)
USDA considering privatizing meat/poultry inspection! (Daily Kos)
Tell the USDA: Don't privatize meat inspection (Daily Kos)
Industrial poultry about to get even crappier — literally (Grist)
USDA Inspectors: Government 'HIMP' Plan is a Threat to Food Safety (Food Integrity Campaign)
Stan Painter discusses HIMP on Federal News Radio broadcast
Yikes! USDA Proposes Privatizing Poultry Inspection
(Food Integrity Campaign)
AFGE Speaks Against Proposed Poultry Inspection System
Submit comments about HIMP proposed rule to regulations.gov
New Poultry Inspection Rule Risks Public Health (AFL-CIO)
The U.S.D.A. has a dirty little secret, and it can literally make you sick
(The Westside Gazette)
Consumer Group Opposes USDA’s Privatization of Poultry Inspection
(Food & Water Watch)
Sign Petition!
Keep Poultry Processing Safe (Care2)
HIMP: approved, rejected, modified and still embattled - Meat & Poultry Online
"Under the industry self-inspection program, federal meat inspectors inspect fewer than .01 percent of carcasses –"
Thomas Billy, former FSIS Administrator: "Fact: USDA inspectors inspect and make a critical appraisal of each carcass.
AMER FED GOVT EMPL v VENEMAN ANN M.
"The USDA has a ready response, one we find convincing. Inspection of the viscera "is not necessary..."
"DON'T PANIC!"
WHO - Avian influenza FAQs
"It spreads very rapidly through poultry flocks, causes disease affecting multiple internal organs."
Leave Directive MOU
REGISTER TO VOTE
Fake Veterinarian Confronted By Channel 2 [Atlanta]
Horses Seized in Roane County WV
To
abolish inspection, Congress must abolish the Acts,
or re-write them....
" Congress should enact comprehensive, uniform, and risk-based food safety
legislation."
Sustained
Grievance on Plant Breaks
MOU
on Negotiated Grievance Procedure Timeframes
Stan
Painter & Tony Corbo Quoted in CNN Story:
Lawmaker:
Nation's food system is collapsing
CNN.com
| May 14, 2008
STAN TESTIFIES
TO CONGRESS
April 17, 2008
After
the Beef Recall:
Exploring Greater Transparency in the Meat Industry
FALLOUT:
|
The Press-Enterprise Union head claims USDA tried to intimidate employees ABC News
Wall Street Journal
LATimes
|
A
DOUBLE!!
Both NJC Chair Stan Painter & Vice Chair Trent Berhow quoted in-the-news:
U.S.
food safety policy faulted
Source:
baltimoresun.com
Jonathan D. Rockoff | Sun reporter
March 3, 2008
Stan
Painter in the news...
Safety
net may fail U.S. meat
Source:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ajc.com
By Gillian Flaccus
Associated Press
2/22/08
The
Inspection Wars
Now
it's 'Public
Health-Based'
inspection!
PHiB:
(noun)
white lie
PHiB:
(intransitive
verb) tell white lies
Similar to phishing
(fake emails) and pharming (fake websites),
phibbing uses sophisticated Internet technologies
to launch political Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Factual text in
electronic documents is often cloaked in pages of extraneous content,
or phlap.
Example of document with phlap removed: phib.pdf
Original
document with phlap:
phib2.pdf
BETWEEN THE HEADLINES...
1906-2006 THE
JUNGLE NEVER WENT OUT-OF-PRINT
THE JUNGLE PDF 35 MB
THE JUNGLE Wikipedia
The oxymoron you can eat:
RIF-BASED
INSPECTION SLIPS THROUGH THE BACK DOOR
SURPRISE RBI CLAUSES PLANTED IN OFFICIAL EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
EVALUATIONS
Formal Appraisals Weigh Heavily on Promotions
Food safety coalitition stunned: "This is
a bunch of crap"
Tony Corbo, Food and Water Watch
Performance
Evaluation System Q&As
"FOOD
SECURITY"
Monsanto
Hijacks Safe Food Coalition
- PR Watch
"...former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Carol
Tucker-Foreman, is the coordinator, spokesperson and lobbyist for
the Safe Food Coalition, and therein lies the rub..."
Labeling
Issues, Revolving Doors, rBGH, Bribery and Monsanto
- SourceWatch
"In March 1994,
Taylor was publicly exposed
as a former lawyer for the Monsanto corporation for seven
years..."
Michael
Taylor Named Director of RFF’s Center for Risk Management
-
Resources for the Future
"Prior
to coming to RFF, Taylor was Vice President
for Public Policy at Monsanto...In addition,
he served as Administrator of the USDA Food Safety
and Inspection Service..."
CROSS
CONTAMINATION
Focus
On: Chicken - FSIS
"This can occur if raw poultry or its juices contact cooked food
or foods that will be eaten raw such as salad."
"Most foodborne illness outbreaks are a result of contamination from
food handlers."
Interview:
Carol Tucker-Foreman
- PBS FRONTLINE - Modern Meat
"We have 5,000 deaths
a year attributed to food poisoning from common bacteria. Many of these
are traced to meat and poultry..."
Implementing an Integrated, Risk-Based Food Safety System
- Michael R. Taylor - Resources for the Future
"...the National Academy of Sciences in 1998 recommended unifying the system and making it more risk-based..."
American Meat Institute
Resources for the Future
Thomas Billy
Caroline Smith DeWaal
Lester M. Crawford
Catherine E. Woteki, USDA
Richard J. Durbin, U.S. Senate
Ensuring
Safe Food: From Production to ConsumptionNational Academy of Sciences (1998)
"Changes in Federal Statutes that Would Foster and Enhance Science-based Strategies: Eliminate continuous inspection system for meat and poultry and replace with a science-based approach."
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