In Their Own Words — Hitt

— “Meat inspector whistleblowers have a long list of concerns about what happens when the industry is allowed to police itself, and the public is paying attention.  Letting the industry inspect itself and allowing these serious threats to food integrity are far from what the modern-day consumer demands.  Indeed, our government needs to catch up with the times.”

Amanda Hitt, Director of the Food Integrity Campaign, a program of the Government Accountability Project, on the USDA’s intention to expand a high-speed inspection model used in poultry into pork.  Click here for more.

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