Keeping the Blowhards on the Right Honest on Obama and the FDA
A second Sunday in a row working in the yard with WTVN-610 in the background. Between 12 and 3 p.m. on Sundays is a show called the Radio Deli with Dirk Thompson. Thompson is a Libertarian and is actually quite funny. When he’s not on the air he says he spends his week in his “sub-basement, wrapped in tin foil.”
There are a lot of things Dirk could be banging on Washington against but President Barack Obama’s bolstering of the federal Food and Drug Administration isn’t one of them.
Yesterday, Obama delivered his entire weekly address on food safety and the leadership of the FDA. Thompson railed for the final hour of his show today about several things, one of them being “more regulation” by the FDA. I would encourage Mr. Thompson to follow the link above and read what the president said. He didn’t say there were a bunch of new rules being written. The main thing he said was that we will increase the number of inspectors – a number that consumer advocates have said has been woefully inadequate for years.
Here are the three policy points the president made regarding FDA yesterday:
- Close a loophole in regulation which allows some diseased cows into the food supply.
- Modernize the FDA’s laboratories.
- Increase the number of inspectors out there looking for the likes of bad peanut butter and lead-tainted products from China.
Now reasonably, can anyone argue with this?
