Origins of Our Food Crisis

How did we end up in this "tainted" food crisis? Here's one perspective on how it has happened. Paul Krugman, writing in the New York Times June 13, 2008, writes, ". . . there always seems to be at least one food-safety crisis in the headlines — tainted spinach, poisonous peanut butter and, currently, the attack of the killer tomatoes. The declining credibility of U.S. food regulation has even led to a foreign-policy crisis. ...

"... failure to regulate effectively isn’t just bad for consumers, it’s bad for business. And in the case of food, what we need to do now — for the sake of both our health and our export markets — is to go back to the way it was after Teddy Roosevelt, when the Socialists took over. It’s time to get back to the business of ensuring that American food is safe."

Bad Cow Disease By Paul Krugman