joining us today for world view with dennis campbell is dennis campbell
editor in chief of u_k_ progressive magazine he also host worldview on
youtube youtube dot com slash world view show so does not
focused solely on the horse meat scandal but to use it take to have a different
conversation
we've now seen reports from ait kia about horse meat in their swedish
meatballs we've also seen uh... taco bell
uh... on your side of the pond with some horse meat uh... uh... positive tests
and we've also heard about some kind of almond cake
that may have had
fecal matter and
so bomb we seem to have above broadening scandal
it is broadening and and quite frankly is something that should not be uh...
terribly surprising to several of the ministers in the u_k_ government what do
you government this was made known to them two years ago huh
as a result of the the fact that they've done nothing now it is blown up into a
huge scandal and it's not something they can blame on the labor government
because well the government of david cameron has you're very consistently
uh... been focused on deregulation and uh...
moving things away from anything that might look like regulations and as a
result they've defang the power of crippling two of the uh... f_d_a_ the
food standards agency
and uh... their also because of a lot of cross-border working a lot of love
the paths that some of the horse here take your phone
enormous pain linen suit former
all soviet bloc nations such as bulgaria and romania then they come back across
border
there's been no integrity and the food chain not just in the u_k_ the across
europe
now it's not that people are terribly objected to the idea of what's needed is
a delicacy in several countries
but if it's on the tennis beat it should be beef inside the tent so let's talk
about the food standards agency so in the u_s_ the f_d_a_ regulates both
food but also pharmaceuticals
a does the f estate also have purview over both of those errors of food only
that a lot of hundred-percent serve well but i do know they are focused on food
and i think one of the
the most alarming um... aspects of of what we've seen just in the news in the
last several weeks is the fact that
assimilate the deeper sense but more antibiotics in the world
another use on livestock and in the food supply right uh... this is really
something that is the cause of great concern because
if are but without the you're starting to see of what we've had here for a
number of years the em up tomorrow so superbad
is beginning to take off and several of your hospitals it's something that
they've been working very hard to contain and and for the most part have
now
gotten the upper hand on but it is that it is a of iris
that ends up
uh... you know being transmitted in the form of a bacteria excuse me
uh... that universal's half the people who did in fact so
you're going to see more of this sort of thing drug-resistant strains of
tuberculosis now are quite common drug-resistant strains of many diseases
long you know fault to taken care of them eliminated
are coming back onto the scene so with that with the f_d_a_ we know that bear
the idea that it is some kind of
ultimately objected entity that is going to only make decision baby based on the
interest of the broad population is not true
on the drug side we've seen how money can influence the repetitive approve
approval for a variety of drugs but on the food side
we've seen a number of different things that are concerning one of them is
the approval of
uh... food additives which
they say
pose certain risks but in small doses are all k
and the subjective nature of that and whether a lot of those things are really
uh... it allowed in foods because it's big boo
mood big met big food companies that use those products for preservation or for
for
reducing cost her with whatever it may be
and also the other idea of
hiding a whole bunch of stuff under natural flavors and that the bride
a number of things that can fall under natural flavors which if people knew
about would absolutely be concerned so
that's the f_d_a_
talk a little bit about the f essay and whether those types of problems also
exist there
well that's a little to do because that you have the same competing interests of
it
whenever i hear about three different areas being food big pharma or big oil
idea quite nervous
uh... there's been a a book that's come out there in the united states and other
several
reports on that now on the the uh... amount of salt fast
and sugar that is being used in the ethical dilemma that it's now placing on
these two big food manufacturing companies there was apparently a meeting
many years ago where a senior executive i think it was a general food stood up
and said
you know we've got to start taking care
of the foods that we're producing because we're setting ourselves up
in much the same way as big tobacco is
at our house in the past with nicotine being interdicting the sort of a force
with the amount of sugar fat and salt that are put bien
get to that ultimate point where people actually buying their products
and what we've seen happening now is that they're starting to have to
pay the piper they're going to be lawsuits just like you've seen
i think in in tobacco in our audience food companies for things such as of the
city because in order to gin up taste and to create a craving for things like
fat and sugar and salt
they've been doing what they have to do
from a corporate point-of-view to sell lots of product but they're not been
focused on the health aspects of what they've been doing so it's creating a
huge dilemma for them
the f_d_a_ is sort of walking hand-in-glove with them by not coming
down and say wait a minute you've got to be you know you they they occasionally
through either then or the f_t_c_ say
when you can't claim that you know cultural killa
or if i can very desirable real fruit
fixer thats doesn't work but there may be more of these issues coming up in the
food supply
and it's good that the light is now finally being shown on this because un
everything from here to jia moses monsanto around that
people are now beginning to be very concerned about what their ingesting
and what the long-term effects are going to be about
so long story short how how much trust in people have in the fu
lead in the f_b_i_ say
or not at all right
it's a it's a complete disaster as it should be because you know you've got
the situation now
you know these the people who are supposed to be blowing the whistle when
these issues come up
where are they they've been asleep at the search
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