One of the few organization that is able to see the unnecessary hardships this bill would place on farmers is the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund issues, which notes that the cost of implementing these proposed regulation would drive many farmers off their land and lead to further consolidation of the industry.[32]
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Is this perversion of HACCP due to an innocent misunderstanding, lack of industry experience or incompetence? Or, is there something else going on?
If you follow some of Taylor's activities since he ceased (officially) serving as Monsanto's Vice President of Public Policy and the present time, you'll find that he's worked for no less than five think tanks, churning out policy recommendation and reports to support his vision of a global food system. He's also picked up an academic affiliation, becoming a research professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
As Director of the Global Food Systems Program at the Resources for the Future, a highly influential establishment think tank, Taylor has steadily worked on projects that promoted certain policy recommendations for new food safety regulations, but it is acknowledged that food safety is merely one part of his larger concern. [33]
In a short 2002 report published RFF called "Reforming Food Safety: A Model for the Future Taylor writes that "We operate within a global food system in which World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements have an important impact on the standards that govern both food imports and exports. To achieve its legitimate public health and economic objectives within this system, the United States must be an international food safety leader. [34]
To further his plan to make the US an international food safety leader, Taylor wants a pass a "law that includes a mandate and authority to pursue systematic prevention of foodborne disease from the farm to the table through HACCP-based process control or other preventive strategies. The law should make HACCP mandatory for all processing operations, unless exempt" [35]
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