Gee whiz, wouldn't insisting on safer standards be something like government regulation? Isn't this like going from a free market economy to socialism? Next thing you know, they will be wanting these poor corporations to use American grown products prepared and packaged by union labor! I wonder how many lives that would save?

Excellent article. When greed (and its companions, violence and oppression) stop being the basic characteristics of food policy, along with other policies, we will start to become truly democratic. I'm libertarian, but not in the greedy anarcho-capitalist interpretation of the word. We the people must not allow ourselves to be oppressed - and that oppression can come from any concentration of power, whether it be the state or private enterprise. But in this situation, I think it is necessary to give the state power to regulate the food giants, in view of the excessive power these big corporations have taken for themselves - we can see the awful results, can't we?