This week Republicans made a Pledge to America in a bid to win votes in the mid-term elections. The GOP promised to indulge the rich with tax breaks and penalize the middle class with rescinded health care benefits and eliminated regulations protecting workers. When Republicans ran Herbert Hoover, they pledged a “chicken in every pot.” They gave the U.S. the Great Depression instead. The most recent Republican president gave the U.S. the Great Recession, and the GOP has responded by downsizing its promise to America. This time it’s just an egg — a rotten egg hurled at the middle class.

Weekly Pulse: Rotten Eggs, Drowsy Doctors, and Expensive Insurance

Your weekly food news update from Aunt Toby.

The FDA and AAFCO cooperate to regulate the safety of animal feeds.
Animal feeds such as poultry manure and cattle manure.
Other things may be mixed in with the manure.

The FDA with other entities regulates the feed fed to food animals.
The FDA with other entities regulates some of the feed mills that produce the feed. Other ‘farmers’ who operate feed mills may be exempt from inspection. Introduction to food animal feed regulations.

The human toll of salmonella in eggs according to the CDC Centers for Disease Control). The FDA rulemaking process concerning the prevention and control of Salmonella in the egg production and processing industry.

The FDA says recently enacted regulations might have prevented the Salmonella outbreak of 2010. What parts of the regulations might have prevented the outbreak?. Are there unnecessary delays in enacting these regulations? What might have been left out?

And it’s another glorious day in Upstate New York (but only for a moment; Accuweather sez that the last half of August and the first half of September is going to be nasty..just in time for the munchkins to go back to school in classrooms with no AC. Lovely). We are now in the part of the summer here where the gardens are in full ‘pick it right now before it grows legs and gallops away’ mode. So – to the news!

Peanut Corp of America shipped product – for the money.

Is Kellogg’s really out of line, or no? There’s definitely more than one viewpoint on the matter.