Post 3: Chpts.12 & 13

Personally, my favorite part of this week's reading was the paragraph in chapter 12 about the USDA's regulations and rules. I found it kind of funny, but rather ridiculous that there are certain things that are strictly required, and others that are actually of importance, are simply looked over. One of their requirements is that every processing facility have a bathroom exclusively for a USDA inspector to use. However there are no set rules or levels for pathogens or bacteria in meat. If there were strict levels, then that would require the USDA to actually have to keep track of every single farm and the cleanliness of it, and start recalling meat from all over the country.
This shows me that our government and corporations are lazy and selfish. They don't care about the quality of food that society is eating or our health and well-being. I guarantee that there are numerous diseases and bacteria in much of the food that we consume on a regular basis, and it wouldn't take much effort to control it. Yet, the only things that these people care about are making profit and money off of whatever and whoever they can. They don't want to take the extra time and money to regulate what kinds of horrible things are going into what we eat. Obviously it shows how much they care, that they can require a special bathroom for themselves at each facility, but not make a strict limit on what goes into our food. I don't know about you, but it makes me really mad, and really grossed out.