The shady government launched program of SIS-C

“At SIS-C slaughterhouses, visibly diseased animals – cattle infected with measles and tapeworms, covered with abscesses – were being slaughtered. Poorly trained company inspectors were allowing shipment of beef contaminated with fecal material, hair, insects, metal shavings, urine, and vomit.”(Schlosser, Eric. “What’s In the Meat.” Fast Food Nation. Pg 207. Harper Perennial. 2005. Print. Nov 11, 2010)

The thing that interested me was the SIS-C program. It stands for the Streamlined Inspection System for Cattle. It was launched by USDA under Reagan administration. It was funny how it was started. The federal government created this plan to limit the government inspectors in the slaughterhouses to inspect meat. It was created by government to have less federal inspectors inspecting the meat every American consumes. This program led to many problems. The slaughterhouses that took part in this program were mostly the one who had E-coli contamination in their meat. All the government asked of these slaughterhouses was to do their own inspection, and have themselves follow food safety guidelines. This is totally something that was not right thing to do. The slaughterhouses already knew whenever a USDA investigator would be coming to their plant. They would just clean up after themselves, fake logs of inspections, and just ship of contaminated meat without even realizing or checking it is contaminated or not. These plants had visible problems yet the safety of our meat relied on company hired employees that were clumsy enough to let E-coli contaminated meat get to our tables.