House GOP Slashes Food Safety Funding Because ‘The Private Sector Self-Polices’

The GOP demonstrates its utter disregard for public welfare by voting to strip $87 million from the new food safety law, which seeks to implement more vigorous inspections of domestic and imported food products. Such blind devotion to the food industry and its lobbyists is astounding. 
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/17/247461/house-gop-food-safety-self-polices/