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Food Groups

By now, you have all probably heard stories about the Bush Administration enacting regulations in the last few months of the year so that they take effect before he leaves office and creates a lasting legacy, rules that will tend to increase particulate emissions by power plants, make endangered species less so so that they end up more so, exchange government land that miners have already mined for fresh government land to mine to their hearts content, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

There are also other regulations that have been enacted that don't get the media attention that they probably should. Who wants to read through thousands and thousands and thousands of pages in the Federal Register with its single-spaced, two-column, 4-point type with 2-point type footnotes taking up half the page?

Here's an example:
In estimating acute dietary exposure, EPA used food consumption information from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1994-1996 and 1998 Nationwide Continuing Surveys of Food Intake by Individuals (CSFII). The following assumptions were made for the acute exposure assessments: A Tier 3, acute probabilistic dietary exposure assessment was conducted for all supported food uses and drinking water.

Really, how do you know what your federal government is doing, especially the executive branch that has been granted vast rule-making authority by the Congress. Rule. Making. Authority. The rules are actually laws because Congress says that the executive branch agencies can do that.

Did you know, for example, that the U.S. Department of Agriculture invented a new food pyramid? Of course, you did. That was a few years ago. A big hype job was started to introduce it to the American public. The USDA is, however, making rules about stuff all the time; and unless you read the regulations, you never really realize what the heck is going on.

But you have come here for a reason -- you have a thirst for knowledge. You lust for new information. I appreciate that. I look high and low for new and important information to slake your thirst for knowledge.

The USDA, as a part of these "midnight" regulations that the Bush Administration is foisting on the American public, has actually introduced a new food group in an obscure 2-point type footnote in the Federal Register. The USDA probably doesn't even realize it. I think some bored lawyer in the USDA stuck it in -- and since nobody ever reads this shit, it becomes official. It's a dietary law for all Americans.

If you want to be healthy, you must have at least three 1/2-ounce portions of the new food group per day -- The WONKA Group, including SweeTARTS Squeez Wild Cherry.

Posted by Bill at December 19, 2008 03:08 PM