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But in this case you are essentially paying the same company extra to NOT comtaminate your food. And look at it this way - they are actually getting to sell salt water by weight for the price of meat!
It should not be allowed by law, but the food industry lobbyists have the FDA in their pockets. They are no better than the pharmaceutical companies.
Oh, I didn't quite understand what you were saying before.
Yes, I agree with your assesment of the FDA.
At Zingerman's we had all sorts of problems with the importation of really fine food products. Half the time they would reject products because they just didn't know what they were.
There is an Italian chocolate manufacurer which used to be called Cuba-Venchi after several family names, but they had to change their name to just "Venchi" because, you guessed it, the morons at Customs thought the stuff was illegaly shipped from Cuba to the US via Italy.
It didn't matter that all of their paperwork was good, etc.
Dolts.