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Commentary: The federal government is failing Americans on food safety when it comes to pork

Hogs rest in the swine barn at the Iowa County Fair on July 12, 2018, in Marengo, Iowa.

For decades, independent scientists have been working to expose how the federal government fails to protect citizens from unsafe meat and eggs. Well over 1 million Americans fall ill annually due to salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens in animal products. Now, in a distressing turn of events, the Biden administration has sided with Big Pork in an effort to prevent states from enacting common-sense standards to protect their

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