The Government Can't Control Beef Recalls?

I'm sitting here watching News 12 New Jersey...

I'm watching a story on another beef recall from schools in New Jersey, and how Senator Bob Menendez is lobbying for regulation off these slaughterhouses. These places that some NJ schools has been contracting through, have been recently slaughtering sick cows. And when information about this leaked out, a recall was ordered.

One thing that Menendez said that literally made my jaw drop was how currently, the USDA has NO authority to issue a recall on tainted meat!

Does anyone understand what's going on here?!

A slaughterhouse could be using sick cows all the time, never tell anyone about it, and continue to pump it out to people like you and I, and our KIDS. And to add insult to injury, the government, whose supposed to be FOR the people, can't do a thing about it.

If the government can step in and take legal authority over Major League Baseball and go after Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens for steroids and HGH...why can't they step in and put a stop to tainted beef reaching our dinner tables?!

Is the government just allowing it to happen? If they can't and haven't stepped in to regulate the health conditions of slaughterhouses and other food processing facilities, then we all should be very weary of what we put in our mouths. Sad to say, we all gotta eat...it just sucks that what you eat may be tainted, and there's nothing you can do about it...since the government won't regulate food processing plants like they should be.