Know before you eat or drink.

                                                                                                    Haruna,
                        
                        If you’re eating, you might want to come back to this email later.
                        
                        For anyone who enjoys an occasional chicken burrito or a traditional Thanksgiving turkey, you may soon be getting some bile, scabs, feathers or feces in your diet, too.
                        
                        I repeat: You may soon be consuming chicken feces.
                        
                        Join Public Citizen and Food & Water Watch in calling on Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to abandon a dangerous plan to privatize poultry inspection.
                        
                        Since our founding 41 years ago, Public Citizen has stepped in when corporate profits are put before people’s health and safety.
                        
                        For our latest campaign, we’re partnering with our great friends at Food & Water Watch to say “No!” to a U.S. Department of Agriculture plan to let the poultry industry regulate itself.
                        
                        Ask someone who lives near the Gulf of Mexico if it worked to let BP “regulate” itself.
                        
                        Ask someone who had a heart attack after taking Vioxx if it worked to let Merck “regulate” itself.
                        
                        Ask someone whose car rolled over if it worked to let Ford and Firestone “regulate” themselves.
                        
                        Do you want to trust the safety of the food your family eats to another industry with an insatiable profit motive?
                        
                        Take action with Public Citizen and Food & Water Watch today — tell the USDA not to turn over the job of protecting us from unsafe poultry products to an industry it is supposed to monitor.
                        
                        This is a game of chicken we can’t afford to lose.
                        
                                                                                                                        


                                    


                                    
Onward,
                                    
                                    Robert Weissman
                                    President, Public Citizen




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