Republicans don't care if your food is safe or not

Daily Kos has a great entry today that poitns to legislation, blocked by the Republicans, which would have made our food safer so maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't have to worry about things like mad cow disease.

At present, the United States inspects less than 2% of all imported food ... The administration has yet to respond to Mr. Obey's very detailed critique of its spending priorities on homeland security. If the White House believes that his numbers and analysis are wrong, it needs to say so and provide a substantive response to his complaints.

Of course, the administration didn't.