First, Let me tell you that i live way out in the country. All the beef,pork and chicken that i eat is raised by local farmers.These animals are treated with respect, they all free range or graize.They have plenty of acerage to roam on.They are fed with quality grains and hay and are whats known as content or happy animals.They live fairly long lives and are butchered as humainly as possible. The FDA does not control my food chain. And if you are lucky enough to eat local farm raised meat then the FDA isnt controling your food source either. However the millions of people who live in the city, who buy from mass chain supermarkets such as walmart or sams club ect. are buying FDA controlled meat. Also,  ANY fast food chain like McDonalds is serving the same FDA regulated meat...Now to answer your question Caniswalensis..Because of the mass demand for meat of all types there are very large meat farming processing plants. They are regulated by the FDA(ergo the government).The problem is that much like BP and the oil spill, the FDA employees are bought or way to cozy with the heads of these meat processors. So many rules, regulations and just commom decency are overlooked and ignored. Now lets look at the conditions in the processing plants. First the animals are not treated with any respect.They stand in tightly caged in areas all their life.Most of the time stand up to their bellies in their own crap. Standing in there own crap for weeks or months at a time has caused rampant Ecoli. They are treated so inhumnaly in these places, that that alone makes for depressed or unhappy animals.Secondly thier food source...Corn is fed to all animals, however  because of the great demand for corn scientists genetically altered corn so it will produce large amounts per acre. However it has been proven that genetically altered corn is high in fat and cholesterol. All of the giant processing plants feed their animals this corn to fatten them.The animals recieve very little hay. Hay is very important because it helps curb diseases like Ecoli..The genetically altered corn also causes high levels of cholesterol in meat....Now lets look at the happy  or content animal thing. Scientists have also proven beyond shadow of doubt that content animals have lower amounts of fat and cholesterol and that also the meat is just more healthy. When looking at depressed or processing plant meat, there are high levels of hormones that due not exist in happy animals....Due to Ecoli outbreaks at the processing plants, large amounts of antibiotics and steroids are used on the animals. They are butchered not long after this,remnants of the antibiotics and steroids remain in the meat until eaten. In one processing plant in particular, they had a large outbreak of Ecoli, They had already butchered and processed a lot of animals there answer to fix this problem wasnt to stop butchering and to give the animals more hay. Instead they decided to spray the meat down with Amonia. The FDA never did anything about this and they never shut that plant down. Many people every year get Ecoli, and get really sick and some die. Many different scientists and farners and other notable minds say we could easily have an Ecoli attack from one of those processing plants. The meat moves out so fast that if the strain of Ecoli was powerful enough, hundreds of thousands could die before anything was done.. Some say its not if, but when..If this were to happen the FDA would act so slowly that many would die, if they acted at all. We have already had outbreaks of Ecoli, in one case a very young child died do to eating a hamburger. The parents traced the burger back to a processing plant but the FDA would not shut the plant down or investigate. The parents went before congress. their fight still continues....In a slightly different direction. As corrupt as the FDA is, If they wanted create a meat shortage, they easily could.  When we look at control, in the early 70s,  McDonalds started getting very cozy with the FDA. That was the beginning of creating the mass processing plants, do to McDonalds need for a mass amount of meat. In the 70s, 75% of meat was grown by local farmers. Today 75% of the meat in this nation comes from processing plants. During the 70s many of the small farmers were pursecuted by the FDA to the point in which the quit selling meat to people like McDonalds. At the same time a blind eye was turned toward the largely growing processing plants. Also at about this time the meat cutters union was broken. This aided the large processing plants as the could now work workers harder and pay them less.One last thing here The FDA is also responsible for monitoring prescription drug companies. However do to the fact that some senators own controling interests in those companies and the drug companies are very cozy with the FDA, we have had many drugs used on the American public that have not been tested nearly enough..thats also led to a mass of antidepressants....(<but thats a discussion for another time)...Ive not nearly hit all the basses on government control of our food. But i hope you see the picture.. Sorry to all that i took so much space, but it takes some explaining on a complex issue..

If this spill continues to grow and moves up the east coast. The financial backlash will keep us in recession,or worse. This catastrophe is just getting ramped up. Also this crisis has removed a lot of the seafood food source. The government will now have some control on the seafood food source. They will exploit this as they exploit everything. It wil go down the same road as the Pork, Beef,and Chicken industry. When the government fully controls all of the food we eat,they control us.