Q&A: Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat and professor at New York University's Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, on the destruction of the FDA.
Mother Jones: Of all the things the Bush administration leaves behind, what will be the easiest, and hardest, things to fix?
Marion Nestle: In my area, three issues leap to mind: the systematic destruction of the FDA, leaving our food-safety system in peril; the expanding income gap between rich and poor that has so increased food insecurity; and the failure to address environmental causes of childhood obesity. The first two will be the hardest to fix. The FDA needs not only money, but talented and politically independent personnel. The rising income gap requires a major restructuring of tax and welfare policies and renegotiation of the social contract between rich and poor. The obesity problem requires limits on food marketing to children; school lunches tied to instruction about nutrition, health, and food production; and development of supervised play areas and community resources such as bicycle paths. All of those ought to be relatively easy, given political will.
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I don't think it's workable, to go through the rank of federal employees looking for competence. I think the Obama administration should take a scatter-shot approach, and just discharge ALL (appointed) personnel left from Bush II, and pick people who can hit the ground running to replace them.
Not only the FDA will have to be remade. The EPA and FEMA (of course), and especially the Justice Department, will have to be revamped almost from the top down.
To do otherwise is to leave the agencies in the shape they've devolved to under George II: internally divided, and unable to perform even the most rudimentary of their proper functions.
Bush tried to destroy the government, and McCain was slated to perform the coup de grace.
Let's not waste time picking through the ashes they've left us, but set those agencies back on the right track on January 21st, 2009.
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