Petition launched against food safety sell-off

As the meat scandal deepens, Barnet activists have launched a timely petition against privatisation of environmental health and trading standards. Sign it at http://www.avaaz.org/
en/petition/Stop_the_privatisation_of_Regulatory_Services/?wfNutbb
  Meanwhile UNISON has published far-reaching investigation called 'The Damage' into the impact of the government’s austerity measures on both services.
http://www.unison.org.uk/asppresspack/pressrelease_view.asp?id=2966

Cutting meat inspectors to the bone is a recipe for horsemeat

In 1906 the left wing American writer Upton Sinclair published his classic novel ‘The Jungle’ which exposed the rotten and unhygienic working conditions in the US meat packing industry. It caused a sensation and literally within a few months the Federal Meat Inspection Act was passed.