April 30, 2007
Comment on Monday's editorials
America has too few food police
Warning: Read this and you may never wish to eat again. Not only is the FDA failing to check U.S. crops, it rarely looks at imports.
The wheat gluten from China that is believed to have killed and sickened pets just as easily could have found its way onto America's dinner table. The Food and Drug Administration would have been just as slow to react and trace the tainted substance, because there is no system in place to police food ingredients.
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Grant state's natives their rightful place
Virginia's tribes are forced to give up potential sovereign rights to gain long overdue recognition.
Nearly 400 years to the day that English settlers landed in Virginia, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee finally recognized that people were here long before the tall ships crossed the Atlantic -- and, of modern-day importance, that Native American tribes still exist within the commonwealth's boundaries.
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