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U.S. GOVERNMENT INSPECTIONS AND AUCTIONS
Local and state restaurant inspection agencies may too often be allowing the restaurants in your city, town or neighborhood to get away with violating national safety standards when it comes to cooking, cooling and refrigeration recommendations!
Government inspections on beef, poultry, fish and even the inspection of foods and vegetables from other countries may be mere token, lackluster efforts when it comes to protecting consumers. U.S. taxpayers may not be getting their money's worth in these critical areas. Critics contend there may be little thorough protection from deadly disease spread by unsanitary processing conditions and improper handling.
Of course, as usual, the U.S. government and Big Business claim any problems are just likely to be strictly isolated incidents and not the norm. As in business, the government spokespersons also tend to protect their own! The only really helpful advice here maybe is for consumers to become vegetarian, not that this practice is foolproof either.
Skeptics feel the so-called surprise inspections at meatpacking and food processing plants may possibly be just a joke because once the government inspectors leave the premises of these plants the food processors and meatpackers may eventually go right back to many of their unsanitary, unhealthy and or inhumane practices and profiteering ways!
Concerning government auctions the low cost, cheap prices advertised on expensive confiscated property may rarely, if ever, even exist anymore! The auctioneers may advertise expensive sports cars for just a few thousand dollars but most of these kinds of deals are unheardof these days unless it is some kind of "loss leader" merchandise used just to try and get you to show up at the auction.
Nowadays, auctions of government confiscated merchandise will advertise heavily so large crowds will show up and when the bidding frenzy begins you may get "suckered" into paying more than the goods are even worth by "bidding shills" placed throughout the audience by the auctioneers used to keep raising the bidding prices higher and higher, especially if you do not know the true value of the merchandise you are bidding on.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CNBC-TV STEALS AND DEALS 11/12/96
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