Austerity explanations are used to transfer government assets and agency roles into private ones for the obvious benefit of the ruling One Percent. This article illustrates this trend with the current Department of Agriculture's experiment with private inspection of the meat and poultry you eat. Yes, that's right, we should turn over meat and poultry inspection to unaccountable profit oriented companies because government must cut costs.
In the name of budget-cutting, more defective and unsanitary poultry contaminated with feathers, bile and feces could make its way to consumers if the USDA’s controversial pilot project for privatized inspection in poultry slaughter plants is expanded.