Be it incompetence, or pre-meditated neglect the FDA has failed us in recent years. They refuse farmers the right to test all cows for mad cow disease. They have allowed flawed pharmaceuticals such as Hefren and Vioxx to enter the public mainstream at the cost of public health. The FDA officially supports the genetic engineering of seeds with very little research despite growing skepticism regarding the quality of foods yielded from these seeds. In addition they do not allow foods, which are not genetically engineered, to label themselves as such. The FDA is now responsible for making our decisions for us and the decisions they have chosen are questionable. Regulation standards have not been enforced bringing forth a whole new host of food precautions. It seems that every month there are new warnings about common foods making people sick: cantaloupe, sprouts, spinach, and tomatoes are a few that come to mind. How is that acceptable?