Most of what the Government does, from training soldiers to inspecting meat, is controlled by an annual appropriation.
The nation's outmoded system for inspecting meat and poultry is about to undergo a historic transformation.
But the government is too cheap to invest in these, so federal food inspectors continue to inspect meat visually, as it rolls past on assembly lines.
There is hardly anything the Government does in 1993 the way it was done in 1906 - except inspect meat and poultry.
It seemed unnecessary, since all they did anymore was inspect meat.
This was why they gave Fender such a pleasant, private apartment on the end of a dock He inspected meat.
Among other things, these would cut the budget for inspecting meat.
She spent two years learning how to inspect meat from a retired meat inspector named Joe Dowd.
The legislation would also require the Department of Agriculture, which now inspects meat and poultry, to carry out stepped-up fish inspections and product samplings.
We should consider whether other methods for inspecting meat would be appropriate.