Joe Pitts: “At the end of this month, Medicaid will turn 50 years old.”

The jurisdictional grab serves only to shield catfish farmers against competition at the expense of U.S. consumers.

This seems to smack of food politics, not public health.

Both the FDA and the General Accountability Office agree that there is no food safety justification for this regulatory divide.

Explicitly creating a program exclusively for catfish seems to be unnecessary, and it directs resources away from high-risk foods.