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| Re: Here's your government working for your safety! [message #85626 is a reply to message #85614] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 07:48   |
Jamie K
Messages: 1115
Registered: July 2006
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Ignorance is bliss. Thanks USDA...
Cheers,
-Jamie
www.JamieKrutz.com
James McCloskey wrote:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18924801/
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep
meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture tests fewer than 1 percent of
slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat
tainted beef. A beef producer in Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef,
wants to test all of its cows.
Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone should
test its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the
expensive tests on their larger herds as well.
A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. The
ruling was scheduled to take effect June 1, but the Agriculture
Department said Tuesday it would appeal, effectively delaying the
testing until the court challenge has played out.
Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is linked to more
than 150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain.
Three cases of mad cow disease have been found in the United States. The
first, in December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been
imported from Canada. The second, in 2005, was in a cow born in Texas.
The third was confirmed last year in an Alabama cow.
The Agriculture Department argued that widespread testing could lead to
a false positive that would harm the U.S. meat industry. U.S. District
Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test
the government relies on and said the government lacked the authority to
restrict it.
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| Re: Here's your government working for your safety! [message #85684 is a reply to message #85614] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 19:41 |
Bill L
Messages: 766
Registered: August 2006
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Bush is such a sleazy corporate money whore. Doesn't that make some of
you who support the war in Iraq wonder about its validity?
What chaps my ass is when I hear people say, "we can't change the tax
code", or "We can't enforce our immigration laws", and "We can't do
anything about Social Security running out of money" all that other
apathetic BS, yet we have no slightest problem finding the moxy to send
an army to Iraq to kill our "enemies" and a lot of other people who
probably didn't want to die, while spending $200-300B of our hard earned
tax dollars for absolutely nothing of value in return that I can see.
Who gets rich? Bankers, armorers, drug runners (they grow LOTS of opium
in Iraq) and the bankers who clean their $. Scam, scam, scam.
Rant over... for now!
James McCloskey wrote:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18924801/
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