Taken from an article by Stephen Hedges in Jan 15,2007 Chicago Tribune
This article sets the stage that proves the US has BSE, the USDA is not looking to find it and the US has dangerous loopholes that spread it.
Now if R-CALF and their court cases proves "ALL beef coming from a Country Affected by BSE presents a "GENUINE RISK OF DEATH" and that Beef and Beef products from those countries cannot be safely traded or consumed, no matter what safeguards are in place." How long will it take Michael and his buddies to turn their R-CALF loaded guns on the US beef industry and DESTROY YOU? Keep donating those calves boys as when Michael and his Consumer groups get done with you they aren't going to be worth a d**n thing

The USDA rule is also bound to renew disagreements between government and consumer groups over the USDA's efforts to detect mad cow in the U.S.
Michael Hansen, a scientist with Consumer's Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, said that there are dangerous loopholes in the USDA safeguards to prevent BSE-diseased animal parts from finding their way into animal feed.
Hansen also contends that the Agriculture Department is intent on proving that there is no BSE in the U.S., not on detecting it in U.S. cattle.
"Ultimately they don't want to find anything," Hansen said. "That first animal that they found infected in Washington state, that was completely by accident."
Hansen was one of several consumer representatives involved in an effort to force the USDA to continue BSE tests on brain specimens from a suspect Texas cow in 2005.
Initial tests of the cow in Texas in November 2004 suggested that it had been infected with BSE. The results were sent to a USDA lab in Ames, Iowa, where a more thorough test produced a negative result. But a second, unofficial test by the lab supported the positive Texas results.
While some scientists would have continued testing to determine whether BSE was present, the USDA did not. But Hansen and other consumer advocates raised the issue with the department's inspector general, who ordered that further tests be done in England.
Those tests confirmed that the Texas cow was infected with BSE, which the USDA then announced publicly.
This article sets the stage that proves the US has BSE, the USDA is not looking to find it and the US has dangerous loopholes that spread it.
Now if R-CALF and their court cases proves "ALL beef coming from a Country Affected by BSE presents a "GENUINE RISK OF DEATH" and that Beef and Beef products from those countries cannot be safely traded or consumed, no matter what safeguards are in place." How long will it take Michael and his buddies to turn their R-CALF loaded guns on the US beef industry and DESTROY YOU? Keep donating those calves boys as when Michael and his Consumer groups get done with you they aren't going to be worth a d**n thing