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USDA anagram for Madness?
Published June 1st, 2007 in commentary
The US Government wants you to feel safe about the beef you eat. So safe that they’ve banned independent BSE (mad cow) testing!
The Associated Press notes that the Bush administration “will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department 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 the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows,” but the US government has said such private testing is illegal. “U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn’t have the authority to restrict it. 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.” Way back in 1997, the book Mad Cow USA by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber exposed the US government’s failure to protect cattle and people against this bizarre and always fatal brain disease, including the failure to adequately test US cattle. One decade later the US cover-up continues.
Canada has had 11 BSE cases in recent history, the latest one this year already. Each month 30,000 head of Canadian cattle flood across the Washington State border alone, destined for slaughter. How many of these cattle are coming through untested, unscreened and carrying BSE? It is shear idiocy on the part of the USDA, the President, Congress, the American Beef Industry, and the American Consumer to allow this ban to go forward.
The only way to assure the meats you eat aren’t tainted by BSE or anything else is to buy locally from a farmer or rancher you can trust, from a herd you can see, which is preferably grass-fed. Demand locally produced meats from sources which aren’t trying to hide anything. Don’t accept Government Bull, take my steer in the right direction.
http://kitchengardens.net/2007/06/01/usda-anagram-for-madness/
USDA anagram for Madness?
Published June 1st, 2007 in commentary
The US Government wants you to feel safe about the beef you eat. So safe that they’ve banned independent BSE (mad cow) testing!
The Associated Press notes that the Bush administration “will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department 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 the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows,” but the US government has said such private testing is illegal. “U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn’t have the authority to restrict it. 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.” Way back in 1997, the book Mad Cow USA by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber exposed the US government’s failure to protect cattle and people against this bizarre and always fatal brain disease, including the failure to adequately test US cattle. One decade later the US cover-up continues.
Canada has had 11 BSE cases in recent history, the latest one this year already. Each month 30,000 head of Canadian cattle flood across the Washington State border alone, destined for slaughter. How many of these cattle are coming through untested, unscreened and carrying BSE? It is shear idiocy on the part of the USDA, the President, Congress, the American Beef Industry, and the American Consumer to allow this ban to go forward.
The only way to assure the meats you eat aren’t tainted by BSE or anything else is to buy locally from a farmer or rancher you can trust, from a herd you can see, which is preferably grass-fed. Demand locally produced meats from sources which aren’t trying to hide anything. Don’t accept Government Bull, take my steer in the right direction.
http://kitchengardens.net/2007/06/01/usda-anagram-for-madness/