So you're saying not many people eat meat? or you think mad cow won't affect you therefore we shouldn't care. The US cared enough to close the border to beef for a helluva a long time because of it but it seems not to be made such a big thing now that BSE is being discovered in the US. There are some scary ass things going on with our food and it's being kept by us because the majority of people just don't seem to want to know.
Sorry, I just remember there being huge discussions about it a few years ago when an infected cow was discovered and now it's on the rise again and nobody seems to care. I know politics has a lot to do with it, but this is a problem that people need to pay attention too.
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Mad Cow is a major issue, when it becomes a major issue. It seems that the few cases of it in the US have been contained very quickly. It could definetly become a very largescale problem in the future, but just like SARS, it has been overhyped to death already.
Mad Cow is a major issue, when it becomes a major issue. It seems that the few cases of it in the US have been contained very quickly. It could definetly become a very largescale problem in the future, but just like SARS, it has been overhyped to death already.
Well if you think it's not a problem then that's good. I really miss the old days when I didn't worry about food production.
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C4Lukin wrote:
Mad Cow is a major issue, when it becomes a major issue. It seems that the few cases of it in the US have been contained very quickly. It could definetly become a very largescale problem in the future, but just like SARS, it has been overhyped to death already.
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Green Habit wrote:
MurphyJesus wrote:
I really miss the old days when I didn't worry about food production.
That book definitely made me want to go out and buy some canned beef products. Mmmmmm... tainted beef...
Mad Cow is a major issue, when it becomes a major issue. It seems that the few cases of it in the US have been contained very quickly. It could definetly become a very largescale problem in the future, but just like SARS, it has been overhyped to death already.
it's not like we'd really know if a case wasn't contained early.
The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.
You read that right. The Bush "administration" will fight to keep meatpackers from testing their animals for mad cow disease.
WTF? How does stupid shit like this always end up happening?
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A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows.
Great! Wonderful! Everybody's gonna want their meat from Creekstone Farms! Free enterprise at its best! Give the people what they want!
Not so fast, says the "administration." The people can go Cheney themselves.
But why? Why the hell would anyone get in the way of something like that? And on what grounds?
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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.
The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry.
Oh my God. F this. Are you kidding me?
I'm at a loss here. But thankfully, Rick Perlstein at .common sense is not:
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First, observe the contempt for liberty. When E. coli conservatives say self-regulation is preferable to government, they're even lying about that.Second, observe the contempt for small business. When a small company want to - voluntarily! - hold its product to a higher standard, the government blocks it, in part because bigger companies have to be protected from the competition, in part because a theoretical threat to the bottom line (false positives) trumps protection against a deadly disease.
There's your conservatism, America: not extremism in defense of liberty. State socialism in defense of Mad Cow.
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PD, you've made me shit myself 5 times today.
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Im brazilian, so no need to worry.
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jesus christ, you can't make this kind of stuff up re: pd's bush post
gladder than ever not to be a meat eater
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Soma. wrote:
Human Bass wrote:
Im brazilian, so no need to worry.
GIVE ME YOUR CATTLE
We already sell it quite a lot, Brazil is the biggest beef exporter in all world, baby.
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