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WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it 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.
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 Agriculture Department said Tuesday it would appeal, effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge has played out.
From Bad American's Let em eat mad cow and The International Herald Tribune.
And a little background: The infectious agent responsible for bovine spongiform encephalopathy has a loooooong incubation period and is not killed by cooking. Testing 1%. Denying companies that want to do better (wait, what happened to the free market?) . . . Burger anyone?
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.
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 Agriculture Department said Tuesday it would appeal, effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge has played out.
From Bad American's Let em eat mad cow and The International Herald Tribune.
And a little background: The infectious agent responsible for bovine spongiform encephalopathy has a loooooong incubation period and is not killed by cooking. Testing 1%. Denying companies that want to do better (wait, what happened to the free market?) . . . Burger anyone?
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