Your chance of eating a mad cow has increased
With the BSE testing cutback just authorized by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, you have a higher risk than ever of eating a cow infected with BSE, meaning your chance at living a long and healthy life has just increased significantly. Those of us who have witnessed a loved one dying of CJD never thought we were testing enough cows for BSE to begin with. My belief still stands; we should be testing every cow meant for human consumption for BSE.
The Organic Consumers Association is upset about this testing cutback. Far less than one percent of the beef you are eating has been tested for BSE. You could very well be eating diseased meat which means CJD could be incubating in your body right now. Don't you think your tax dollars would be better spent insuring your food is safe from a fatal disease?
So one asks, where can you find beef that can be trusted? Not everyone is going to go vegan or vegetarian to ensure their safety like I have. So what are you to do if you and your family still eat beef? Creekstone Farms wants to test every single one of its cows for BSE but the USDA doesn't want to allow this. Doesn't that make the USDA look pretty guilty of trying to hide a BSE problem in America?
Read about it here.
posted by Heather Larson at Monday, July 31, 2006
2 Comments:
It is a mess - I still do not really understand the USDA policy. I have been following all the "mad cow" news fo awhile at www.madcowblog.com.
7/31/2006 6:31 PM
All I can make out from the USDA policy is a "don't look, don't find" policy, hence the USDA trying to prevent Creekstone Farms from trying to test every one of their cows for BSE. Creekstone wants to do the right thing by its customers. Every cow in America meant for human consumption should be tested for BSE, the cows found with BSE must be destroyed and must undergo autopsies so that we can find out what strains of BSE we really do have in this country since an atyptical BSE strain has been found recently.
Basically, the USDA is doing everything it can to give the American public the impression that we don't have a BSE problem here. But we do. Not acknowledging the problem is an even bigger problem.
Hey, if I'm wrong, guess what, USDA? Prove me wrong. If America doesn't have a BSE problem then there should be no issue with testing every cow meant for human consumption. Prove me wrong. Prove there really isn't a BSE problem here by testing the 35 million cows for BSE that innocent American citizens are eating each year. PROVE ME WRONG.
8/01/2006 11:04 AM
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