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Revenge of the MAD COW; No, not Barbra Bush!!
Topic Started: Aug 6 2006, 07:35 AM (72 Views)
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USDA Doesn’t Want Beef Producers To Test For Mad Cow Because It Might Find The Disease

Creekstone Farms, a Kansas beef producer, wants to reassure customers that its cattle are safe to eat by testing them all for mad cow disease. Sounds like a smart business move, but there’s one problem: The federal government won’t let the company do it.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture — invoking an obscure 1913 law intended to thwart con artists from peddling bogus hog cholera serum to pig farmers — is blocking companies from selling the testing kits to Creekstone.

USDA is doing the bidding of large cattle barons afraid that Creekstone’s marketing will force them to do the same tests to stay competitive.
Not only is USDA blocking Creekstone, the department said last month that it’s reducing its mad cow testing program by 90%. The industry and its sympathetic regulators seem to believe that the problem isn’t mad cow disease. It’s tests that find mad cow.

“In a nation dedicated to free market competition,” says John Stewart, CEO of Creekstone, which is suing USDA, “a company that wants to do more than is required to ensure the quality of its product and to satisfy customer demand should be allowed to do so.”

When regulators disagree with reasoning like that, you know the game is rigged.
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