Does anyone care?

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At first, a few years ago, the experts at the USDA said Mad Cow disease would never appear in the US.

They made sure they would never find a case by only testing one out of every 12,000 cows. Well, against all the odds, they found a mad cow. "Shit!" they thought, "we better fix this public relations disaster fast!"

They blamed Canada, changed a few rules, said they were increasing testing tenfold (didn't bother to mention that it means they would still only be testing one out of every 1,200 cows) and told the public that US beef is safe. They prohibited small organic cattle ranchers from doing their own tests of each and every cow and labelling their beef as "mad cow free." Wouldn't look good to the public to have some expensive shrink-wrapped packages of beef clearly labelled as "mad cow free" while other less expensive packages sat there unlabelled in the display case.

Well, it took a year and a half, but they just found a second infected cow. Confirmed. Not just an initial screenig test.

They still claim the US beef supply is safe. They are scrambling to find a way to claim this is an anomaly.

They are liars. The US beef supply is not safe.

I've ranted about this topic in previous threads. I apologize if my continued ranting is annoying. Thing is, I LOVE beef. I MISS beef. I stopped eating beef when they found the first mad cow and I read how little testing is done. Sure, the change in rules was a good first step. But we need to follow Europe's lead, and test at least 1 out of every 3 cows. This 1 out of 1,200 shit has got to stop. Japan tests 100% of the cows they eat. We could test 100% of our beef for only $.25 to $.50 per pound more. Would you be willing to spend that to be sure your beef is Mad Cow free?

I love beef. I miss beef. I want the officials who have been charged with ensuring that our beef supply is safe to do thier jobs so I can eat beef again.

Do any of you care? In previous threads, only one or two Dwellars have cared.