Here's an excellent New York Times article on the truth behind the
actions of the USDA on mad cow disease. What's obvious to every thinking
person who has paid attention to this issue is that the USDA is acting
as a beef marketing branch of the U.S. government, not as an agency
tasked with protecting the American public. In fact, as this article
shows, Lisa Harrison, the spokeswoman for the Agriculture Secretary, was
formerly the director of public relations for the National Cattlemen's
Beef Association! It's a clear case of a severe conflict of interest,
but it's not at all uncommon. A tremendous number of employees at the
USDA and even the FDA come straight from the industries these agencies
are supposed to regulate. That's just one of the many reasons why both
the USDA and FDA fail so miserably at doing their jobs (protecting the
public) while succeeding so strongly in promoting the economic interests
of their respective industries. But let's face it: mad cow disease is
deadly. And thanks to sickening practices in the beef industry (like
using spinal cords in meat processing, feeding chicken litter to cows,
"rendering" diseased cows into beef products, and so on), mad cow
disease could be in your freezer or refrigerator right now. Eat the
wrong food and you, too, will become another death statistic to be
denied by the USDA. See, the USDA (with the help of Lisa Harrison)
denies there's any problem whatsoever with mad cow disease. To hear them
tell it, mad cow is pure fiction. In fact, the USDA doesn't even plan to
test the cows for mad cow disease. Imagine that. We know the
disease exists in U.S. cows. We know it's deadly. But the USDA won't
even mandate testing. It's not hard to figure out why: the USDA is
protecting the profits of industry, not public health. And chances are,
some American consumers are going to pay the price for it. My best
advice: stop eating cow flesh. Even without mad cow, it's both an
unhealthy and inhumane source of food.
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