USDA insider reveals the truth: mad cow disease is epidemic, USDA labs fraudulently cover up test results

Friday, March 26, 2004 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: food politics, mad cow disease, beef industry

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But here's where it gets interesting: the coverup is so deep and so dangerous that a USDA insider spoke to United Press International about what's really happening there. He said, "Most agency veterinarians know mad cow is prevalent and epidemic (in U.S. herds). We're not talking about one or two cases." This quote should be downright shocking. It's yet more insider evidence that the USDA has long been engaged in a massive coverup designed to protect the beef industry, not consumers.

It gets better: "The USDA has such a cohesive relationship with industry ...that it wants to protect the $70 billion beef industry more than consumers," the veterinarian said. Exactly! That's what I've been saying here all along. The USDA is a highly corrupt organization, and it is clearly working to protect the industry at the cost of public health. A thorough look at the agency's behaviors leaves no doubt.

So here's how the USDA manages to hoodwink the entire country on mad cow disease. First, they limit mad cow testing to make sure there's hardly any chance of finding it. Second, they control all the tests and rig them to make sure they produce negative results. Third, any case of mad cow disease that manages to slip through this deception is retroactively modified -- records are fraudulently edited to classify the cow as a "downer" cow, which is exactly what happened with the case of mad cow disease found in Oregon (the USDA threatened a meat inspector and forced him to alter the records of the cow, but three witnesses say the cow walked right off the truck, so it obviously wasn't a downer cow).

Meanwhile, the USDA proudly announces to the U.S. public that the nation's beef is entirely safe. Mad cow disease doesn't exist in the U.S., they say, and people should keep on buying and eating red meat.

It's all a lie, of course. Mad cow is "epidemic" according go the USDA insider mentioned here. The lab results are fraudulent. The cover-up is swift. That's the USDA in action, which demonstrates that when it comes to government agencies like the FDA and USDA, the financial interests of private industry always come first, and public safety always comes last.

What we're really looking at here is an unprecedented public health scandal, one that's eventually going to break wide open and expose these agencies for their criminal actions. The people in charge at the USDA and FDA should be imprisoned, not left to control the safety of foods and medicine.