Less government?

Sounds like excessive government.

The Bush administration wants to stop a company from voluntarily testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The large meat packing companies are concerned that if Creekstone Farms convinces consumers their meat is safe it will hurt the sales of the other companies untested meat.

I guess we better not encouarge companies that look out for the U.S. consumer.

By the way the Bush administration has cut back arbitrary testing for Mad Cow disease to one percent.




U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow
The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows.

Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone should test its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive tests on their larger herds as well.

The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry.

have there ever been mad cows in the usa then?

there was , i believe a couple of years back?????

here is a link : Alabama cow tests positive for mad cow disease - Mad Cow in the U.S. - MSNBC.com

By false positive, do they mean verifiably safe?

Gotta love that small government, compassionate conservatism.

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What I'd like to see is random testing of cattle feed - I guarantee you the law is being broken and cows are still being fed other cows.

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Creekstone Farms must be pretty confident in the testing if they are will to foot the bill. Why would they put themselves in the path a backfire and test their cows to have a false positive?

The real question is how can the Bush Administration say that they want small government and take a company to court for wanting to voluntarily pay for testing of their own product?

These guys are for small government when it suits them.