USA/BSE: Who's mad?

Source: PCRM Good Medicine - Autumn 2007


What's the best way to make sure another case of mad cow diseases doesn't show up in America? Don't test for it.

Believe it nor not, that was the U.S. Government's position in response to a Kansas beef producer who wanted to test his entire herd.

Currently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for mad cow disease.

Three cases have shown in the United States, and universal testing remains banned because of the possible harm it could do to the cattle industry....

Source: PCRM
Author: PCRM

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