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Monday, September 01, 2008

Profits Over People in Republican America

[via USAToday]
The government can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday... [T]he Agriculture Department tests only a small percentage of cows for the deadly disease, [but] Kansas meatpacker Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wanted to test all of its cows. The government said it could not. Larger meat companies worry that if Creekstone performed the test and advertised its meat as safe, they could be forced to do the expensive test, too.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow...