What the F: Government rejects mad cow testing?

[jhu]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: jhu
my gf and i have stopped eating beef since last year. good riddance.

Amazing the fear one little incident will cause someone.

it's not just that. beef is one of the most inefficient foods ever.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Turin39789
100% testing is a waste of money, and again, there would be definite concerns over validity if it gets farmed out to the lowest bidder

Not to the soon to be recipient of the mad cow protein.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Effen
The japanese are being rediculous. Its just an excuse to block a foreign import. We started importing Chickens from China on their word that they had the 'bird flu' under control (not eradicated but under control).

If do this to make them happy, we'll have to do something else later. Next thing you know the price of beef makes it impossible to export.

This is really a free trade issue and not a safety issue. If there were several cows found and outstanding questions about others we might want to do some kind of testing. Right now the case of mad cow was traced to its origin.

Yet the US banned meat from a lot of European countries when a disease was discovered there, and kept the ban up for months after the last case was eliminated. The world market is a battlefield, and Bush has done a good job pissing people off in all ways possible. See also: Import taxes on steel, and the whining when it was done the other way around as well.