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| gofyaself |
So, a company voluteers to inspect all it's meat. Good for the public, and good for the company since they would be able to advertise all their meat is inspected while their competition is not.
Ahh, but soon, to keep up, other meatpackers would have to do the same. Thus, enter the Bush administration. And remember, THERE IS NO FREE MARKET.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.co...int.php?p=10958
I had to read this one several times to make sure I wasn’t confused. At first, it seemed as if the Bush administration would fight voluntary tests on food safety. I thought, “That can’t be right.”
And yet, it is.
The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.
The Agriculture Department tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows.
Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive test, too.
The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry.
This is just bizarre. In this case, a business wants to go above and beyond what’s required by law, and test all of its cows for mad cow disease. The Bush administration won’t allow it.
What’s more, a federal judge ruled a couple of months ago that these voluntary industry tests must be allowed, and the ruling was set to take effect on Friday, prompting the Agriculture Department to announce today that it would appeal the ruling. In the interim, Creekstone can’t do the tests it wants to guarantee food safety.
Bush administration officials couldn’t possibly be that afraid of “false positives.” Shouldn’t public health be the greater concern?
Rick Perlstein, as he is prone to do, summarized this nicely in the latest edition of his “E. coli conservatism” series.
First, observe the contempt for liberty. When E. coli conservatives say self-regulation is preferable to government, they’re even lying about that. Second, observe the contempt for small business. When a small company want to - voluntarily! - hold its product to a higher standard, the government blocks it, in part because bigger companies have to be protected from the competition, in part because a theoretical threat to the bottom line (false positives) trumps protection against a deadly disease.
There’s your conservatism, America: not extremism in defense of liberty. State socialism in defense of Mad Cow.
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| Jackie's Career |
"The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry."
I have to agree with the Agriculture Dept on this one. It's better to have known quality control in place than just taking some guy's word for it. But they should definitely be testing a lot more than 1 percent of the cows, if that is true. |
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| NCMike06 |
| Has there ever been a rampant outbreak of mad cow disease based on tainted US beef, in this country?? Did I miss something?? |
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| Crazytree |
Quote: Originally posted by NCMike06
Has there ever been a rampant outbreak of mad cow disease based on tainted US beef, in this country?? Did I miss something?? |
Has there ever been a nuclear terrorist attack on this country? Should we therefore assume one will never occur and behave ourselves accordingly?
Did you miss something? Yea... the fucking point... as usual. |
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| NCMike06 |
Quote: Originally posted by Crazytree
Has there ever been a nuclear terrorist attack on this country? Should we therefore assume one will never occur and behave ourselves accordingly?
Did you miss something? Yea... the fucking point... as usual. |
No one is claiming that all inspections should stop, numnuts. It just might not be the most important thing we should be doing....
Personally, I think companies should be able to inspect all of their meat they choose too.
Don't you have a con-law case you should be working on... :rolleyes: |
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| Fdubya247 |
Its encouraging to see that there is no topic on which NCDike can't expose his own ignorance on.
You should be sterilized. |
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| ICE CUBAN |
| The Bush twins can inspect my meat if they need to. <Dice Gottfried> Owwwhhhhhhhhhh<Dice Gottfried> |
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