September 3, 2008 11:02 by
Gene
The United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) explicitly
allows diseased animals to be slaughtered and used for human food. It has taken
a “don’t look, don’t find” approach when it comes to potential human health
hazardous. Amazingly, the Agency has even gone to court to fight to prevent animals
from being tested for disease! And they recently won a case to prevent a slaughterhouse from testing cows for mad cow
disease. Why would the U.S.D.A. and other agribusinesses work so hard to
prevent animals from being tested for disease? I think they’re afraid of what
they’d find.