Dairy Farmers Contributed to House Panel - (payoffs to Congress?)

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20031229/ap_on_re_us/mad_cow_politics>


snip> WASHINGTON - The dairy industry contributed to most members of a key House committee who voted nearly in lockstep against banning the sale of meat from ill or disabled animals, like the one that tested positive last week for mad cow disease.




are any of us surprised??

Get their names and prosecute.....
one by one.

How much $$$$ did they give Bush/Cheney???

*NOT*

How can anyone being defend being against the Downed Animal Act? As a lifelong Democrat I am ashamed to say I belong to the same party as this wretch. These poor old cows - the hardest working of all the barnyard animals -are treated like this when they are old and sick after they have given their all.
A docent at the children's zoo told me that farmers always want to get the calf away from the mother as soon as possible before a bond is formed. One time she witnessed an incident when they were not able to do so as soon as they wanted and the mother and calf were together for a very short period. When they attempted to remove the calf the mother cow went berserk and actually broke her neck in some sort of turnstile device trying to stay with her calf. Man's inhumanity to beast goes on and on.

as does man's inhumanity to man....there's a connection here, as you can see.

Occasionally they do sell a cow for meat but dairy cows are not cattle. But this brings up another question. How does this effect our milk?

Dairy Cows only have a good milk-lifespan of 4 years or so. After 4 years, their milk output declines, and they're sent to slaughter just like steers and other 'meat' cows.

They're just as much a part of the meat-chain as cattle.

when they grind up old dairy cows for beef cow feed, they surely do become part of the industry!

you can bet your bottom dollar ABC's George "Bow Tie" Will will be all over this story like a pubescent teenage boy on a cherry Tootsie Pop.

After all, George has his "honor" to defend, and so does ABC. They certainly wouldn't want anyone to think they approve of payola, would they?


From DU's GD threads:

Justice (655 posts) Mon Dec-29-03 10:55 AM

Rush Limbaugh; George Will; William F. Buckley and Conrad Black
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/28/rs.00.html

I was watching Walter Cronkite yesterday on Reliable Sources, and caught the last few moments of Howie Kurtz taking shots at Rush Limbaugh's 180 change on privacy rights, plus an interesting story about George Will and William Buckley's conflict of interest vis-a-vie Conrad Black.

"Columnist George Will and "National Review" founder William F. Buckley have both written favorably about media mogul Conrad Black, without disclosing that they received payments from Black's company, Hollinger International.

"The New York Times" says each was paid about $25,000 a year to speak at an annual conference. Buckley's take came to $200,000. But neither man seems embarrassed by the failure to level with readers.

Said Will, "my business is my business. Got it?"