Mad Cow Disease Tough for Bush Administration to Deal With

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20031226_69.html

Gee, will Bush make an ass out of himself by - gulp - soliciting advice from scientists?

and yes this can become a very seriious issue

Worst case absolute worst case.... wiht all secondary industries, we
are talking of a trillion + in losses

Even if the recovery was for real, there it goes... down the drain

and call Mac's "bio-burgers."

Have Campaign contributions influenced the government to pressure the USDA to allow animals too sick to stand to be sold to the privatized public school lunch programs to become food for our children.

check out www.organicconsumers.org and www.maddeer.org and 'CWD Prion disease" Prions can survive cremation at over 1800*F and the ashes can infect healthy animals, the scientist that discovered prions as the cause of Mad Cow disease actually died of it.. he contracted Mad Cow Prions from breathing the dust from sterilized bone meal while re-potting house plants.

downer cows were fed to mink in Minnesota, the mink escaped into the wild and infected the deer herds.. check out. "CWD Red Zone"

Some woman who lived in the area where it was happening called in. Said she had seen the deer with her own eyes

this bullshit about getting the facts straight and consulting with experts to get the science right is a stalling tactic by these pricks.

They've been pulling this with everything they don't like-- asbestos in the water, global warming, workplace safety, smokestack emissions...

The absolutlutely, positively last thing on their minds is the public health and safety.

:dunce:

<snip> Despite the risks, several political analysts from farm states said they didn't believe it was likely to grow into a serious political issue.//

Um, do political analysts ever talk to anyone but each other? I live in an area with a very sparse human population but a lot of cattle. Already hearing a lot of anger about 'letting some producers get away with things' that could very well put the whole industry out of business.

These are small, family operations and they know full well that laws, regulation and enforcement of them is always slanted to favor big argi-busniness entities. They operate on a shoestring and there was a bit of cheer as the prices they are paid for calves went up a bit this year. They know what this is likely to do to them all. Those who haven't sold this years calves are in trouble. Next year, everybody is likely to be in trouble.

Will they think too kindly towards an administration hell bent on 'getting regulators off the backs of business' when their business sinks due to not enough careful inspection? They will not be kind. Look for rumblings from blue states and chagrin on faces of political analysts.

then a photo-op of Bush eating "beef" at his ranch and all the republicans having a cookout with burgers and steaks with flags waving in the background. Anyone who mentions the mad cow thing will be called unpatriotic and a friend of the terrorists.

If Dems are smart, they will push heavily on the de-regulation/government downsizing cause and effect theme. Not getting their three pounds of meat per day will reach Americans.

:tinfoilhat:

Beef from our schools.
Beef from McDonald's and other fast food places that run all their meat through just a few abbatoirs.

Basement woulda advised the Shrub to upgrade the rules. NEW RULES equals NO MAD COW SHIT.

BUSH HAS LET MAD COWS INTO AMERICA, we all knew he was a non thinker, this is fuckin proof/

Elect a DUMMY, get DUMMY MAD COW SHIT> BWAhahahahahahaaa

Come, we elect an idiot who flies all the way to Iraq to serve plastic turkey, who fosters a war to find WMD then to set the Iraqi People free with a Democratic Gov't but now with holds elections until the RIGHT people are NOMINATED?? Now we got a prez who lets the MAD COWS into our country via poor procedures that were never up graded even after our neighbor Canada had a devastating episode just 3 years ago.

SEE what I mean?? We get a Dummy to lead us, now we pay a price.

Its time we realize the Coach is on a losing streak.

are to blame.

read the "Ready To Eat?" chapter of Molly Ivin's BUSHWHACKED

if it's profit v. protection, profit wins EVERY time with BushCo.