Efforts To Contain Mad Cow Disease Fall Short

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EFFORTS TO CONTAIN MAD COW DISEASE FALL SHORT

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-06-02-edit_x.htm

In 1997 Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber wrote Mad Cow USA, warning

that that mad cow type diseases were possible in the U.S. Even now,

in the face of North America's first case of mad cow disease in

Canada, the powerful livestock industry and their friends in

government are refusing to adopt the strict British standards

regarding animal feeding and testing. USA Today editorializes that

" Lax federal regulation and enforcement have left the U.S. beef

supply and consumers' health unnecessarily vulnerable to an

outbreak of mad cow... . ... The 1997 partial ban does not include

cattle blood, which is fed to calves as a replacement for milk. ...

A total ban on animal additives in animal feed would greatly reduce

remaining risks. ... But the cattle industry and the FDA argue that

a ban on animal products in feed is unnecessary because adequate

safeguards against mad cow already are in place. ... That argument

hides the industry's economic incentive to keep low-cost sources of

animal protein in the diets of cattle. "

SOURCE: USA Today, June 2, 2003

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