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NaturalNews.com printable articleOriginally published February 22 2008 USDA Refuses to Recall "Comingled" Meat That Contains Beef from Westland Plant Downer Cowsby Mike Adams (NaturalNews) Following the unprecedented recall of 143 million pounds of beef that was potentially contaminated with mad cow disease, the USDA has decided that it's okay for children and consumer to eat that beef as long as it is comingled with beef from other cows. This startling decision appeared in a USDA memo reported in the Wall Street Journal, which stated:"If a processor or grinder has records demonstrating that products were produced using less than 100% of recalled Westland meat for the meat component, then there is no need...to retrieve that 'commingled' product."This statement from the USDA reveals that the agency believes the recalled beef is so dangerous that nobody should eat it, but it's safe enough to eat alongside beef from other cows. This is a curious -- if not downright laughable -- stance to take on public safety. If the meat is potentially contaminated with mad cow disease (which is the whole reason why it was recalled in the first place), then mixing mad cow disease-contaminated meat with non-contaminated meat does not reduce the potential danger of the "commingled" meat in any way whatsoever.Video: See the exclusive video clip on Factory Farms and Slaughterhouse Cruelty at http://www.NaturalNews.com/022702.html

USDA nonsense and the betrayal of the publicHow does adding another cow's meat to the downer cow's meat make the downer cow's meat any safer? It doesn't, of course, but the USDA isn't really interested in consumer safety. That's why they've issued this statement that means a meat packing company can use 99% of its beef from mad cow disease "downer" cows, and 1% of its beef from healthy cows, and it's all declared "safe" by the USDA with no need to recall the beef!Now you can see why I consider the USDA to be such a joke. Much like the FDA, the USDA is primarily focused on protecting the profits of the industry it claims to regulate. What's important to the USDA is promoting beef, not protecting the public, and that's exactly why you also see these intentional delays in the USDA issuing beef recalls. These delays are specifically designed to limit the financial losses associated with beef recalls by making sure most of the meat is already eaten by consumers before the recall is issued.It's yet another campaign of extreme incompetence -- or perhaps fraud -- by the USDA, an organization that believes too much in promoting milk and beef products that it has insisted for decades that all Americans eat more beef and drink more milk. That's the whole point behind the USDA's laughable food guide pyramid -- a marketing document designed to fatten up the population by telling consumers to eat and drink more animal products, regardless of the health consequences. Read Food Politics by Marion Nestle to get the full story on the fraud behind the USDA's food guide pyramid.Better yet, download my free Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org) - a replacement for the USDA's ridiculous food guide pyramid. The Honest Food Guide has been downloaded over one million times, and it tells the truth about foods that enhance health vs. foods that destroy health. Beef, milk and other animal products are in the "destroys health" category, and that's even when they aren't contaminated!

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At 07:16 PM 2/22/2008, you wrote:

I thought I read at least 1/3 of it had already been eaten - much by

children through school lunches...

Lynn

 

NaturalNews.com printable

article

Originally published February 22 2008

 

USDA Refuses to Recall " Comingled "

Meat That Contains Beef from Westland Plant Downer

Cows

by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) Following the unprecedented recall of 143 million pounds of

beef that was potentially contaminated with mad cow disease, the USDA has

decided that it's okay for children and consumer to eat that beef as long

as it is comingled with beef from other cows. This startling decision

appeared in a USDA memo reported in the Wall Street Journal, which

stated:

" If a processor or grinder has records demonstrating that

products were produced using less than 100% of recalled Westland meat for

the meat component, then there is no need...to retrieve that 'commingled'

product. "

This statement from

the USDA reveals

that the agency believes the recalled

beef is so dangerous

that nobody should eat it, but it's safe enough to eat alongside beef

from other cows. This is a curious -- if not downright laughable --

stance to take on public safety. If the meat is potentially contaminated

with mad cow

disease (which is the whole reason why it was recalled in the first

place), then mixing mad

cow disease-contaminated meat with non-contaminated meat does not

reduce the potential danger of the " commingled " meat in any way

whatsoever.

Video: See the exclusive video clip on Factory Farms and Slaughterhouse

Cruelty at

 

http://www.NaturalNews.com/022702.html

 

USDA

nonsense and the betrayal of the public

How does adding another cow's meat to

the downer cow's meat make the downer cow's meat any safer? It doesn't,

of course, but the USDA isn't really interested in

consumer

safety. That's why they've issued this statement that means a meat

packing company can use 99% of its beef from mad cow disease

" downer " cows, and 1% of its beef from healthy cows, and it's

all declared " safe " by the USDA with no need to recall the

beef!

Now you can see why I consider the USDA to be such a joke. Much like the

FDA, the USDA is primarily focused on protecting the profits of the

industry it claims to regulate. What's important to the USDA is

promoting beef, not protecting the public, and that's exactly why

you also see these intentional delays in the USDA issuing beef recalls.

These delays are specifically designed to limit the financial losses

associated with beef recalls by making sure most of the meat is

already eaten by consumers before the recall is issued.

It's yet another campaign of extreme incompetence -- or perhaps fraud --

by the USDA, an organization that believes too much in promoting milk and

beef products that it has insisted for decades that all Americans eat

more beef and drink more milk. That's the whole point behind the USDA's

laughable food guide pyramid -- a marketing document designed to fatten

up the population by telling consumers to eat and drink more animal

products, regardless of the health consequences. Read Food

Politics by Marion Nestle to get the full story on the fraud behind

the USDA's food guide pyramid.

Better yet, download my free Honest Food Guide

(www.HonestFoodGuide.org) -

a replacement for the USDA's ridiculous food guide pyramid. The

Honest Food

Guide has been downloaded over one million times, and it tells the

truth about foods that enhance health vs. foods that destroy health.

Beef, milk and other animal products are in the " destroys

health " category, and that's even when they aren't

contaminated!