Guest guest Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 The Mad Cow Cover-Up Begins to Unravel > > By John Stauber PR Watch Posted June 14, 2005. > > Last week the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture announced that an American cow > tested positive for mad cow disease. Without major changes in the beef > industry, it may be just the first of many. > > The US government's elaborate cover-up of mad cow dangers in the United > States has begun to unravel. Twenty-four hours after our successful protest > with Organic Consumers Association of a US Department of Agriculture mad > cow safety stunt in St. Paul, USDA Secretary Johanns was forced to admit > that a cow tested last year and declared safe in fact DID have mad cow disease. > > I've often charged that the USDA is hiding US cases of mad cow by using the > wrong testing procedures and by failing to conduct food safety tests on > millions of animals and this announcement proves it. USDA finally used the > correct test -- the Western Blot test -- on this suspect animal and it has > proven to be a case of mad cow disease. > > We at the Center for Media and Democracy will continue to work hard on this > issue until the US goes beyond lip-service and does what the EU countries > and Japan have done: implement a science-based food-safety testing program > that tests millions of cattle a year. And, the US must put in place a REAL > " fire-wall feed ban " that would stop the current feeding of billions of > pounds of blood, meat, bone meal, animal fat and poultry feces to cattle in > the US. These on-going feed practices amplify and spread mad cow disease. > > The US news media has > > The rest of the article is at: > http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/22217/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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