Is the U.S. Importing Mad Cow Disease?
July 30, 2008 on 11:50 am | By beth | In Food Safety |
A recent audit of the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) revealed that cows from Canada have been entering the country without being properly inspected. Consequently, concerns have been raised that mad cow disease may have been imported along with the undocumented cows. And because the Bush Administration does not want meatpackers conducting their own private testing for mad cow disease, this threat to public health/food safety is simply a disaster waiting to happen.* Further complicating matters, the under-funded and understaffed USDA has no idea where these cows have ended up because of record-keeping errors made by APHIS.
http://www.animalwelfareapproved.org/blog/2008/07/30/is-the-us-importing-mad-cow-disease/
One Comment
Yet another reason for local meat eaters to buy grass fed Humboldt Beef. The Feds, not wanting any private testing and the major beef producers not pushing the testing are doing more for the vegetarian movement than peta could ever do.