How Now Mad Cow?

The U.S. has the least tested cattle for Mad Cow disease in the developed world. This has crippled the cattle industry as other countries banned our imports after one of our cows was found to have it.

The Bush solution?

Pressure Japan, formerly the largest importer of U.S. beef, to reopen it markets to us and to try to resume our own imports of beef from Canada this March. Canada's cows and meat had been banned because of their own Mad Cow cases. Japan has been dragging its feet in talks and for good reason. In the U.S. two-thirds of the possibly infected cows could not be tracked and made it into our food supply. Didn't hear that on the Nightly News, did you?

Those Bush policies, like all his others, have failed. More cases of mad cow disease in Canada have Japan still saying no and the Canadian beef industry still under fire. The new Ag Secretary faces an impossible task of reconciling cattle industry profits and the safety of Americans. Especially as his priority is to get those import and export doggies moving.

It's Mad to Eat Meat.

U.S. Violates World Health Organization Guidelines for Mad Cow Disease