Republicans Say Mad Cows Are OK!

[fitzy24]

Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie

Who really cares as long as no one is still not dieing of Mad Cow disease in America? But if you're nevertheless scared then hold those Republicans responsible by voting them out of office.

I had lunch a few weeks ago with a friend of mine and she told me that a cousin of hers was in the hospital for "mad cow disease". I didn't believe her because I thought we solved that problem. She said he was bad off and the docs wanted to pull the plug but his wife didn't want. I will have to check with her to find out if he is still living. Of course she told me this while I was munching on a burger.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by city414

Competition! America slanders opposition as well

LOL. So you have fallen back to "the US does it too". Ok, well thankyou for accepting my point that many foreign markets basically try to keep out US products via fearmongering due to free trade laws that prohibit outright bans and excessive tariffs.

[Mathguy]

I thought this was interesting....

FDA Proposes Additional "Mad Cow" Safeguards (http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2005/new01240.html - broken link)

[Luiso]

Originally Posted by KevK

Now usually it is industry that wants to poison consumers with things like lead toys, poisoned pet food and other such nice things and it is usually the government that demands that such things be tested for and kept off store shelves.
But now we have the reverse! Now we have industry wanting to test for an unsafe product and the government, under the Republicans, saying they cannot test for safe products!
It just boggles the mind!! WTF?? And you want another 4 years of THIS?

Feds fight broad testing for mad cow - Mad Cow in the U.S. - MSNBC.com

I agree but is Pelosi and the Dem's in Congress a sleep?
Why give them a free pass.

Seem's they are enablers nothing more . Empty speeches with no action = enabler

[Luiso]

Originally Posted by Magnulus

I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat cows... but it is not good that the government doesn't care about inspecting beef for Mad Cow disease.

And the beef industry donates heavily to Republicans, so it is a fair criticism.

Not long ago there was a scare with vegetables .

NEITHER party cares about inspecting anything because BOTH parties are OWNED by special interest.

[Luiso]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

I find a lot of the *protests* against US agricultural products to be disingenous and largely driven by farm groups in other countries trying to protect their markets. You can talk about Korea, China, Japan etc. but the bottom line is that the US is an agricultural powerhouse and those countries have vested interests that don't want the US products in there so they label them as inferior, dangerous etc. This is an old old trick and most countries have done something similar in their histories.

A while back Japan wouldn't import American beef because "Their intestines were different" or import American ski's because thier "snow was different".

Mad Cow is an excuse to violate free-trade pacts without retaliation.

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Well said. I was in Korea for close to a year . I would go to non GI towns and non tourist area's to see the country side.

They fertilize some of their farms with human feces . The Cow farm's there are grotesque compared to USA .
Granted I havent gone around comparing every farm here and there.

Ofcourse it's PC for them to demonstrate against us while eating their own brand .
I will eat our cattle before I eat their's any day and feel safe doing so.

I will say this till I found out how some of their farms were fertilized . I found their watermelon best I ever ate lol.