This is so upside-down world bizarro, it's unfathomable.

A court has just ruled that it's ok for the Bush Administration to force companies to NOT test for mad cow disease, even if they WANT to protect customers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson...r_b_122974.html


So far from just weakening or eliminating regulations that might protect average citizens from corporate abuse, BushCo now has the go ahead to actually PUNISH companies that WANT to do the right thing, and regulate themselves!


I'll say it again.....

"SMALL GOVERNMENT CONSERVATIVES", MY ASS.

That is about as intrusive Big Brother as it comes.

Issue bump.

A. awesome link and find there 5by5


B. this is and has been plan one from day one...eliminate govt entirely other than defense industry (so they can steal what money there is) and make it so everyone is an employee of the corps., make it so you cant sue any of them and have no regulation at all and of course no unions (think how laughable it is that mccain and palin now say they are union friendly)

c. the sad thing is there are middle income americans who dont understand this, who will vote for them...they are ignorant and we have them everywhere, including right here on our board

Irrelevant for me, I guess. Don't eat beef - never will. If you don't want mad cow disease, don't eat cow.

I hear you, but you're gonna be paying in the higher health care costs and lost productivity for all those who did, and are now diagnosed with "alzheimer's" or "dementia".

I don't agree. I may not eat okra, but I still want ALL food to be safe, including beef and okra.

And even vegetarians shuld be concerned, because cattle are often raised next to vegetable fields, and let's just say there is often "mixing of fluids".

You know, Japan tests all beef carcasas for the prion, and all U.S. beef that is exported to Japan is tested, also.
I don't buy any beef, either. The slaughter houses use these machines that look like giant chain saws to cut the sides of beef. Once a prion contaminated carcas goes through the slaughter, the place has to be burned down because there is no was to clean the stuff away because it is not a bacteria, it is a protein. Also, human brains are not tested for the prion on autopsy because the lab equipment would have to be destroyed. so they don't want to know.

The republicans who have overtaken the U.S. government are anti-American. They don't care about Americans, and they love to flaunt that fact. They worship the golden idol.

I don't eat meat because of how the animal itself is killed (much less how it is raised). Saw a documentary short on it on Sundance Channel called "Our Daily Bread", and it's absolutely barbaric.

You can see it here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5453061430615988934

But I warn you - SERIOUSLY - it will turn your mind, not just your stomach.

It's so production line sterile, coldly calculating, and yet utterly brutal.

I think the slaughter in the last 15 minutes is made even worse because there is no music, there is no narration - it's just the events shown in stark relief as they happen.

Nothing to disengage your brain from pure analysis of the events.

And the cattle one is the worst, because you realize he's alive for most of the process.