Mad cow in the USA!!! Bush's ag sec'y upset that test was done!

[Bluebear]

Big Agriculture press conference . . .

It takes 8 months to confirm a case of mad cow? (November was first test of this animal.) I guess they save these little tidbits for when they REALLY need them. ;)

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On another note, let's go back a half hour and see how Bush's Ag secretary felt before he knew the test result:

JUN. 24 3:07 P.M. ET Amid uproar from cattlemen, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns questioned why his department's inspector general ordered new tests for mad cow disease two weeks ago without his knowledge or approval.

"It caught me by surprise, to be very honest with you," Johanns told reporters Friday. "I believe the secretary should be involved in all decisions of this significance."

The department said it would announce results of the tests Friday afternoon.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8AU5K200.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down

[babylonsister]

1. Friday pm news dump?Yep, the blivet's keeping us safe! nt

[Bluebear]

2. updated: Ag secy was mad the test was done!

[KlatooBNikto]

22. Does he have the Mad Cow Disease?

[kevinmc]

3. Dump it Friday Evening...I Hate These People. n/t

[undeterred]

4. Nothing like being appointed to a Cabinet position and then finding out

you're totally out of the loop.

[medeak]

5. do ##sh or Cheney have cattle on their ranches? n/t

[Bluebear]

6. No, just brush. n/t

[MisterP]

18. actually, Bush does: they TALK BACK TO HIM, he says

and don't the Browns always yell that the Greens (not just the party)are "anti-human."

[babylonsister]

21. Doesn't he milk them? Oh, horses, my bad. nt

[alfredo]

7. Neither one can be called a ranch. Estate is a better word.

[Bluebear]

11. Estate is a perfect word.

Keep using it, show how elitist this "regular guy" really is!

[Modem Butterfly]

8. Cool! Cheap beef!

Just avoid the oxtail stew people...

[medeak]

9. 8 months and they still don't know where cow came from? n/t

[Bluebear]

10. First test was "inconclusive"

And now the Ag is bitching that a confirmatory test was done. :crazy:

[Javaman]

12. Because he knew you are a shill for moron*, that's why...

"It caught me by surprise, to be very honest with you," Johanns told reporters Friday. "I believe the secretary should be involved in all decisions of this significance."

here's something for you to chew on jackass, go have a nice big thick piece of fuck you!

The inspector general had to go behind your back because he know you would turn down his request and any evidence would be buried you heartless fucker.

[Bluebear]

13. That says it all, javaman. n/t

[SoCalDem]

14. and to think that beef is only $8 a pound..

and we are paying a premium to poison ourselves.. such a deal !!!

[Bluebear]

16. "Eat steak, eat steak, eat a big ol' steer" commercial on CNN

right now! LOL!

[SoCalDem]

17. I HATE HATE HATE that stupid commercial

:grr:

some ad guy must have taken the brown acid when he wrote that one

[Karmadillo]

15. Perhaps the administration will suggest people consider going vegan.

http://www.goveg.com/feat/a-favs-intro.asp

Every year in the U.S., more than 25 billion animals are slaughtered for food. Raising animals on factory farms is cruel and ecologically devastating. Eating animals is bad for our health, leading directly to many diseases and illnesses, including heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes, and obesity.

For animals

Animals on factory farms are treated like machines. Within days of birth, for example, chickens have their beaks seared off with a hot blade. Male cows and pigs are castrated without painkillers. All of these animals spend their brief lives in crowded and ammonia-filled conditions, many of them so cramped that they can't even turn around or spread a wing. Many do not get a breath of fresh air until they are prodded and crammed onto trucks for a nightmarish ride to the slaughterhouse, often through weather extremes and always without food or water. The animals are hung upside down and their throats are sliced open, often while they're fully conscious.

For the environment

Today's factory farms use everything but the "moo," "cluck," and "oink" — but in the process, they leave behind an environmental devastation that generations to come will be forced to clean up. Raising animals for food requires more than half the water used in the United States and is the biggest polluter of our water and topsoil. Coyotes and other animals are poisoned and shot by western cattle ranchers who consider federal land to be their land for grazing. Our country's meat addiction is slowly poisoning and depleting our land, water, and air.

… And for YOU!

The only two researchers in human history who have successfully reversed heart disease, by far America's biggest killer, have included an exclusively vegetarian diet as a part of their programs. On the Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn programs, patients become "heart attack proof" (to quote Dr. Esselstyn, in the August 1999 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology) by getting their cholesterol levels to below 150 (the average vegan cholesterol level is 128), the level below which no one has ever been documented as having died from a heart attack. And people who consume animal products are also 40 percent more susceptible to cancer, and at increased risk for many other illnesses, including stroke, obesity, appendicitis, osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, and food poisoning. Additionally, meat contains accumulations of pesticides and other chemicals up to 14 times more concentrated than those in plant foods.

more...

[Javaman]

19. or at least eat organic beef.

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. Should the Agriculture Secretary be held for manslaughter charges

if it's proven that there IS a widespread of Mad Cow in the U.S.? Didn't the French file charges against someone in the government that covered up HIV infected blood donations? Wouldn't this be about the same kind of oversight?