Media AWOL on Mad Cow Story: Bush Adm. In Trouble

[MrTriumph]

Last week: The Right Wing Media tells us Bush will get a HUGE election boost in the polls from US troops catching SH. He didn't.

This week: The administation blows the effort to keep mad cow out of the states. Seems to me the media should point out financially hit cattle ranchers are likely to remember Bush was AWOL in protecting stock from MCD and as a result Bush's election chances sag.

[terryg11]

1. huh. It's all I've heard on the news it seems

local and national have been playing it to death in my opinion.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Bush gave the beef industry the regulations they wanted. nt

nt

[Must_B_Free]

3. they made their own bed

those hogs are now getting slaughtered...

[Shadowen]

4. Not to sound nationalist...

...but don't talk about "financially-hit cattle ranchers" until the US cattle industry loses an amount of money in proportion to what cattle farmers in Canada did when the US (and the rest of the world, but mainly the US) closed its borders for months because of a single case of BSE.

[MrTriumph]

7. Fair enough, Shadowen

Fair enough, Shadowen.

As someone who is in the cattle business, I can only imagine the pain Canadian raisers have felt. In fact I KNOW their pain.

Here in Texas, we've had low cattle prices for almost 10 years. And not to sound like a whiner, but for those 10 years cattle raising has been a money losing endeavor. (Briefly, because of cattle over-population, underconsumption by consumers, drought, consolidation of beef buyers to control the market, and to a lesser extent, low priced foreign competition from S. America).

2003 has been a profitable year until this week.

The point of my thread was to say Bush should be in BIG trouble with cattle raisers.

[Deesh]

5. Cows

President Bush is a cowboy, isn't he? Heck, he can get to the bottom of this mad cow business. Yessir. We're in good hands with the cowboy president.

Git 'em, George.

[randr]

6. Democracy Now

I am listening to a report on the Mad Cow issue right now on Democracy Now w/ Amy Goodman. Incredible!

[opihimoimoi]

8. The answer is so simple, ban the food that allows MCD to occur.

Cattle are herbivores not carnivores.

Who thought of feeding them meat by products making them cannibles.??

Feed our cattle grass and grain for Gods sake.

[undergroundpanther]

9. Sick...

Here is more on BSE

http://www.prwatch.org/books/mcusa.pdf

[undergroundpanther]

11. Cannibal cows

Profit for greedy people is what makes cows into cannibals.
When farmers think it's ok to make your feed dollar stretch with a heaping helping of growth hormones,antibiotics and...roadkill,dead pet corpses from your local animal shelter,your dead pets you leave at the vet..downer cows,
It all gets combined and rendered down into fats and protiens which is put into a feed that looks like brown sugar,that is in effect making cows cannibals.Because it's cheap and produces MORE than what is naturally possible it is used..

Is Alzhiemers just mad cow mutating again?

Screw all the ranchers and to hell with the political old boy network system and wall street protecting the money interests,even if it kills all of us.People OVER Profit is how things should be but it is NOT and it is destroying everything..Common sense,is for people thinking of selling a product,to put the effort into finding out if a product is safe BEFORE it is sold.Industry must learn how to PROVE safety before you DARE sell itI don't care if it's expensive public safety overrides Money in a SANE society this long forgotten SANITY,is accountability responsibility to your fellow human beings on a planet we all share,and it's basic humanity.Our country has LOST it's ethics and wisdom in persuit of money power and dominion..Take the PROFIT out of the food industry if you want to have safe food for all people.As long as there is a motive to make PROFIT,by cutting costs on producing food ,greed will always have it's way.And we the eaters of bad food will reap the consequences of this greed,as the rich buy thier way around it.

The beef industry and rending industries, like all other industries looking to pretty up what they do,uses P.R.,disinformation,lies and spins like crazy because I believe the industry leaders, know the truth of what is happening to our food,in the hands of greed. They know it would cause a riot..if the unglier workings of the industry was ever understood by the public.I think an in your face,public backlash and public shame,a refusal to buy,and perhaphs people who consume the products taking control of the means of production from the corrupted Ceos,lackeys,brownnosers,egomaniacs posing as"scientists", and incompetant government agencies who are corrupted,bribed and cowarded out of doing the job they are supposed to do,all this coming out into the public eye does scare all these greedy people making money off keeping things as they are...Money to them overides the public safety,whether they say it to you or not it doesen't matter one bit.Ignore the media and press releases,look at thier actions,with your OWN eyes,Visit a rending plant,visit a slaughterhouse...unnanounced..Does a horrible tragedy have to hit YOUR house before you organize with others? Does your kid have to die before you give a shit about what industries do?
Denial and silence it helps nobody when it comes to public safety.

This is how I feel about this issue.

[twilight]

10. another book ...

I just got it about 2 weeks ago - called "Deadly Feasts" by Rhodes. Costs about $11.00 a bn.com - more at amazon.com ....

Scarey stuff!!!! :scared:

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