Mad Cow-NOW we get the full(er) story

[Celebration]

This is what we first thought happened--

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3229428

WASHINGTON - Confronted with a possible case of mad cow disease last year, the U.S. Agriculture Department failed to perform all of the same rigorous tests it had used to confirm an incident of the brain-wasting ailment back in 2003.

Federal regulators skipped a key test last November that is routinely used elsewhere by experts who say it is, under certain circumstances, more effective for detecting the dread disease...snip

USDA officials did not employ the Western blot test to further verify the IHC results, contending the two tests are "equally effective."

A few days later--

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3948400&mesg_id=3948400

They DID run the test, it was POSITIVE, back in NOVEMBER.

But what did the Secretary of Agriculture reporters?--

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

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.

[sam sarrha]

1. got to check out this link... this is where th real info is on the subject

http://www.maddeer.org there is a lot of links there..

http://www.organicconsumers.org/index.htm