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Judge: Government must allow meatpackers' tests for mad cow
Mohave Daily News ^
| Thursday, March 29, 2007
Posted on 03/31/2007 8:41:03 PM PDT by A. Pole
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posted on
03/31/2007 8:41:04 PM PDT
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A. Pole
To: Willie Green; Wolfie; ex-snook; Jhoffa_; FITZ; arete; FreedomPoster; Red Jones; Pyro7480; ...
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a meatpacker based in Arkansas City, Kan., wants to test all of its cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. Larger meat companies feared that move because if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they could be forced to do the expensive test, too. Bump
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posted on
03/31/2007 8:44:06 PM PDT
by
A. Pole
(Aeschylus "Memory is the mother of all wisdom.")
To: A. Pole
Well, it's a puzzle to me I guess. A company wants to make sure the meat is not diseased, and the Government won't let them test. Okkkkk
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posted on
03/31/2007 8:44:54 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
To: Enterprise
in japan every animal is tested. here, a few are sampled
from places where it is unlikely, and can be covered up, if found.
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posted on
03/31/2007 8:48:38 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Diogenesis
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posted on
03/31/2007 8:49:20 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
To: Enterprise
the free market in action. One company wants to make their product more competitive by advertising 100% testing..just like "organic"..it will sell. More power to them.
The govt can't guarantee the safety of our food..but the free market can.
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posted on
03/31/2007 8:52:37 PM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: A. Pole
The government is protecting companies who don't want to test. Good job guv! Thankful there are still some sane judges.
To: A. Pole
Widespread testing for mad cow could destroy the beef industry.
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posted on
03/31/2007 9:27:07 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Enterprise
As long as the Department of Agriculture can carefully select the test subjects, then public confidence in the meat supply can be maintained.
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posted on
03/31/2007 9:29:00 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: A. Pole
Larger meat companies feared that moveBetcha' it is the unions who are actually raising the cleaver.
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posted on
03/31/2007 9:37:27 PM PDT
by
quantim
(2008 => I'll take an imperfect winner over a perfect loser.)
To: A. Pole
The department threatened Creekstone with prosecution if it tested all its animals. The government wants to prosecute people for voluntarily testing its cows? Have they gone mad????
To: ColdSteelTalon
Have they gone mad????
LOL!
Yes.
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posted on
03/31/2007 10:37:56 PM PDT
by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
To: A. Pole; Abram; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
"The department threatened Creekstone with prosecution if it tested all its animals."
When you've think you've seen it all alert....
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
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posted on
03/31/2007 10:49:01 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: A. Pole
thanks for posting this, it is one of the most unbelievable, but illustrative stories I've run across in a long time. :)
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posted on
03/31/2007 10:54:27 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: A. Pole
I am willing to bet that the cows in the slaughter house are plenty mad. No testing required.
To: Oldexpat
Yeah. Tell that to Menu Foods.
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posted on
03/31/2007 10:59:32 PM PDT
by
TxCopper
To: traviskicks; robertpaulsen
You sure got THAT right!!! But I bet bobby paulsen would STILL side with the government on this one...
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posted on
03/31/2007 11:04:10 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
To: PAR35
"Widespread testing for mad cow could destroy the beef industry."
Based on what? The Japaneses test every cow/steer.. I haven't heard it has stopped their demand for beef.
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posted on
04/01/2007 12:27:10 AM PDT
by
JSteff
To: JSteff
Based upon the tinfoil theory that the government has a reason to not want the testing done - they are afraid that the results will show that the mad cow prions are more widespread than people have been told.
If there is nothing to hide, why are they trying so hard to hide it.
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posted on
04/01/2007 12:42:24 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Oldexpat; ninenot; sittnick; steve50; Hegemony Cricket; Cicero; GarySpFc; Wolfie; ex-snook; FITZ; ..
the free market in action. [...] The govt can't guarantee the safety of our food..but the free market can. Actually the lesson is a little different. This is about the dispute within government (courts are government too).
One part of government wanted to side with larger, more powerful and wealthier corporations, the other took side of the smaller weaker player.
The market has to be regulated in PROPER way, in a way that the wealth does not concentrate too much (that is why we have anti-trust laws) and that weaker or poorer players are supported (this includes individual workers/trade unions and small businesses).
Once the concentration of wealth passes certain threshold, the strongest will acquire such leverage that market will stop to be free and average citizens will be disfranchised. See my tagline.
The difficulty is in finding what is the proper balance. Unfortunately we cannot have an easy ideological formula like the one used by Free Market Fundamentalists or Socialist. Real world is complex and we are doomed to improvise and to struggle with contradictions.
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posted on
04/01/2007 5:09:16 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
(G.K. Chesterton: "Too much capitalism means not too many capitalists, but too few.")
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