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How Now Mad Cow
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by Barbara D'Amato There I was, minding my own business as I always do, reading the news, running my eye down the headlines. A story said COURT: US CAN BACK MAD COW TESTING. Fine, I thought. My government is protecting me. I went on to the next story. Wait! That didn’t seem like what I had read. No, it was COURT: US CAN BLOCK MAD COW TESTING A federal court of appeals has decided in a case brought by Creekstone Farms Premium Beef that the administration can forbid meat packers from testing their beef animals for mad cow disease. What? The US Department of Agriculture tests one per cent of US beef animals for mad cow disease.
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