Friday, August 29, 2008

US Court: No, you can't ensure all your meat is mad-cow free...

Ok, I found this, and I just HAD to tell you about it. This is truely idiotic.. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-08-29-mad-cow_N.htm?csp=34) A US court is actually banning a meat company from testing their meat for mad cow disease. Generally just a portion of a company's meat is tested for mad cow. This company wants to test ALL of their meat for mad cow, so they can advertise it as having tested mad-cow-free. Other meat companies apparently don't like competing in the free market, so they asked, and the judge agreed, not to allow the company to test it on the grounds that consumers would want the other companies to test all of their meat. The other companies said that would be too expensive. Apparently the judge agreed and is banning the company from testing all their meat. Can you really believe this?

Raymond
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