Thursday, May 1, 2008

Twice as much sauce as noodles...

Sounds like an atkins thing. Or a noodle-hater.
Widely traveled, and has cooked with Rachel Ray, now he'll talk about downer cows.
We waited until 2004 to stop allowing downer cows into the food supply, and the USDA brought downer cows back, pending veterinarian examination.
Problem: You need to biopsy cow brains to find spongiform encephalitis (mad cow), which no vet is going to do, and no existing group of vets will be able to do for all the downer cows.
Conflict of interest? Yes. Flawed data? Maybe.
Real problem? Economics and cost-cutting reduces the quality of treatment and feed of cows, and farming is already horribly over-subsidized in the US. Botswana, where there are more cows than people, currently is supposed to have no mad cow. Can you buy Botswanan beef? No.
Best slip? "Inhumane Society."
What did the policy do? Remove mad cow controls.