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August 30, 2008 / Politics

Where’s the Mad Cow Disease Beef?

Had Milk!

So, say you raise beef and you want to assure your customers that your product is safe and mad cow disease free. And let’s just say you want to spend your own money to test all of your cattle.

You can’t.

Beef exporters are banned from testing their cattle for mad cow disease without approval from the government, which has exclusive control on test kits, a divided federal appeals court panel said today.

[From The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times : Court: Beef Exporters Can’t Test for Mad Cow Disease]

Makes as much sense Palin for Vice President.
(Was that a cheap shot? Yes, yes it was.)

(Via Slashdot)

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