Big boys benefit as USDA polices labels

[nosmokes]

ain't it funny how it works? the USDA will go balls to the walls to protect an entrenched plankholder of the big corporate/chem/bio/ag cabal but an entity actually involved in agriculture is tossed to the wolves, as it were. sound science. heh.
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Alan Guebert



Tuesday, April 17, 2007

In the upside down world of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's current leaders, sound science is what they say it is and food safety seems to be what is best for agribusiness. Every differing idea or person has a nearly perfect chance of being ignored, talked to death or litigated to death.

Take the case of Creekstone Farms, the small, Kansas-based premium beef slaughterer and seller. Four months after America's first BSE-positive, or mad, cow was discovered in December 2003, USDA denied Creekstone's request to voluntarily test its slaughter cattle for BSE. The private testing, argued Creekstone, was a reasonable, market-based approach to ease customer concerns - especially its highly valued Japanese customers - over the safety of U.S. beef.

Not so, said USDA and its big packer backers.
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