Re: OFF TOPIC, Sorry, But This Infuriates Me!


"Fit E. Cal" <yalum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 30, 12:33?pm, "Elvis Kabong" <ampscie...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
USDA to free market: Go Cheney yourself.

by Kagro X
Wed May 30, 2007 at 12:00:11 PM PDT
You're not gonna believe this one. Oh wait, of course you will:

The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing
all
their animals for mad cow disease.

You read that right. The Bush "administration" will fight to keep meatpackers from
testing their animals for mad cow disease.

WTF? How does stupid *** like this always end up happening?

A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants
to
test all of its cows.

Great! Wonderful! Everybody's gonna want their meat from Creekstone Farms! Free
enterprise at its best! Give the people what they want!

Not so fast, says the "administration." The people can go Cheney themselves.

But why? Why the hell would anyone get in the way of something like that? And on
what
grounds?

Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone should test its meat
and
advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive tests on their
larger
herds as well.

The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing
could
lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry.

Oh my God. F this. Are you kidding me?

I'm at a loss here. But thankfully, Rick Perlstein at .common sense is not:

First, observe the contempt for liberty. When E. coli conservatives say
self-regulation
is preferable to government, they're even lying about that. Second, observe the
contempt
for small business. When a small company want to - voluntarily! - hold its product
to a
higher standard, the government blocks it, in part because bigger companies have to
be
protected from the competition, in part because a theoretical threat to the bottom
line
(false positives) trumps protection against a deadly disease.

There's your conservatism, America: not extremism in defense of liberty. State
socialism
in defense of Mad Cow.

~Daily Kos

Meat is murder.

Of course, the sea is pretty much game and I'm not giving up chicken -
yet. :-) mvm

heh heh, but Marc, it's not the meat issue, it's the health issue and the
small business vs corporations issue and most of all a rotten
corrupt Duhbya adminstration hypocritically interferring
with free enterprise on the side of the already too powerful inhumane
corporations who don't give a damn about people as long as they can
suck up as much money as they can with the help of the Bush Crime Family.

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