republicans: the anti-government
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.Yes, you read that right. Not only does the USDA not mandate full testing (or even random sampling), they went to court to PREVENT a small business from doing so. And, no, this is not an Onion article.
The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows.
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.
Republican governance looks less like small government and more like ‘anti-government’. Small government intervenes less in in the private lives of it’s citizens. Anti-government actively screws over it’s own citizens at the behest of industry.
- (via untravel)
