Government to Meat Packers: You Can't Test Your Meat

   This would be more shit under the Bush plan of less government, more market.

   USAToday

A federal appeals court says the government can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease.

Because the Agriculture Department tests only a small percentage of cows for the deadly disease, Kansas meatpacker Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows. The government says it can't.

Larger meat companies worry that if Creekstone is allowed to perform the test and advertise its meat as safe, they could be forced to do the expensive test, too.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that would have cleared the way for the testing. The appeals court said restricting the test is within the scope of the government's authority.

  So the Court of Appeals is telling us that the packing companies cannot fully test the meat that they will sell to us? What the fuck is wrong with this picture? If Creekstone wishes to run the tests on all of their cattle and bear the cost, then why can't the bigger companies do likewise?

   These companies are selling us a product which we eat on an almost daily basis and they don't want to have to test all of their goods before selling to us, which should be made a mandatory requirement in the first place.

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