CALIFORNIA: Meat roulette - (Los Angeles Times)
February 25, 2008 – 8:31 pmhttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-cook25feb25,0,5098350.story
Christopher D. Cook, the author of “Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis”
(christopherdcook.com) writes that nauseating as it was, last week’s record-setting beef recall and the apparent feeding of meat from crippled “downer” cattle to our nation’s children and others should come as little surprise. Although egregious to the point of obscenity, this latest meat scandal fits a pattern of regulatory anemia — the byproduct of a decades-long bipartisan assault on “big government” — that has opened the floodgates to all sorts of contamination shenanigans. The deregulated chickens, cows and pigs have come home to roost.
Coming on the heels of 21 beef recalls in 2007, this latest meat fiasco was followed by predictable and inadequate responses by apologists and critics alike. U.S. Department of Agriculture officials — who, disturbingly, are charged with both promoting and monitoring our food supply — trotted out the standard […]
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