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To: tonto who wrote (518390)1/2/2004 9:47:20 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (8) | Respond to of 769670
 
Japan has safer beef than the US. Why? Because they test each and every animal slaughtered.



To: tonto who wrote (518390)1/2/2004 11:19:33 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Just as the FDA bureaucrats are largely a captive of the pharmaceutical interests they are supposed to regulate (with 'public health' concerns taking a back seat to protecting the industry's revenue streams from competition), I believe that the Agriculture Department is similarly 'in-the-pocket' of the interests they are supposed to be regulating.