E. Coli Conservatives

Redux:

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But Arkansas City-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows.

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The Agriculture Department argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry. U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it.

They must have already contracted mad cow. Read the whole thing, which is nothing short of pathetic. To these folks, government of the people, by the people, for the people only refers to themselves and their buddies.

E. Coli Conservatives

Are at it again:

A Michigan meat packer is recalling 129,000 pounds of beef because it may be contaminated with the E. coli bacteria.
The firm, Davis Creek Meats and Seafood, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, shipped the beef products between March 1 and April 30, according to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The potentially-contaminated meat was shipped to foodservice distribution centers
and Marketplace stores in Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Federal safety inspectors were not involved in the discovery. Rather, the problem was uncovered by state health officials carrying out the Michigan Department of Community Health’s ongoing E coli illness investigation.

Republican strategy: Say that government does not work, get elected, wreck government, thereby proving one's point. Rinse and repeat.