Quite frankly, this: Dean Blasts Bush Over Mad Cow Scare and this: Kerry Urges Livestock Inspection Changes, strike me as snap-positions born of opportunism, not serious policy stances from serious policy-makers.
One has to wonder as to the degree to which this will come across as such in the public eye.
And, to be honest, I don't see this as being an issue that will rock the 2024 presidential contest.
Beyond that even, this strikes me as the kind of silly thing that comes up every four years vis-a-vis running for the presidency insofar as the candidates, especially from the party out of power (either one), act like the President does everything. Let's face facts, the President is hardly the steward of the food supply.
Posted by Steven Taylor at December 28, 2024 09:49 PM | TrackBackIf only one cow has it, and it looks like good steps were taken, then it is a non-issue. And as for tracking, I was amazed at a news report where they seemed to nail down where the beef went (they narrowed it down to 2 slaughterhouses and the meat went to only a few states, if I remembered right).
But let's just concentrate on getting Dean to open up his secret enery meeting records...heh.
Posted by: mark at December 28, 2024 11:19 PM
I have been reading in the news lately that meat is safe? Hunh????
Meat is safe? That’s a good joke! Meat promotes health? That is an advertisement from industry or from Dr. Atkins (and other quacks) who promoted a terrible diet by selling books and products to the gullible. If you think animal products are safe, consider the following:
What animal products do to people:
Promote--
Cancer
Heart attacks
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Strokes
Arthritis
Bursitis
Osteoporosis
Flu
Obesity
E-coli
Mad Cow (CJD in humans)
Salmonella
Allergies
Acid Reflux
Cellulite
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Diabetes
Headaches
Graves Disease
Cirrhosis
Diarrhea
Anemia
Insomnia
Dementia and other mental problems
Emotional problems
Increase costs related to medical care
Increase taxes to aid poor people who come down with medical problems
What animal products do to the environment:
Use up massive supplies of fresh water. (ex. 5000 gallons to make one pound of beef). Lake Ogallala, an underground reservoir larger than Huron that took millions of years to form shall be dry in 2 to 3 generations in order to irrigate crops to feed to live stock.
Use up massive amounts of land to grow grain. (80% of the grain grown is fed to livestock)
Manure pollutes the land and the water with nitrates and pesticides with other poisons. (livestock in the US outweighs people by 5 to 1)
Pollution from nitrates kills off other wildlife that keeps the Earth in balance.
Clear cutting of rainforests in order to graze cattle.
Stripping away of top soil so that neither grains nor trees can grow in some areas.
Using up energy including fossil fuels in order to transport and refrigerate animal products.
Neither list is by any means complete!
Posted by: Anthony at January 13, 2024 07:00 PM
I have been reading in the news lately that meat is safe? Hunh????
Meat is safe? That’s a good joke! Meat promotes health? That is an advertisement from industry or from Dr. Atkins (and other quacks) who promoted a terrible diet by selling books and products to the gullible. If you think animal products are safe, consider the following:
What animal products do to people:
Promote--
Cancer
Heart attacks
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Strokes
Arthritis
Bursitis
Osteoporosis
Flu
Obesity
E-coli
Mad Cow (CJD in humans)
Salmonella
Allergies
Acid Reflux
Cellulite
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Diabetes
Headaches
Graves Disease
Cirrhosis
Diarrhea
Anemia
Insomnia
Dementia and other mental problems
Emotional problems
Increase costs related to medical care
Increase taxes to aid poor people who come down with medical problems
What animal products do to the environment:
Use up massive supplies of fresh water. (ex. 5000 gallons to make one pound of beef). Lake Ogallala, an underground reservoir larger than Huron that took millions of years to form shall be dry in 2 to 3 generations in order to irrigate crops to feed to live stock.
Use up massive amounts of land to grow grain. (80% of the grain grown is fed to livestock)
Manure pollutes the land and the water with nitrates and pesticides with other poisons. (livestock in the US outweighs people by 5 to 1)
Pollution from nitrates kills off other wildlife that keeps the Earth in balance.
Clear cutting of rainforests in order to graze cattle.
Stripping away of top soil so that neither grains nor trees can grow in some areas.
Using up energy including fossil fuels in order to transport and refrigerate animal products.
Neither list is by any means complete!
Posted by: Anthony at January 13, 2024 07:00 PM