Your Government at Work

Yes, the US Department of Agriculture is taking cattle ranchers to court to prevent them from doing Mad Cow tests on beef intended for export.

A number of foreign customers, particularly the Japanese, are demanding this, but the Ag Department wants to prevent testing, because it might "confuse" consumers.

The real reason is that they are in big beef's pocket, and they are fairly sure that if testing were done, they would get some native home grown positives.