Mike the Usurper wrote:

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

I couldn't make up a clusterfuck of these proportions. They're now blatantly fighting to make food LESS SAFE. Send these idiots back to whatever rock they crawled out from under and bury it.

The USDA has never tested all meat, ever. Nor have meatpackers. Its a spot check system. Always has been. Checking every piece of meat is no more practical than checking every cargo container. Absurd.

RE: U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow - International Herald Tribune