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Meat Wagon: How now, mad cow?
'Downergate' reveals gaps in mad-cow testing and trouble in school-lunch sourcing |
Tom Philpott |
14 Mar 2008 |
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| In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries. Remember those 'downer' cows that got forced through the kill line and into the food supply in California's Westland/Hallmark beef-packing plant -- the ones caught on tape by the Humane Society of the United States? Rest assured, friends -- that was an isolated incident. Thus USDA assures us in a recent interview. Only ... not so much. For those who want to believe that downers ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, Big Ag, fashion, food, Food and Drug Administration, industrial ag, TV, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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