More testing for mad cow reduces American confidence.
March/24/06 12:59 AM
Mr
President,
By refusing, to allow 100 percent testing of cows the USDA has struck a blow for sanity in the war against unwarranted fear mongering.
A single cow was recently identified with mad cow disease in Alabama, but it is no reason for us to loose our nerve, after all it was only one cow.
Since June 2004, the department has tested 0.68 percent of all cows.
As a matter of fact, the USDA is wisely preparing to reduce the number of cows tested. You now test 0.68 percent of all cows, and this high rate was only to be a temporary measure.
To highlight the excellent health of American cows the USDA has obviously refused to implement 100 percent testing of meat products in the United States.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a Kansas meat packer has dared to sue the department because it was not allowed to test for the disease in every animal.
The idea that Creekstone Farms Premium Beef knows better than the federal government is appalling and it is just something else the terrorists love to see.
The USDA had wisely refused to allow 100 percent testing of beef products. The reason is probably that if we began to test every meat product it would show a lack of faith in our cattle ranchers and our cows.
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns pointed out testing is not a food safety measure. Rather, it's a way to find out the prevalence of the disease.Higher testing levels were intended to be temporary when they were announced two years ago.
Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Saxby Chambliss recently said U.S. beef "is absolutely safe and should be imported to every country around the world, including Korea.
If Asian countries want 100 percent testing they are free to test it after they receive it? I imagine some Japanese engineer can come up with some sort of portable meat tester that homeowners can use.
If 100 percent tasting is mandated, it would increase the cost to the consumer and hurt the American economy.
Don't people understand that dealing with global warming and this testing for mad cow nonsense is bad for business?
Japan can burn rice wine for fuel? In the global war against Iran, it is only natural to cut all business ties. If our allies are truly our partners against our enemies, they would abide by our rules.
According to U.S. government sources quoted by the daily Sankei Shimbun, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and Undersecretary of State Robert Joseph informally asked Japan to at least temporarily suspend its plans to develop Azadegan.
When you asked Japan to pull out of deal, they had with Iran to develop an Iranian oil field; they should have immediately stopped the deal.
It is not your fault Japan is resource-poor. Japan had been planning to develop Iran's Azadegan oil field, estimated to hold the world's second-biggest single oil reserve, Japan sealed a deal with Iran two years ago on a billion-dollar project to develop Azadegan.
Earlier this month, John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, urged Japan to work with Washington, saying that he understood Japan's difficult energy situation but that the global community had to work together to combat nuclear proliferation.
Japan imported almost all of its crude oil needs amounting to 4.2 million barrels per day (bpd) last year, and about 90 percent of the volume was supplied by Middle Eastern producers. Japan, Asia's second-biggest oil user, imported 13.8 percent of its oil from Iran in 2005, ranking the country as Japan's third-largest supplier after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
After everything we have done for Japan their Vice Trade Minister Hideji Sugiyama said they won't give up an Iranian oilfield project.
They said that it wouldn't do any good if they stopped the oil field project because China would buy into it and Iran would still get the business.
I think we should stop buying their cars, their TV's their stereo's, their computers, their game consoles, and all their other exports.
We should put America first and buy that stuff from China instead.
I did not receive the normal thank you for writing auto-response from the White House.
By refusing, to allow 100 percent testing of cows the USDA has struck a blow for sanity in the war against unwarranted fear mongering.
A single cow was recently identified with mad cow disease in Alabama, but it is no reason for us to loose our nerve, after all it was only one cow.
Since June 2004, the department has tested 0.68 percent of all cows.
As a matter of fact, the USDA is wisely preparing to reduce the number of cows tested. You now test 0.68 percent of all cows, and this high rate was only to be a temporary measure.
To highlight the excellent health of American cows the USDA has obviously refused to implement 100 percent testing of meat products in the United States.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a Kansas meat packer has dared to sue the department because it was not allowed to test for the disease in every animal.
The idea that Creekstone Farms Premium Beef knows better than the federal government is appalling and it is just something else the terrorists love to see.
The USDA had wisely refused to allow 100 percent testing of beef products. The reason is probably that if we began to test every meat product it would show a lack of faith in our cattle ranchers and our cows.
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns pointed out testing is not a food safety measure. Rather, it's a way to find out the prevalence of the disease.Higher testing levels were intended to be temporary when they were announced two years ago.
Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Saxby Chambliss recently said U.S. beef "is absolutely safe and should be imported to every country around the world, including Korea.
If Asian countries want 100 percent testing they are free to test it after they receive it? I imagine some Japanese engineer can come up with some sort of portable meat tester that homeowners can use.
If 100 percent tasting is mandated, it would increase the cost to the consumer and hurt the American economy.
Don't people understand that dealing with global warming and this testing for mad cow nonsense is bad for business?
Japan can burn rice wine for fuel? In the global war against Iran, it is only natural to cut all business ties. If our allies are truly our partners against our enemies, they would abide by our rules.
According to U.S. government sources quoted by the daily Sankei Shimbun, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and Undersecretary of State Robert Joseph informally asked Japan to at least temporarily suspend its plans to develop Azadegan.
When you asked Japan to pull out of deal, they had with Iran to develop an Iranian oil field; they should have immediately stopped the deal.
It is not your fault Japan is resource-poor. Japan had been planning to develop Iran's Azadegan oil field, estimated to hold the world's second-biggest single oil reserve, Japan sealed a deal with Iran two years ago on a billion-dollar project to develop Azadegan.
Earlier this month, John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, urged Japan to work with Washington, saying that he understood Japan's difficult energy situation but that the global community had to work together to combat nuclear proliferation.
Japan imported almost all of its crude oil needs amounting to 4.2 million barrels per day (bpd) last year, and about 90 percent of the volume was supplied by Middle Eastern producers. Japan, Asia's second-biggest oil user, imported 13.8 percent of its oil from Iran in 2005, ranking the country as Japan's third-largest supplier after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
After everything we have done for Japan their Vice Trade Minister Hideji Sugiyama said they won't give up an Iranian oilfield project.
They said that it wouldn't do any good if they stopped the oil field project because China would buy into it and Iran would still get the business.
I think we should stop buying their cars, their TV's their stereo's, their computers, their game consoles, and all their other exports.
We should put America first and buy that stuff from China instead.
I did not receive the normal thank you for writing auto-response from the White House.