How about a compromise?
The USDA gets to have a 100% monopoly on all Mad Cow testing, with anyone else trying to test being a felony on par with murder. In return, should there be any
Mad Cow outbreak in the United States (including and expanded to all US territories and protectorates and anywhere the USDA has right to hold an inspection),
then the upper management of the USDA is decimated. In the original definition of the word.
Extreme? Maybe (fine, certainly). But when we're talking about something as devastating and incurable as Mad Cow disease I have to wonder about the sanity
of anyone who is opposing additional testing, especially self-paid testing. It would be one thing if the guy had wanted to do additional testing and then pass
the bill to the USDA. But if he wants to pay for it himself then let him do it.
I'm all for telling people they can't make any unsupported claims in their advertising (part of my problem with the people who want rBGH labeling on
milk), but banning any 3rd party testing? As far as I am concerned as soon as the first person suggested that they should have been asked, "So, you are
willing to accept full, personal, responsibility and liability for beef safety?"
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.
The USDA gets to have a 100% monopoly on all Mad Cow testing, with anyone else trying to test being a felony on par with murder. In return, should there be any
Mad Cow outbreak in the United States (including and expanded to all US territories and protectorates and anywhere the USDA has right to hold an inspection),
then the upper management of the USDA is decimated. In the original definition of the word.
Extreme? Maybe (fine, certainly). But when we're talking about something as devastating and incurable as Mad Cow disease I have to wonder about the sanity
of anyone who is opposing additional testing, especially self-paid testing. It would be one thing if the guy had wanted to do additional testing and then pass
the bill to the USDA. But if he wants to pay for it himself then let him do it.
I'm all for telling people they can't make any unsupported claims in their advertising (part of my problem with the people who want rBGH labeling on
milk), but banning any 3rd party testing? As far as I am concerned as soon as the first person suggested that they should have been asked, "So, you are
willing to accept full, personal, responsibility and liability for beef safety?"
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.