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Dixie
Oct 2000
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 27-12-2003 11:06
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Dean Blames Bush For Mad Cow And Calls For Aid To Cattle Industry.
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Tired of ads?
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...id=694&ncid=716
Dean Urges Gov't. Aid for Beef Industry
2 hours, 54 minutes ago
By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Friday assailed the Bush administration for failing to set up a livestock tracking system he said could have averted the current mad cow scare and said he supports federal aid to help the American beef industry weather the storm.
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Dean also weighed in for the first time on the news earlier this week that a cow in Washington state has tested positive for mad cow disease, the first such case in the United States.
The former governor, whose state has a large dairy cow population, said the Bush administration failed to aggressively set up a tracking system that would allow the government to quickly track the origins of the sick cow, quarantine other animals it came in contact with and assure the marketplace the rest of the meat supply is safe.
"What we need in this country is instant traceability," he said.
Dean said such a system should have been set up quickly after the mad cow scare that devastated the British beef industry in the mid- to late-1990s. The Bush administration was still devising its plan when the sick cow was slaughtered Dec. 9, and on Friday the government still hadn't determine the infected animal's origins.
"This just shows the complete lack of foresight by the Bush administration once again," Dean said. "This is something that easily could be predicted and was predicted."
Dean said as a result the beef industry will suffer enormously. Officials said Friday 90 percent of the foreign markets for American beef have been closed off because of the announcement.
Asked if he supported a federal economic aid package for the industry, Dean said: "The answer is, yes, of course I do. The question is how much? And we don't know how much yet."
Dean said the government's first job, before the economic damage is calculated, must be to "close down that impact as soon as possible" by tracing the cow's origins and credibly reassuring the American public and the world that the rest of the U.S. beef supply is safe.
As a doctor, Dean said he was more concerned about the impact of the announcement on the U.S. economy than on public health. "The truth is this is going to have a minimal health impact," he said. |
I hear tomorrow, he will blame Bush for the unstable fault line under California and our defeat at the Little Big Horn.
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Comrade Tassadar
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It's not wholly without merit.
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Sava
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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:32
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Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
No I do, but blaming Bush for it is a bit of a stretch. The department of agriculture should have picked up on this one a while ago but Dean is making it sound like it required a presidential edict to make any action happen. |
well is it the most powerful job in the world or is it? does the buck stop there or doesn't it? I'm not saying this is bush's fault or that he's the only one who could have done something about it... and this definitely is just more politics on Dean's part... but he's not wrong.
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And I think the nature of the disease is what makes it so hard to track. The gestation period is four years and less, a heck of a lot of time to track the activity of a cow. Having the government come in and start tracking things might become absurd.
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so the government can't do thing right? how come you don't feel this way when it comes to drug laws?
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As for the tainted feed problem, there could have been some laws regarding quality control, but then we start getting into a trade problem over feed imports, etc... |
AFAIK, mad cow becomes more likely when animals eat their own ****, or feed heavily fertilized by their own ****, or feed made from the same kind of dead animals (i.e. cannibalizing)... it's possible this isn't the case here... I don't know.. but I have to believe that somewhere, there are farmers cutting corners and not being held accountable
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And yes, I think the beef industry should have a few more controls on it. I don't necessarlity trust their lobbying efforts. I've seen one of their spokesperson at the county fair and he might have been boss hogs' brother. |
so if you agree, why are you arguing? if you don't like dean, fine... but don't attack him for being wrong when he isn't being wrong...
this is just politics as usual... dismiss it as such
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