{"id":438,"date":"2008-09-02T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2008-09-02T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T14:44:47","slug":"bush-administration-blocks-mad-cow-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/bush-administration-blocks-mad-cow-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush administration blocks Mad Cow testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another Stupendously Idiotic Display of Moronic Ineptitude &#8482;, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gLzqdHsMBuQV9h5k-kVnabJDsj1AD92S3BT80\">Bush administration has blocked a Kansas meat packing company from testing<\/a> 100% of it&#8217;s cows for Mad Cow disease.  Large packers objected to Creekstone Farms Premium Beef company testing all of it&#8217;s cows because they might then be forced to follow suit once Creekstone could label their beef &#8220;100%&#8221; tested.  <\/p>\n<p>The Agriculture department only tests 1% of cows, because &#8220;the disease is so rare&#8221;.  I like the point made on <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>:  then this should apply to the TSA, and only 1% of passengers should be checked at the airport (terrorists are, actually, *rare*).<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly the tests could be blocked, because the USDA can regulate &#8220;treatments&#8221;, and the appeals judge ruled this a treatment.  Note, however, that the tests are done on *dead* cows, and there is no cure for Mad Cow disease.  I do not see how this is a treatment, unless the cows suddenly come back to life.  Idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another Stupendously Idiotic Display of Moronic Ineptitude &#8482;, the Bush administration has blocked a Kansas meat packing company from testing 100% of it&#8217;s cows for Mad Cow disease. Large packers objected to Creekstone Farms Premium Beef company testing all of it&#8217;s cows because they might then be forced to follow suit once Creekstone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}