About the USDA's Mad Cow Assurances: Don't Listen

With the USDA/FDA so eager to tell you we're safe from meat from those two recently diagnosed mad cows, consider this: we slaughter 35 million cows in this country for meat.

How many do we test for mad cow?

20,000

With those odds, the possibility that for every diagnosed mad cow, another 1,000 more go undiagnosed is pretty high. Really bad odds.

Here, we don't eat much red meat. When we do, it's locally grown, by farmers who would never think to feed cow parts to those cows. With these odds, if you can't be vegetarian (I've been several times, but recurrent anemia usually drives me back out of it again), know your beef source. If you don't know them, don't buy the beef.