Bush Administration's Mad Cow Testing Regimen Found To Be Faulty

by Steve

"The protocol we developed just a few years ago to conduct the tests might not be the best option today. Science is ever evolving."
-- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, admitting that science is important, even if your administration routinely ignores it

So now we find out that the Bush Administration, to please the cattle industry no doubt, has been using a “gold standard” test to detect mad cow disease that in fact is garbage, and it took the Brits and a seven-month delay by the Department of Agriculture for us to find this out?

Swell. Food safety is just another issue for the Democrats to run on in 2006.