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October 11, 2008

Slaughterhouse blues

diet for a dead planetIn today’s LAT, Christopher D. Cook, the author of Diet for a Dead Planet, chews over the big beef recall and its dirty backstory. He writes:

Nauseating as it was, last week’s record-setting beef recall and the apparent feeding of meat from crippled “downer” cattle to our nation’s children and others should come as little surprise. Although egregious to the point of obscenity, this latest meat scandal fits a pattern of regulatory anemia — the byproduct of a decades-long bipartisan assault on “big government” — that has opened the floodgates to all sorts of contamination shenanigans. The deregulated chickens, cows and pigs have come home to roost.

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Posted by Donna Wares, February 25th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Commentary, Food, Politics/government, Shades of evil
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