10 Apr 2004
U.S. Won't Let Company Test All Its Cattle for Mad Cow

The law has run amok: the producer wants to pay for this test, so they can begin selling to Japan again, but the USDA won't let them! Apparently, under the Virus Serum Toxin Act of 1913, the department decides where cattle can be tested and for what.

This is government interference in the free market at it's absolute worst: actively preventing a company from producing a safer product.

The Department of Agriculture refused to allow a Kansas beef producer to test all of its cattle for mad cow disease, saying such sweeping tests are not warranted.

(link) [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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