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Americans were justifiably horrified when they saw recent hidden-camera footage on the nightly news of emaciated, scabrous cows being dumped into the food supply that winds up as hamburger meat in schools and prisons and who knows where else. According to Department of Agriculture regulations, those so-called "downer" cattle (those too sick or weak to stand) are not permitted to be placed into the public food-supply chain, for fear of passing on "mad cow" or other horrific diseases. Were the fines increased for meat-processors that skirt the rules? Their corporate owners shunned and contracts canceled? Nope.
Instead, last week, the CheneyBush Administration officially authorized the use of "downer" meat www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022804117.html as fit for human consumption. A few more random inspections were ordered at meat-processing plants, but no systemic overhaul of the limited inspection protocols were devised to increase protection for the public.
"So you caught us red-handed bowing to the meat-processing industry," Bush&Co. seemed to be saying. "What are you going to do about it? Bugger off and get out of our face."
The CheneyBush Administration is probably the most secretive in U.S. history. It doesn't like anybody looking over its shoulder and knowing what it's up to, mainly because so much of what it's up to is either immoral, illegal or the result of massive corruption, often all three at the same time.
CheneyBush have been especially secretive about the many and various ways they've mangled and decimated the Constitution, especially in how the massive intelligence-gathering techniques available to it have been marshaled to data-mine and spy on American citizens. New technologies have enabled federal agents to secretly enter citizens' computers, read their personal email, tap their telephones, etc., without those victimized ever knowing. Such privacy violations are done, of course, in the name of "fighting the war on terrorism."
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