Japan's 10th Mad Cow

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I see this:

"Japan Confirms 10th Mad Cow Disease Case
02/22 2:31a CST TOKYO (AP)
Japanese authorities on Sunday confirmed the nation's 10th case of mad cow disease since the first sick animal was discovered in September 2001.

The Heath Ministry made the announcement a day after saying it suspected the nearly 8-year-old Holstein had the brain-wasting illness.

The dairy cow tested positive for the disease known formally as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, at a slaughterhouse outside Tokyo on Friday and again in a follow-up screening at a national laboratory on Saturday.

Experts were scheduled to review the findings on Sunday but the ministry said in a statement it had bypassed that procedure because the test results were typical for an infected cow.

The animal was slaughtered but its meat and organs had not gone on the market. They will be incinerated, the ministry said.

Sixty other dairy cows at the sick Holstein's farm were quarantined, it said.

Japan was the first country to find an infected cow outside of Europe, where it has devastated cattle farms...."

If all cattle are tested, with deseased cattle removed... should it even matter any more that more testing creates more mad cows?

[cowman]

It doesn't make one difference to the Japanese consumer, because they know their domestic beef is now safe. If the Americans suceed it forcing open the Japanese market to untested American beef then I suspect you will see consumption fall unless it is segregated?
The solution for BSE is so simple...test everything! And yet our government and the Americans are so against it! Why? Well the people who really matter are making record profits so why would they(and their bought politicians) want anything to change? The fact is all the so called cattle organizations are in reality packer organizations, doesn't help?
The cow/calf producer, the feeder, the consumer, and ultimately the grain farmer are expendable in the eyes of the multinational meat oligarchy.