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Federal court blocks beef exporter from testing for Mad Cow disease

The USDA tests 1% of cattle of Mad Cow disease.

Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef Exporters wants to test 100% of its cattle for Mad Cow disease.

But the Bush administration took Creekstone to court, and a US federal appeals court ruled that the USDA has the authority to stop meatpackers from testing more than 1% of its cattle.

The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which tests about 1 percent of cows for the potentially deadly disease, against a Kansas meat packer that wants to test all its animals.

Larger meat packers opposed such testing. If Creekstone Farms Premium Beef began advertising that its cows have all been tested, other companies fear they too will have to conduct the expensive tests.

The AP reports that "The Bush administration says the low level of testing reflects the rareness of the disease."

The Bush administration should apply the same logic to the TSA.
Terrorists are extremely rare, so only 1% of passengers ought to be checked by airport security.

(In lieu of the 30% or more that are detained every day at airports around the country.)

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Okay, so we know the flaw here ... shrub administration - logic ... two mutually exclusive things trying to be conjoined.

It begs the question ...
Why in the hell not?
The beef exporter wants to test ALL of the beef it handles - at it's own expense, I might add - and the feds say no way to testing more than they require?!

Want to bet if they wanted to test less than the 1% required to be tested the feds would be singing a different tune?