11 Feb 2004
Mad Cow Forces Beef Industry to Change Course
This little (3 pages!) bit from the NYT details the creeping greed that brought on the current crisis.

Even though I'm technically a part of the "beef industry", I have a real hard time feeling sorry for the huge feedlots and corporate "farmers" that dominate in this sector: they're done this to themselves, and those of us who, for years in many cases, were ignored or chastised as "doomsayers" and "radical kooks" can take small solace in the upheaval that's already happening.

The discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S. is forcing the beef industry to accept regulation it has long fought.

(link ) [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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