Letters to the Editor
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Oh, please. Spare us these useless 'Congressional hearings'..
The one statement Trent Lott made that I agree with, is how empty and ineffective hearings are. The same question over and over keeps asking "What lessons can be learned", proving Congress is exactly as big of a dead end as Obama says it is.
I have news for the Humane Society and Congress, this stuff happens everywhere, all the time.
A very close friend of mine, and some one I rode with on occasion is a trucker from El Centro California. We picked up the bloated cattle from the filthy jammed feed lots and delivered them to slaughter houses.
Many of the cattle died or went down in the packed trucks from the heat or illness and had to be dragged off the trucks by their necks or whichever part of the animals body was closest to the exit. They were all processed together.
The entire process is tainted, and dead and rotting cattle are used. And keep Congress out of it. It's bullsh** to suggest that the best answer is to just kill all the allowable bacteria by cooking into oblivion before you eat it.
I would suggest 24/7 cameras, just as the police use. For every politician at the table add one Humane Society Rep and one scientist with a mocroscope and a food tester.
There is only one standard that should be applied:
When you can eat a medium rare hamburger or a rare steak again and not get sick, you can sell your beef to the public.
And make the stockmen do the taste testing.