Democrats Say Slow Recall of Meat Threatened Consumers

The New York Times ^ | 7/27/02 | Greg Winter

[j271]

Is this the DNC backup plan in case the corporate accounting/Harken stuff doesn't work out?

Just for fun, try making your own DNC talking points to help manufacture the next so-called scandal. Here's one: the Bush administration is too close to Big Meat.

[Skwidd]

Wow. Any port in a storm, I guess.

[facedown]

The dispute coincides with an admission by prison officials in Colorado, the center of the outbreak, that a warden at the Buena Vista prison deliberately served recalled beef as meatloaf to hundreds of inmates on Saturday, confident that high cooking temperatures would eradicate bacteria.

And he would be exactly right.

[gov_bean_ counter]

"Unless you have the proof, you don't want to falsely accuse anyone," a spokesman for the department, Steven Cohen, said.

Unless you are the Tyson Company and you want to run your primary competitor out of business. Then the rules change, especially if your footstool is the president.

[kitkat]

"The dispute coincides with an admission by prison officials in Colorado, the
center of the outbreak..."

These people are getting worse and worse about how they phrase things to slant them against the Republicans. The above sentence gives the impression that the prison (instead of Colorado) was the center of the outbreak, even though no one in the prison got sick.

[Restorer]

And he would be exactly right.

Hey! Keep your scientific accuracy out of our polemics!

[kitkat]

They're STILL on the Harkin thing. Today on radio I heard a speaker say that Bush wants to pass a law against the very thing he did himself. He didn't bother to mention that Bush has been cleared 5 times by the SEC. They neglect to say that what Bush did in honesty could also be done dishonestly and so Bush wants a law to make sure they can't cheat. Actually Bush is a shining example of what's right, but they twist that around, too.

[kitkat]

Didn't I read on FR the other day that Clinton allowed the meat processors to "investigate" themselves?

[aomagrat]

Democrats Say Slow Recall of Meat Threatened Consumers

Not if you cook it before you eat it.

[88keys]

I think Free Republic response threads should be required reading for everyone!! Have you all ever considered starting a print newspaper?! "America Today" sounds good... ;-)

[facedown]

These people are getting worse and worse about how they phrase things to slant them against the Republicans.

I agree with you in general but in this particular case I think it's probably just sloppy writing.

[facedown]

Hey! Keep your scientific accuracy out of our polemics!

It can be an annoying trait. 8^)

[Restorer]

Couldn't the author have at least pointed out that the cook's belief was accurate and that the only problem with "contaminated" meat is that sometimes meat isn't cooked as thoroughly as it should be?

[facedown]

Nah, it doesn't advance the agenda.

[templar]

100 days elapsed from when ConAgra Beef began producing the questionable beef and last week, when the department announced the second-largest meat recall,...

100 day old fresh meat in the stores? I think I'll become vegetarian again.

Upton Sinclair, where are you when we need you?

[Blue Screen of Death]

Just for fun, try making your own DNC talking points to help manufacture the next so-called scandal. Here's one: the Bush administration is too close to Big Meat.

Naw, Clinton grabbed the Big Meat headlines, so to speak.

[Restorer]

Clinton grabbed the Big Meat headlines

I thought it was Monica who grabbed the Little Meat??

[clintonh8r]

RATs are experts on tainted meat...

[petuniasevan]

The Agriculture Department called the criticism unfair, pointing out that the largest meat recall, of 25 million pounds of beef, took even longer to initiate in President Bill Clinton's second term. Science, not politics, dictates the speed at which smidgens of contaminated meat can be traced from their origins, department officials said, and a recall could not have been justified until investigators knew for certain that ConAgra was at fault.

"Unless you have the proof, you don't want to falsely accuse anyone," a spokesman for the department, Steven Cohen, said.

What do logic and fair play have to do with it? Nothing according to liberals. Not a peep from them on X42's watch, notice? I just hope the public will see through this smoke screen (though I don't hold out hope).

Thorough cooking kills bacteria (duh).

If I had just one wish, and couldn't use it for personal gain, this is what I would choose: