Friday, April 15, 2005

US Officials Engaged in Mad Cow Coverup: Former Official

The claim by Lester Friedlander, a former USDA inspector fired in 1995, came as the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) aired video Wednesday of a cow stricken by the deadly illness that they say belonged to a US herd and was taken in 1997.
US officials have denied all the charges.

Three cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have been discovered in Canada since 2003, prompting the United States, Japan and a number of other nations to ban or restrict imports of Canadian beef products and cattle.

The scare cost Canadian beef farmers billions of dollars.

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