USDA: Symbolic badge of the Bush government

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is among federal agencies whose purpose is protecting business interests because it's a lapdog of President Bush.

I explained here 6/1/07 how USDA has refused to implement a Congress-passed mandatory country-of-origin labeling law, though consumers are being sold dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical, frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics, scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria, and mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.

Now, courtesy of your USDA, consumers are eating meat from sick cows that are likely to contain harmful bacteria and/or transmittable disease. Moreover, USDA refuses to pinpoint exactly where this meat was shipped. Consumers Union says USDA knows but it won't tell.

Profit for big business is the motive, and the Bush Administration - likely the most arrogant and defiant in the history of this nation - is the prime mover.

This is an outrage, but few are outraged because this is just one more failure of a government known throughout the world for its consistently insensitive failing of U.S. citizens.

Consumers Union is complaining to USDA and if you want to help, at least in the matter of sick and secret beef, you can get started at this web site.