{"id":507,"date":"2004-01-07T23:03:37","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T03:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/01\/07\/tasty\/"},"modified":"2004-01-07T23:03:37","modified_gmt":"2004-01-08T03:03:37","slug":"tasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/01\/07\/tasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a936'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This just in from the Toronto Star: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1073517011421&amp;call_pageid=968332188774&amp;col=968350116467\">Feds rule out ban on abattoir waste in cattle feed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Federal officials have ruled out a ban on feeding slaughterhouse waste to cattle even though some government scientists say such a ban is the only way to be sure of stopping mad cow disease.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reasoning &#8212; once you read down to the end &#8212; isn&#8217;t that &#8220;the science&#8221; doesn&#8217;t support a ban (as the ever-weaselly chief veterinarian for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Brian Evans, claims), but that the bureaucrats don&#8217;t think they can enforce it.  In other words, Mr. Evans accepts as a given that the skunky crooked Canuck industrial farmer, as well (presumably) as the little guy, is going to skirt the law and feed cattle whatever is on hand.  <\/p>\n<p>Did you know that some farmers wean calves on blood?  <\/p>\n<p>What in heaven&#8217;s name are we doing here?  <\/p>\n<p>Let me get this straight: we have some really bad practices, and because the government says that it can&#8217;t regulate these practices, we&#8217;ll let them continue?   <\/p>\n<p>I have a headache.<\/p>\n<p>Probably BSE.<\/p>\n<p>And I think we need some new blood at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from the Toronto Star: Feds rule out ban on abattoir waste in cattle feed: Federal officials have ruled out a ban on feeding slaughterhouse waste to cattle even though some government scientists say such a ban is the only way to be sure of stopping mad cow disease. The reasoning &#8212; once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}