Cattlemen, Beef Industry, USDA;"Cant Beat Our Meat"

Mad Cow a "Non-Issue" Says Beef Industry in 2004

This is all really a nonissue," insists Dan Murphy, a spokesman for the American Meat Institute, the meatpacking industry's trade group, which has also been busy downplaying public fears. "There is no threat to public health. Beef is safe. The flames have been fanned by misguided media coverage, and by activists with agendas - the kind of people who want to turn us all into vegetarians or denounce corporate globalization and the WTO or whatever."

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