{"id":1935,"date":"2004-04-16T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2004-04-16T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-17T00:12:00","slug":"meat-is-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/16\/20\/12\/meat-is-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat Is Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan every cow is tested for BSE before being chopped up for human consumption. Compare this to the US approach, where a cow probably has a greater chance of being struck by lightning than being tested.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A15855-2004Apr15.html?nav=most_emailed\">In order to satisfy its very important customers in Japan &#8230; Creekstone wants to test for mad cow disease every one of the cattle it slaughters &#8230; There is a big obstacle in the way of Creekstone&#8217;s mad cow initiative: The U.S. Department of Agriculture will not allow it &#8230; USDA officials say that they sympathize with Creekstone and similar operations hurt by the bans imposed by Japan and other nations, but that agreeing to the company&#8217;s request could imply there is a safety issue with American beef.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004_02_22_WeekArchive.php#'107792304060642826'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan every cow is tested for BSE before being chopped up for human consumption. Compare this to the US approach, where a cow probably has a greater chance of being struck by lightning&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}