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Will The U.S. make the right moves to protect the consumer?

With the discovery of a cow infected with Mad Cow Disease on 12-23-2003, a political probe is sure to begin. Most troubling is the power that the National Cattleman's Beef Association wields in Washington DC. According to the Wall Street Journal, the livestock industry donated $4.7 millon to federal candidates in the year 2000, with 79% of that going to Republican candidates. George Bush was the single largest recipient of any candidate that year, receiving about $225,550 in donations. The industry spent $1.5 million in lobbying in 2000 according to a report complied by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog research organization. The National Cattleman's Beef Association has scored at least two big political victories in recent years, and I will let you decide who the winners and losers are. The first of its successes was the fending off of attemps by the soybean industry to get vegetarian soy products included in offically recommended U.S. school lunch menus. (You decide, who won and who lost in this decision) The second success, acheived only a few months ago, was the defeat of a Senate-passed provision that would have banned all non-ambulatory "downer" cows--such as the cow that tested positive for Mad Cow Disease on December 23, 2003-- from entering the U.S. food supply. (Who do you think are the winners and losers in this "acheivement")

1. What is Mad Cow Disease? :

a fatal cow disease that kills humans
a fatal cow disease that transmits an illness that then can kill humans
a disease spread to people by a cow virus
a result of poor slaughtering sanitation controls

2. People can get Mad Cow Disease?:

Yes
No
Possibly

3. As of December 1, 2003, how many people, world wide, have gotten "Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease"?:

about 1200
less than 100
about 155
more than 500

4. Is BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or Mad Cow Disease) considered a Foodborne Hazard? :

Yes
No
Possibly

5. Mad Cow Disease is currently thought to be caused by:

poor sanitary conditons where the cattle are raised prion proteins the food and feed that the cattle eat a combination of 1 and 3 the type and strain of the cattle the combination of 1, 3 and 5 none of the above

6. Mad Cow Disease is is not the same as "chronic wasting disease", which causes a contagious neurological disease affecting deer and elk..

7. The parts of infected cattle that are the riskiest to eat are the...:

brain and spinal cord
the milk
the hooves
cheeks, neck and ears

8. The best way to test if your Purveyor is selling you beef infected with Mad Cow Disease is to...:

look at it under an infra red light and it will glow with a blue color
look at it under an ultra violet light and it will glow with a green color
Send a sample piece of meat to the FDA or CDC for analysis
examine the brain tissue of the all the cows that provided the meat the purveyor is selling you
none of the above

9. Cooking meat until well done is an effective way to kill the agent that causes Mad Cow Disease...:

True
False
Possibly

10. Free range "grass fed" and organic cattle yield safer beef than commerically raised cattle do?:

True
False
Possibly