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Originally Posted by acjama
The farmers and producers are not nuclear physicists and couldn't possibly evaluate the danger (or it's lack of). They were after the money, period, no matter what the cost to anybody else. With this level of ethics, how are they going to act any differently when the problem is BSE or dioxin, or whatever?
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The think is, it
wasn't the farmers and producers. In the case of the meat, they didn't know there was contamination to begin with. The cows the contaminated meat came from were not environmentally contaminated - they were contaminated because of a specific feed producer selling contaminated feed to the farms. There was no reason to even suspect the meat was contaminated as, from what I recall, the meat found to be contaminated wasn't from anywhere even close to the actual direct contamination. They tracked it to the feed.
Refusing to buy meat is basically closing your wallet to the wrong place, and hurting honest producers. The feed wholesaler was the one in the wrong, and now that this has happened, there is a lot of attention being given to where feed for the cows comes from.