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I still can't get over the false positive. I mean, seatbelts make you think you're safer and drive less safely, which causes more accidents (lower fatalities). Bicycle helmets will also make the user more reckless, and make motorists think that the cyclist knows what he's doing and take unnecessary risk, putting the user at greater danger.
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You don't seriously think like this do you? Taking safety precautions makes people more dangerous? The analogy is a joke when applied in this context as there's aren't many otehr ways you can prepare beef. Would a less safe way be serving it raw? Will everyone stop defrosting their frozen meats if they had the comfort of knowing they weren't going to die from it? Get real Brady.
I think it's tragic that it took five posts until How Unfortunate clarified for you what false positive means.
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Anyway, I saw in the newspaper that beef has risen in price by about 75% over the last 5 years per pound. Meat I used to buy for $3/lbs. just a couple years ago is now more than $5/lbs. in the same supermarkets. Widespread testing will just raise the cost even higher: $8/lbs. for beef? $12/lbs. for steak? No thanks, and I think many others would turn away when this "testing" (and has it been scientifically proven to make our meat safer, because at the moment it just seems like marketing BS) drives the cost up. May as well just
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What? Did you just teleport in here after getting a briefing ffrom your boss at the larger meat companies? Testing for disease is not going to raise your meat by 60% overnight or whatever absurd figure you suggested.
The fact of the matter here is one small producer wants to test all their meat for mad cow, maybe they intend to use it for marketing or maybe they care about the livilhood of their consumers and don't want a lawsuit on their hands. Then the bigger companies, afraid of anyone getting a competitive edge, cry foul and make up some lame reason like false positives ruining the industry. The fact is if a cow tests positive, you simply remove it from the herd, big deal. It'll be 1/1000, if that. And it's not like a news crew will be there within seconds "AMERICANS GUNNA DIE FARMER MACDONALD SHOOTS CRAZY COW" to destroy the industry.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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