Safety Last!

Here are Two Crazy Facts for the day:

Crazy Fact 1:

Out of 35 Million cattle slaughtered in 2003, the USDA only tested 20,000 for mad cow disease (japan tests all of their cattle killed for human consumption) Let us hope that number has changed in the past few years!

Of course it wouldn't be in a ranchers best interest to test all of his cattle. If they were inflicted with mad cow disease, he couldn't sell their meat, and he'd lose money. Heaven forbid the USDA risk a rancher's profits!

Crazy Fact 2:

The EPA Makes me SICK! Clearly, nothing is sacred to the group that allows rocket fuel in our milk supply. Yeah, you heard right. Rocket fuel. In milk. Thanks to the Pentagon, ammonium perchlorate, the main explosive component in rocket fuel, has been lurking around our environment for decades. It finds it's way into water use for growing feed crops to cattle. Cows eat these contaminated crops, with the result being contaminated milk. Whether you are drinking milk or eating dairy products made with the milk, you are ingesting perchlorate. And the EPA actually makes allowances for a "provisional daily safe dose." I'm sorry, but where I am from -Earth- there is no acceptable amount to ingest where explosive components are concerned!

Think about it :)

Blessings,

Sarah Holsapple