MAD COW: WHAT'S SAFE NOW?

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      Discusses whether it is safe for Americans to eat beef following the discovery of the first case of BSE in the United States. Details of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recall of potentially contaminated beef; Claim that the current system of food safety is ill-prepared to deal with threats like BSE; Account of how Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman reacted to the initial reports of mad cow disease; Observation that America's food-safety system is effective compared with other countries; Ongoing concerns about salmonella and E. coli, which pose more immediate risks than BSE; Observation that, in Britain, where hundreds of thousands of cows were diagnosed with BSE, there have been a handful of cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Report that relatively few Americans reacted to the news by refusing to eat beef; Concerns over so-called downer cattle, who are injured when slaughtered; Calls for the practice of feeding ground-up animal carcasses to cattle to be discontinued, and all cattle to be tested for BSE.