Good thing that HSUS threw the first grenade.  That congressman from TX and the USDA were fixin' to round up a posse to sic on them if they had the chance.  They were going to end up like Oprah. 

Don't you get your beef from a local producer?...oh, I think I see what you are saying.  You just find the trade agreements 'interesting'.  I think they may drive our BSE policy.

That link looks like a biological warfare gameplan.    Here's mine...gimmeee yours now. 

I found a full text article on the lawsuit.
http://www.pe.com/reports/2008/cattle/stories/PE_News_Local_D_lawsuit28.3b9f980.htmlT

They have the whole lawsuit.
http://www.pe.com/multimedia/pdf/2008/20080227_shafer.pdf

Horrible outline of the cow abuse in there.  It is sickening.  I never did watch the whole video. 

It is funny...I had not eaten ground beef at all since the 2003 case of BSE here.  And just in the past few weeks, I had a pound of organic ground beef and I have a pound of grass fed beef in the freezer from the local butcher.  I'm going to eat it, anyway.  We had some of the giant bag of Shitake  s-h-i-take (got filtered!) mushrooms we got from China via Costco the other night.  We got that right before the pet food recall.  We promptly gave half the bag to my husband's boss, but still have more left.  I soak and wash them like crazy.

What a crazy world.

1340
Attackers hurled dead horses and other animals by catapult at the castle of Thun L'Eveque in Hainault, in what is now northern France. The defenders reported that "the stink and the air were so abominable...they could not long endure" and negotiated a truce.

1346
As Tartars launched a siege of Caffa, a port on the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea, they suffered an outbreak of plague. Before abandoning their attack, they sent the infected bodies of their comrades over the walls of the city. Fleeing residents carried the disease to Italy, furthering the second major epidemic of "Black Death" in Europe.

Today
Free Trade

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/hist_nf.html