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three-quarters of all American cattle: Cited in Michael Satchell and Stephen J. Hedges, “The Next Bad Beef Scandal? Cattle Feed Now Contains Things Like Chicken Manure and Dead Cats,” U.S. News & World Report, September 1, 1997.
273 “totally unsupported by any scientific evidence”: Quoted in “Rendering Industry Supports Voluntary Guidelines for Cattle with Suspected CNS Disease,” Food Chemical News, July 29, 1996.
“unfeasible, impractical, and unenforceable”: Quoted in ibid.
brains, spinal cords, eyeballs: See “NCBA Urges Scientific BSE Prevention,” Press Release, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, February 18, 1997.
fats, blood, blood products: See “Industry, Public Interest Groups Differ on FDA’s Proposed Ruminant Ban,” Food Chemical News, March 10, 1997.
allowing cattle to continue eating dead pigs: See the statement of Dr. Beth Lautner, vice president of science and technology at the National Pork Producers Council, Transcript of “Food and Drug Administration, Public Forum on the Proposed Rule 21 CFR 589: Substances Prohibited from Use in Animal Food or Feed, St. Louis, Missouri, February 4, 1997,” p. 101.
“all mammal remains to all food animals”: Quoted in “Controlling ‘Mad Cow Disease’: We call for stronger FDA action,” Consumer Reports, May 1997.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised: See “CDC Rejects Any Weakening of FDA’s Ruminant Feed Ban Proposal,” Food Chemical News, March 31, 1997.
“The United States has no BSE”: Quoted in “Substances Prohibited from Use in Animal Food or Feed; Animal Proteins Prohibited in Ruminant Feed; Final Rule,” Part II, Federal Register, June 5, 1997, p. 30939.
“mammalian-to-ruminant, with exceptions”: Quoted in ibid., p. 30968.
274 these industry groups rightly worried: See “FDA Public Forum,” pp. 36–9.
a remarkable example of cooperation’: Quoted in Chuck Cannon, “Renderers Appear To Be Bearing Up Well to FDA’s Ban on Ruminant Protein in feed,” Meat Marketing & Technology, March 1998.
“protected the beef industry”: Quoted in ibid.
“verbatim”: Quoted in ibid.
“the number of BSE cases there soon doubled”: Cited in “Developments in Mad-Cow History,” Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2001.
the number of BSE cases increased fivefold: Cited in Geoff Winestock, “Tracking Spread of ‘Mad Cow’ in Europe Remains Random,” Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2001.
that supplied ground beef to McDonald’s restaurants: See Melanie Goodfellow, “Italy’s First BSE Case Found in Cow Destined for McDonald’s,” The Independent, January 16, 2001, and “Final Tests Confirm BSE in Cow in Italian Slaughterhouse That Supplies McDonald’s,” AP Worldstream, January 16, 2001.
plummet by as much as 50 percent: Cited in Geoff Winestock, “‘Mad-Cow’ Disease Cases Jump Despite EU Increased Testing,” Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2001.
275 one-quarter of the firms handling “prohibited” feed: Cited in “Food Safety: Controls Can Be Strengthened to Reduce the Risk of Disease Linked to Unsafe Animal Feed,” GAO/RCD-00–255, United States General Accounting Office, September 2000, p. 12.
one-fifth of the firms handling both: Cited in ibid., p. 12.
one out of every ten rendering firms: Cited in ibid., p. 12.
In Colorado, more than one-quarter: Cited in Michael Booth, “Mad Cow Rules Violated,” Denver Post, May 13, 2001.
sales in Europe had already fallen by 10 percent: Cited in “McDonald’s Not Out of Mad Cows Woods Yet — CFO,” Reuters, February 28, 2001.
“If McDonald’s is requiring something”: Quoted in Philip Brasher, “McDonald’s Forcing Beef Industry to Comply with Mad Cow Rules,” Associated Press, March 13, 2001.
“Because we have the world’s biggest shopping cart”: Quoted in ibid.
276 “McGarbage”: Douglas Kern, “McGarbage”, National Review Online Weekend, January 27–8, 2001.
“hodgepodge of impressions”: Cynthia Crossen, “A Culinary Wasteland,” Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2001.
“anecdotal”: The AMI spokeswoman was Janet Riley, quoted in Regina Schrambling, “Catching America with