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...Setting the Record Straight ?Our report on mad-cow disease [Jan. 12] had a headline that read in part, "Big Beef was doing fine until disease felled a heifer ..." The animal that became ill was a six-year-old dairy cow-one that had already borne a calf and thus was not a heifer, a young female cow that has not yet had a calf...
...world. Instead, because of the political power of some business lobbies and constituencies, there is an infrastructure of protection and pork-barreling that, ultimately, hurts U.S. consumers. It's why Americans get ripped off on pharmaceuticals and why they pay a lot more than they need to for their beef, sugar or dairy products. And it's why Americans get such poor value for their tax dollars on health and welfare services. Reforming this mess, even if there is a genuine will to do so, is hard to achieve in the U.S. because politics is decentralized, and the lobbyists...
Game--it's what's for dinner. More and more two-legged carnivores who find themselves either bored with beef or concerned about healthy eating are turning to a herd of exotic meats. How about a medaillon of elk leg? Zebra steak? Or some rabbit saddles and quail satay...
...from chewing on strong and, well, gamy-tasting meat from tough old deer hunted for sport. But the increasing number of game farms over the past decade means that the deer, bison and caribou that make it to consumers' plates these days were probably raised on ranches. And, like beef cattle, they tend to be slaughtered after about two years, resulting in tenderer cuts with milder flavor than game found in the wild...
...Fast-food giants such as McDonald's procure beef from all over, but Yoshinoya imports almost 100% of its meat from cheap U.S. producers. When Japan banned imports of American beef in late December because of mad-cow disease, Yoshinoya chief executive Shuji Abe called it "the worst of worst-case scenarios" and then announced the unthinkable: Yoshinoya's 980 Japanese outlets would run out of beef by mid-February. Gyudon aficionados rushed the counters, and sales jumped 10% from the previous month. Now the company concedes it might buy domestic or Australian beef, even though its prices would rise...