Veneman Unaware of Banned Beef Shipments, USDA Says

[UpInArms]

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ahoaqFdruMEc&refer=us

May 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman was not aware of a department decision allowing some beef products to be imported from Canada in violation of government bans imposed because of mad cow disease, her chief spokeswoman said.

``Secretary Veneman was not aware of additional processed product coming into the U.S.'' from Canada, Agriculture Department spokeswoman Alisa Harrison told reporters during a telephone press conference from Washington.

A total of 7.3 million pounds of processed beef products from Canada that should not have been allowed into the U.S. were shipped across the border since September, said Elsa Murano, undersecretary for food safety.

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The White House rejected Conrad's demand. ``She's handled the BSE matter very deftly, taking quick action to protect the American food supply,'' said White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan. ``The president thinks Veneman's been doing an outstanding job.''

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Yeah! Another government employee charged with a duty and function fails to "know" what is going on! Hurray! What a fine job!

Let's see, how many does that make now?

Mueller
Tenent
Rice
Rumsfeld
Bush
Powell
Cheney

This is just more incompetency and cover-up. Lies and Liars, all of them.

[JM]

1. And in other news

Veneman denies knowledge of purchase of YellowBeef from Niger
Veneman denies knowledge of cattle torture
Veneman denies secretly meeting with cattle during National Agriculture Policy meetings

Perhaps Veneman has Mad Cow?

JM

[nosmokes]

2. on a related note

check out http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=16972">grist magazine - friend or faux

[TrogL]

3. How could she not know?

It was all over Canadian news quite awhile ago. There were all sorts of meetings with US officials. It's not in violation of anything.