Balance of Food

The Japanese media is reporting that Japan will resume imports of U.S. beef next week. Japan's Agriculture Ministry had announced that a U.S. decision to cut back its mad cow disease testing program will not impact Japan's resumption of beef imports from the United States. It is "mad" that we are still fine-tuning this policy worldwide, and I'm not just picking on the U.S. for this. There is NO reason for anybody at anytime for any reason to feed cattle any part of cattle. Cattle are herbivores. The U.S. Agriculture Department announced last week it will reduce its mad cow surveillance program by 90 percent. Yet that did not affect Tokyo's decision to resume beef imports. Wow! I realize there may be some cattle still out there who were eating cattle parts. But I don't have the sense from reading the mainstream media reports that the world understands the significance of keeping cattle as herbivores. I'm still not crazy about how much corn these cattle are eating in the U.S. because we are eating too much corn that's not directly corn. If I were the meat czar, all cattle would be hormone-free and grass-fed.