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Meat puppets.


Kansas Kansas, state, United States
Kansas (kăn`zəs), midwestern state occupying the center of the coterminous United States. It is bordered by Missouri (E), Oklahoma (S), Colorado (W), and Nebraska (N).
 beef producer Creekstone Farms can't test all its cattle for mad cow disease mad cow disease: see prion.
mad cow disease
 or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g.
, because the U.S. Department of Agriculture won't let it. Allowing Creekstone to do its own testing would imply that other meat is unsafe, USDA USDA,
n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture.
 says.
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Title Annotation:U.S. Department of Agriculture on cattle testing
Author:Taylor, Jeff A.
Publication:Reason
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 1, 2006
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