| Lobbying groups often try to disguise a
financial self-interest by clumsily dressing up their arguments in the guise of
concern for the public. You see this tendency in the pharmaceutical
industry{{U}} (21) {{/U}}in energy and lumber companies who like to tout
their{{U}} (22) {{/U}}of the environment. But{{U}} (23) {{/U}},
two new books argue, are these tactics more{{U}} (24) {{/U}}a cause for
concern than in agribusiness. Marion Nestle's "Food Safety: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bio-terrorism' looks at the way the American meat and biotechnology industries have{{U}} (25) {{/U}}successfully on Capitol Hill{{U}} (26) {{/U}}stricter federal regulation, which the author argues has undermined the safety of the food supply. (27) , Maxime Schwartz's "How the Cows Turned Mad"{{U}} (28) {{/U}}the origins of mad-cow disease over more than two centuries, and reveals the fallout from the British government's blind{{U}} (29) {{/U}}that the disease could not be{{U}} (30) {{/U}}to humans. In 1999, Ms Nestle writes in her earlier book, Rosemary Mueklow, the executive director of the National Meat Association, lobbied against President Clinton's{{U}} (31) {{/U}}to establish a more thorough testing regime for E. coli 0157: H7, a potentially{{U}} (32) {{/U}}pathogen. Ms Muck low’s organization—which represents meatpackers and processors who{{U}} (33) {{/U}}to discard or reprocess meat found to be infected under the new testing regime—argued on Capitol Hill that{{U}} (34) {{/U}}microbial testing in meat could actually lead to a greater public health risk{{U}} (35) {{/U}}confident consumers might relax their own safe-handling procedures at home. |