MORE BAD BEEF

Remember that beef recall a few weeks ago? The largest one in U.S. history?

Well Congress is trying to find out which retailers sold the tainted beef. Seems like a pretty fair request. Not so fast.

Richard Raymond, the department's undersecretary for food safety, told a House panel that the information is proprietary and can't be disclosed. He said that 10,000 consignees -- from producers to retail establishments -- received the potentially tainted meat, but he couldn't reveal which ones.

Um...WHAT!? 10,000 different places sold the bad meat and we can't find out who it was!? We're talking tainted beef here, folks.

The Agriculture Department proposed a rule change two years ago that would allow disclosure of retailers that receive recalled beef, but the rule still hasn't been finalized. Democratic lawmakers contended that the rule was being delayed by the Bush administration.

Steroids in baseball - we'll leave no stone unturned. Tainted beef - eh, not so much.

COW - ABUNGA!

I was going to use this pic for the Holy Cow post but opted against it. After looking at it again, I decided it needed a post of its own.

She can recall my beef anytime.

HOLY COW!!

So here's the latest beef - The Westland/Hallmark Meat Company in Chino, CA, -

issued the largest beef recall in history, 143 million pounds, some of which was used in school lunch programs.

Here's the part I love -

Agriculture officials said there was little health risk from the recalled meat because the animals had already passed pre-slaughter inspection and much of the meat had already been eaten.

How do you recall meat that's already been eaten?

The recall follows an incredibly disturbing undercover video released by the Humane Society -

showing workers kicking cows, ramming them with forklift blades, applying electric shocks and even using waterboarding

Waterboarding!? Are they terrorist cows?

I hear the Bush administration also tapped their phone lines.