Re: mad cows and sane marxists

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis: I agree completely with Gary's observations below. There is no
such thing as pure "nature". Homo sapiens has interacted with the natural
environment as long as it has been on the planet and we can not go back
to some garden of eden that never existed. The more basic problem with
beef as a commodity is that the capitalist system's need for profit is
antithetical to any conceivable production of "healthy" beef.


On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, g.maclennan wrote:

>
> I think from  my reading that the crucial crime was the relaxing of the
> regulations on the production of protein from the infected sheep.
> Specifically the Thatcher government permitted the use of lower
> temperatures. Protein is simply protein.  Its origins do not matter. If my
> sources are correct the economic rationalist Thatcher  Governement was
> successful in defining state *regulations* as state *red tape* and so
> infected protein was produced.
>
> So what we have here is an instance not of the violation of the natural
> order by science but of bad science.  As a consequence our line of attack on
> this question should be that profits were put before people, not that
> natural laws were broken.
>


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