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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20031230
Author:Editorials

Ever since Upton Sinclair presented the Chicago Stockyards in all their stomach-churning glory in his 1906 novel, The Jungle, Americans have been periodically revolted with the process that delivers all those luscious red steaks and chops and cutlets to their dinner tables.

The discovery that a single cow with bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- mad cow disease -- had been slaughtered and distributed to several states brings the latest, double shock. First, the realization that the disease, which has so decimated European beef markets, not to mention killed more than 100 Britons, is now on ...

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