The Case of the Missing Goose Intestines
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Grab the goose intestines and go!
The United States Department of Agriculture is finding new meaning in the term wild goose chase. The USDA is investigating the disappearance of 100 pounds of smuggled goose intestines from a Michigan warehouse. Smuggled in from China, the goose guts were marked for destruction by USDA inspectors, as part of their crackdown on the
warehouse, where 2,000 pounds of illegal frozen poultry from China were also found. However, when the inspectors returned to destroy the goose guts, they were gone.
Why the fuss? In the U.S., it is illegal to import uncooked poultry from China, because bird flu has been found in the country. People can get bird flu from live birds or from infected poultry that was not cooked properly. The USDA, hoping to quell the controversy over the disappeared goose intestines, says ``We have no reason to believe this was infected by avian influenza, and we have no reason to think this is on the average American's dinner plate.” (What about the less than average American? Are they eating it?) While technically true, the Agriculture Department did not even bother to test the frozen poultry that they did seize and destroy from the warehouse. So yes, if you never test for something, then you won't know whether or not it's there.
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