Jim Hightower has an outrageous item (scroll to the last item) about government attempts to block a Kansas beef producer from testing all of its cattle for mad cow disease. The government claims that it doesn't allow private testing, even by certified labs. The real reason? Hightower guesses (and he's probably right) that the big processors don't want to test all of their animals, and they don't want to have to compete against anybody who does.