MCDONALD'S: MAD COW 'FIREWALL' NOT THERE

Here's something you don't see every day: America's biggest and most entrenched meat-based restaurant chain admitting - nay, complaining - that the government is screwing us over on beef safety. "Researchers and McDonald's Corp. (MCD) say the government isn't fully protecting animals or people from bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as BSE, or mad-cow disease. Stronger steps are needed to keep infection from entering the food chain for cattle, the critics wrote in comments to the Food and Drug Administration.