Mad Cow U.S.A.

by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber

From Will St. John, Detroit Free Press, 11/23/97

Rampton and Stauber concentrate on the mire of government response to an uncertain threat. In its own way that is just as terrifying as the disease itself. ... The book manages to avoid becoming mere polemic. Their scorn for various halfway measures and public-relations choices is prominent, but they have been reasonably fair in giving voice to the concerns that went into those choices. ... Could the nightmare happen here? Yes, the authors say. ... Perhaps most distressing, one could easily imagine the same set of responses to other potentially deadly but so far uncertain dangers, from global warming to meteor impact. This is indeed a cautionary tale.

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