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Old 02-17-2009, 02:19 AM   #1338
Perry Winkle
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
What's the testing rate? How many cows go into the food supply for each cow that is tested?
40,000? That's the number I saw, which was current as of 2004.

That's many times more than the average number of people a drug must be tested on before being approved by the FDA.

In 2001, the world population was estimated at 6.1 billion and the number of cows was estimated at 1.5 billion.
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