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Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to look for the disease in every animal it processes.

The Agriculture Department has said no.

Creekstone says it intends to sue the department.

"Our customers, particularly our Asian customers, have requested it over and over ...

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She revealed to Vogue magazine: "I've often wondered if I wasn't on that show if [anorexia] may not have happened.

"I didn't really know at that point what it was like to be a celebrity, and the only people I knew at the time who had a similar experience were these women whom I worked with.

They became my role models." The 33-year-old says she's discussed her problem with DeGeneres - who's been a pillar of strength.

She said: "We've talked a lot about this.

I'm not proud of the struggle.

"When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear.

And now I would like to reappear." Fellow cast member Calista Flockhart - who is dating 'Star Wars' star Harrison Ford - was herself dogged by rumors of an ba href=/eating disorder/a/b throughout the show's five year run.

She's always denied the claims, saying: "I eat normally.

I eat whatever I want, whenever I want.

I don't have a messed up relationship with food.

"Am I anorexic?

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- - Advanced Search • Archives Meatpacker sparks industry fight over testing for mad cow By LIBBY QUAIDAssociated Press WASHINGTON - A Kansas meatpacker has sparked an industry fight by proposing testing all the company's cattle for mad cow disease.Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to look for the disease in every animal it processes.

The Agriculture Department has said no.

Creekstone says it intends to sue the department."Our customers, particularly our Asian customers, have requested it over and over again," chief executive John Stewart said in an interview Wednesday.

"We feel strongly that if customers are asking for tested beef, we should be allowed to provide that."Creekstone planned a news conference Thursday in Washington to discuss the lawsuit.

The department and larger meat companies oppose comprehensive testing, saying it cannot assure food safety.

Testing rarely detects the disease in younger animals, the source of most meat."There isn't any nation in the world that requires 100 percent testing," department spokesman Ed Loyd said Wednesday.Larger companies worry that Japanese buyers would insist on costly testing and that a suspect result might scare consumers away from eating beef.Japan was the most lucrative foreign market for A...