It's now our turn: First U.S. mad cow case confirmed

[FrustratedPoet]

And that, of course, doesn't take into account the effect that the BSE outbreak had (and is having) on the farming industry in this country. Burning millions of cows really ****s up the pastoral farming sector.

[Gatekeeper]

This is a Christmas "gift" I'm sure cattlemen and women could do well without. Ah, well, it was only a matter of time ...

Gatekeeper

[Az]

oh no, this is.... oh wait, it doesn't affect me at all.

[Mr. President]

Is it just me or has there been a whole bunch of disease-related news recently?

We're stumbling from SARS to mad cow in Canada to the early flu season in America to H5N1 in Korea to mad cow in America?

[VetLegion]

This is going to further intensify the trade wars, no?

[CerberusIV]

Blame the Atkins diet

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Beef was already expensive enough here (Korea) as it is...

Ha Ha, now it is going to get cheaper in the USA, where it had recently doubled in price, due to restricted import from contaminated countires and the Adkins diet fad. Good for USA consumers; the cattle industry loes some of its recent boom.

[Drake Tungsten]

Who put that Korea reference in my quote? I'll kill the man who implied that I live in Korea!

[Thorn]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Maybe we should smuggle some infected cow meat in and feed it to Japanese cows.

We wait for a test to turn up an infected animal and they'll have to drop their ban...

Actually Japan already has had some cases of its own... damn hypocrites...

[Jack_www]

I think this is an overreaction. First off you can only get Mad Cow from eating the brain tissue or neverous teasue of an infected animal. Here in the United States, they no longer feed cows the organs of other cows in their feed in response to the Mad Cow in Britain.

I heard that this cow's organs were being used in dog food though. So if you have a dog I would be a little worried. BUt I know that the beef I eat is safe and wont stop eating it.

I heard on the news that only 130 people in Britain got Mad Cow dease. I think given those numbers and howwide spread in Britain Mad Cow was, I think we are all safe as long as we dont eat cow brains or give it to tother cows. The only way you can get it from eating meat of a cow if it is the neverous teasue infects the meat.

[Shogun Gunner]

There are actual concerns in all beef producing areas about mad cow. It really comes down to how the meat is harvested (is that the right word?) from the carcass. These rendering plants hang the cow up side down and they use specialized tools which seperate the meat from the bone. The problem is the scrape and cut to get every piece of meat. Some of this meet is near the spinal column or brain. That's a potential point of contamination.

Sure, the nice cuts of beef have less probability of getting brain tissue, but the scraps that go into bologna or dog food are at higher risk.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Who put that Korea reference in my quote? I'll kill the man who implied that I live in Korea!

He, he, he, yeah I saw your Nippon flag.

[Sava]

MAYBE WE SHOULDN"T FEED FARM ANIMALS THEIR OWN ****!?!?!?!?!?!?!

DUH

stupid ass farmers...

[Az]

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[Whoha]

Sava, there has been a ban in place on that since 1997. There isn't a whole lot we know about the disease. Some guys in GB think that it might have been the pesticide used to get rid of the warble flys.