The Galloping Beaver
Hmmmm....
I wonder what they were saying to companies that wanted to test their dogfood?
After all, poodles can be terra-ists too you know.
Especially, apparently, the French ones.
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This is especially annoying because the few (2?) cases of BSD that have been diagnosed have been tracked back to Canadian herds, which fact was of course given great sensationalized play in the U.S. Even then, though, some of us wondered whether American stats were as clean as they appeared to be simply because no one was doing the testing. You can never suspect these guys enough.
The American meat industry has long touted itself for its safety because nothing has come out in testing. Of course, if you don't test at all then it becomes much harder to have anything come out. I don't trust the American food industry and haven't for twenty years. The only time that I have had a serious food related illness was from a McD's in the States.
Another actually relevant news article not covered in the MSM.
Thanks, Dave, and the French poodle terra-ist is hilarious, Ross!
The worst part is...mad cow can have a 30 yr incubation period in humans and rears itself in a disease usually misdiagnosed as alzheimers. Chances are we already have a significant population suffering from mad cow and will certainly get much worse before it gets better. Boycott the industry!! The environment, cows, and your body will thank you!
If you ask people who are in the meat industry in the US, they all say they know there is BSE in US herds, and that the Canadian ban was just to shore up their own industry, not because there was any real concern about mad cow disease.
With all the cancer-, diabetes- and heart-disease-causing crap in meat anyway, not sure why anyone is still eating that filth. Not to mention that livestock is the number one source of greenhouse gases and a major source of all other kinds of pollution.
Eating meat is old-fashioned and just plain gross. Time to modernize, folks.
this is called "faith-based consumption"...
Almost all the countries in the world have had their (more or less important) mad cow disease epidemic, except the mighty US of A! How convenient!
The FDA and USDA stop advocating for the interests of the people a long, long time ago. They mere just industry whores.
One caution about generalizing the diagnoses of vCJD: I am no neuroscientist, but I believe that CJD runs its course relatively quickly, in not much more than a year on average. Alzheimer disease progresses much more slowly, over at least five or six years and perhaps much longer.
It is true, though, that we are not doing enough neuropathological autopsies to be sure of many of our doctors' guesses. I write as someone who had to fight to get such an autopsy and is glad she did.
This is par for the Bush course.Perhaps if the twins were to eat some tainted meat the policy might change.
I glad I`m vegetarian.Part of the reason people are so brain dead in this country is meat.
Maybe all those steak dinners from lobbyists are behind the memory problems being suffered by so many Bush Administration officials?
This news is *years* old. I stopped eating beef going on three years ago because of it.
Oh, how I miss it. There IS organic stuff available now that is marked as "vegetarian fed", "hormone free", and "raised without antibiotics". I even got a hunting license so I could put safely raised meat back into my diet (I haven't been as dilligent about pork and poultry).
My march '06 post on the topic
http://thaumaturgy.net/bb/archiv...archives/cat_2/
and references from '04:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
...ansas042304.cfm
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
...radict42404.cfm
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
...forbid51904.cfm
Here is something that's even more yummy: the Food and Drug Administration has approved spraying a cocktail of six live viruses onto pre-packaged meat as a food additive. Mmmm.
www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9863
Oh yes, You know it. its here.. I cant wait for creekstone farms to start testing...do you think they would actually tell us when they find the disease? Its going to be interesting now that the judge allowed testing at will. Lets see the results. In the meantime...I eat organic ital stock beef..and paying an arm and a leg for it. Did you all hear it may be a virus that causes mad cow? Cook it well!
Not sure if your serious, but Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow) is caused by a prion. The prion in question is a malformed surface protien that in its proper form, exists naturally on the surface of neurons in the brain of the animal. The prion manages to accumulate through self catalizing other protiens ( a bad one touches a good one, and converts it to a bad one) and forms protien crytals in the brain, destoying adjasent cells, and giving the brain a distinct spongelike appearance.
Now importantly - COOKING OR HEAT STERLIZATION DOES NOT DESTROY PRIONS. Extreme heat can be used, but that level will totally incinerate your meal, or melt the surgical insterments used. Fortunatly, the odds of contacting vCJD (human form of mad Cow - also called President Bush's disease 
from 1 meal of contaminated meat is less than 1:10 000, or 1:5000 if you eat the brain or spinal cord. Still vCJD is very very high on my list of horrible ways to die, and is entirely preventable. If the odds weren't this high, Britian would now be in the throws of a mass vCJD outbreak in the tens of thousands, instead of the 500-1000 cases they are dealing with now.
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