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Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California Dairy Cow, USDA Says

Unfortunately, ignorance and fear usually win out, at least for a time when things like this come up. S. Korea is halting sales of US beef because of this one mad cow. If more countries follow suit, it could have a damaging impact upon the economy. Sad thing is, this was a milk cow, which would not enter the human food chain anyway, at least not as beef, her milk maybe but not her meat. The types of cow used for meat and dairy are different breeds. Milk breeds do not usually end up as food and pretty much never from actually beef processing plants. Typical milk breeds are poor quality beef same as typical beef cows are usually low producers of milk. One milk cow in the Granola state has very little chance to ever actually affecting beef cows in other beef states.

And who can blame the cow for being mad, if I was forced live amongst all the fruit, flakes, nuts and tree huggers in Cali, I would go mad also. I am not worried about this, for one thing, I don't buy products from Cali if other products are available and it is something I need, not want.
 
PeteEU said:
You mean every officially discovered and reported human infection. Most doctors would not know BSE if it kicked them in the nuts and spit in their face.. just saying.
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Good. I'd rather that most doctors focus on diseases that are actual problems.

And you are certainly not going to gets states to admit that their cattle is a problem,
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The news will come out whether the states want to admit to it or not, as this case proves.

nor get private hospitals to admit they have a case .. after the beef industry is big money when it comes to donations.
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Huh? I'm not sure how you think a private hospital in America works, but the beef industry doesn't just give them a bunch of money and then tell them what to diagnose.

Screening for BSE in the US has been far from up to the standard of what they do in Europe and else where and it has been so for decades.. because of pressures from the beef industry on regulators.. tainted beef would cause serious economic problems.. which is why the discovery of one cow in California.. out of a large herd is.. odd...
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The screenings for mad cow disease in most of Europe border on mass hysteria. I mean, what's the point of wasting so much money on something that poses no threat whatsoever to the general public? You are literally MILLIONS of times more likely to die from heart disease or cancer as a result of eating beef, than from mad cow disease.
 
I'm so glad I don't eat red meat any more. :shock:
 
With that said, mad cow disease just highlights how disgusting factory farm practices really are:

Wikipedia said:
A British inquiry into BSE concluded that the epizootic was caused by cattle, who are normally herbivores, being fed the remains of other cattle in the form of meat and bone meal (MBM), which caused the infectious agent to spread.[SUP][7][/SUP][SUP][8][/SUP] The cause of BSE may be from the contamination of MBM from sheep with scrapie that were processed in the same slaughterhouse. The epidemic was probably accelerated by the recycling of infected bovine tissues prior to the recognition of BSE.
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*vomit*
 
Kandahar said:
With that said, mad cow disease just highlights how disgusting factory farm practices really are:



*vomit*
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Good for you, be a Vegan if you wish, just don't try to force me to be one. Personally, I am having a couple of Salami sandwiches for lunch and might go out for a nice steak for diner.
 
DVSentinel said:
Good for you, be a Vegan if you wish, just don't try to force me to be one. Personally, I am having a couple of Salami sandwiches for lunch and might go out for a nice steak for diner.
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It never ceases to amaze me how defensive some people get whenever it is mentioned how unhealthy and/or disgusting factory farms are. Is your statement above supposed to offend me or horrify me or something? I don't give a crap what you eat, it's your health.
 
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PeteEU said:
wow there must be a big epidemic going on since they actually found one in the very limited supposedly random checks they do...
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You wish. Four cases in nearly a decade do not a "big epidemic" make.
 
Anyway there are more cows than humans in U.S. So just cull all the cows in Cali and start fresh.
 
RDS said:
Anyway there are more cows than humans in U.S. So just cull all the cows in Cali and start fresh.
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How about we leave the cows and cull the "mad humans" instead. No need to cull all cows in Cali, it's a fairly big state and even if the desease were infections, it wouldn't pass very far. How about we just test the cows and cull the ones that are sick? Not that I am against destroying more of Cali's economy, but man, that would be cruel to the cows, it is bad enough they have to live in Cali.
 
RDS said:
Anyway there are more cows than humans in U.S. So just cull all the cows in Cali and start fresh.
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More cows then humans? What USA do you live in? Clearly not this one. A quick google search would do you some good on that.
 
PeteEU said:
Yea ignore the facts as usual Rev.. stick your head in the ground.... keep trolling.
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No fair. You just posted "Dunno the date, but since the Daily Mail is "fact" for the right...," so don't point your troll-finger at others.
 
PeteEU said:
wow there must be a big epidemic going on since they actually found one in the very limited supposedly random checks they do...
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The disease could be spontaneously generated, so that one of the proteins mutated and caused it, so there may not be others like that right now. On the other hand, we don't know if there are other spontaneous cases that could have occurred over the years because we don't test every cow.

Creutzfeldt
There is spontaneous CJD in humans at about a rate of 1 per 1 million. I'm not sure, but I suspect some of those spontaneous CJD might have been new variant CJD.
 
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