Despite Case, U.S. Could Claim Mad Cow-Free Status

[spinbaby]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite discovery of its first case of mad cow disease, the United States could still claim to be free of the ailment, experts say -- an approach that a consumer group says would be a mistake.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=6&u=/nm/20040103/ts_nm/madcow_dc_153

[Pale_Rider]

1. Start eating chicken ...

... lots of chicken.

[w4rma]

11. I've told my family and friends NOT to eat beef or products using beef.

The folks running the show are playing with words and semantics rather than re-regulating the beef industry or working to do *anything* to protect folks from mad cow, I suppose because they know that symptoms don't usually appear for decades and they'll be long gone, with their cash, by then.

[shanti]

12. chicken isn't off scot free

but it's better than the (beef) alternative.

[cthrumatrix]

2. fine....let the experts eat all the beef - for them and their families

[54anickel]

3. Blame Canada, blame Canada......

Standards set by the World Organization for Animal Health say a nation can be classified as provisionally free of mad cow when the disease is found in imported cattle and authorities are diligent in rooting it out and in maintaining safeguards.

Safeguards? You mean that little bit of monitor testing they do now where the results are know AFTER the beast has been ground up with a bunch of others and the meat is shipped and consumed and most likely consumed BEFORE the test results are known?

Ah, ya, right, thanks.

[MrBenchley]

4. Why not? Just look at the other claims...

this unelected drunk and his gang have made:

--the WTC air is safe to breathe
--there's an economic recovery
--most of the tax cut went to the bottom 40%
--Saddam has WMDs that pose an imminent danger
--9/11 happened without any warning

All turned out to be horseshit....

[Guaranteed]

5. That's why they call him *! nt

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. According to CNN, a third herd has been quarantined.

[Malva Zebrina]

7. people must be pretty confused

they hear about this mad cow, and most know , perhaps vaguely of the British struggle with it and are perhpas not quite sure of what it is exactly--who and where do they go to find out about it?

Their own government seems more concerned with saving the beef industry--the great, super beef industry, conglomerate, than it does about the health of it's own citizens. It is disgusting. It is every man for himself in this country. If you do not have access to a computer, you may not know what is going on with your own health. What else about our health is being sacrificed for the sake of the big money contributors to Bush's run for the presidency.

Where do people go to find out what to do about this? The government is NOT giving them any guidelines at all--instead, we do have, however, terra, terra terra lerts all color coded. :eyes::crazy:

[Guaranteed]

9. Yup yup yup nt

[shanti]

13. exactly marianne!

americans not connected to the net are at a distinct disavantage as far as news goes. they are probably the ones you are still seeing eating at mickey dee's.

[daleo]

8. USDA could be backing away from DNA test results

The results aren't in, but in today's Edmonton Journal (the newspaper nearest the herd that is being claimed as the cow's origin), we see the following:

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EDMONTON - A top American official suggested Friday that even if initial DNA tests disprove the Alberta link to the U.S. case of mad cow disease, it's possible the connection is still true. "It's just one piece of information, and there's always opportunity for error," Ron DeHaven, chief veterinarian for the U.S. department of agriculture, said at a press briefing in Washington, D.C.

snip

The Leduc-area farm used artificial insemination, he said. After two or three unsuccessful attempts at insemination, many dairy farms bring in live or "clean-up" bulls to attempt to impregnate a cow the natural way, he said. "We may have some conflicting results, DeHaven said. "I don't have any reason at this point to suggest that or think that."
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It's still early, but you wonder if these guys might be taking some lessons from the pentagon.

[are_we_united_yet]

10. Dear God is there no

limit to the f#cking lies these a * holes tell?

Oh I'm sorry. I guess a real patriot should say: Support our President! God Bless America. It's the f'in terorists you goddamned liberal.