Mad Cow Disease. ..Are you a walking time bomb?

[Postman]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

Brain degeneration at the Dept. of Agriculture


It's so reassuring to know there are oversight agencies in the gov't keeping us safe...(sarcasm off)

With the corporations keeping tabs on consumer safety, who needs oversight agencies?

[Malva Zebrina]

1. Oh probably

but since it takes twenty years to manifest itself, I could care less--I might be dead, I am almost certain I would be dead by that time. LOL

I love grilled strip steak, pot roast and gravy in the winter, stew, hamburgers and roast beef, pepper steak and all things that are beef hearty, comforting and sustaining.

[Shoeempress]

2. Why I will only eat grain fed beef from farmers I know.

And bad news, it can manifest a lot faster than 20 years, like 18 months.

[Malva Zebrina]

4. got a link?

just curious

I have lived through a lot of hysterical announcements over what you eat can kill you at an age earlier than you would expect. Never happened. For instance, at one time, it was said that black pepper is not good for you, or mustard is not good for you. Causes cancer.

People live to old age, ignoring all of that. My father in law, a born and bred Black Forest German, ate sausage all of his life, liverwurst and other fatty "wursts" and all sorts of other unhealthy foods according to today's standards--and died at the age of ninety five , most probably, I would suspect, a natural death due to ageing and not to what he ate.

Wait a while--as you get older you will be able to remember and compute all of those warnings you have been subjected to all of your life from various sources and may take the epicurian mode when it comes to what you eat.

[skooooo]

3. MOOO!

[cynatnite]

5. The Red Cross says I could be

I used to be a regular blood donor until all the hoopla about this. Because I had lived overseas within a certain period of time I now am not allowed to donate blood at all.

It pisses me off because last I heard there wasn't anything concrete that said it could be passed in this way.

[jedr]

6. They eat a lot of beef in Texas, don't they?

[samplegirl]

7. Rich people

dont eat the same meat we are. Trust me!!!!

[amazona]

8. doubtful

There is some genetic susceptibility or most of Britain would be uninhabited by this time of century. You have to be one of the very rare unlucky ones and you have to get a bad cow.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[Postman]

9. Let's pretend for a moment...

If we all lived in the same small town and we got all our beef from the local cattle rancher, then it would behoove the local cattle rancher to make sure the beef supply is safe. Maybe strict oversight wouldn't be needed in THAT circumstance because of the repercussions the local beef supplier would suffer from the local consumers if there were a Mad Cow outbreak.

However, we live in a large country with many cattle ranchers supplying beef to the public. Oversight is needed to protect the public at large against unscrupulous beef suppliers looking to make the most money and who may not have the publics health in mind.

It's the greed that is going to kill people.

Is there a link between alzheimers and mad cow disease?

[silverlib]

11. Creutzfeldt Jakob disease

This disease resembles Alzheimer's. I had read a while back that it is thought that Alzheimer diagnoses are given mistakenly for Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. See my post below. Google has several sites to hit.

[silverlib]

10. I googled....brain biopsy for diagnosis NOT recommended

I can't believe they are discouraging brain biopsies to verify this disease. How on earth can we know how many people have it versus other similar diseases?

Here's a link where it is stated that biopsies are not recommended. This link doesn't have anything about this disease coming from Mad Cow, but other links I hit did make the correlation.

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cjd/cjd.htm

[pretzel4gore]

12. where were the xians?

alot of the weird stuff going on with the beef herd can be traced to feeding cattle feed made of...cattle! that cows were vegetarians didn't slow down the grasping pigs who thought 'why waste all that gore?' when with chemicals and so on it could be made into something that then could 'beef up' the food the poor doomed creatures were given already, and thus padding the lard on the pigfat's arses! These dirty bastards act like they're professionals with their 10 thousand dollar boots and earthy manners (i's just an ole country fella at heart!)...they go to church on sunday smelling like george bush's anus and they pray like they really really care, but then they feed their animals the last generation of cannibal cows who already, thank you, fattened their piggish bank accounts a wee bit! Jesus Christ!
i hope there's a hell so they can burn init....

[Jade Fox]

13. Why I don't eat beef anymore.....

unless its organically grown, or fed, or whatever you call it. I don't eat the
beef they sell in restaurants or regular grocery stores. Only what they
sell at the local natural food stores.