When Mad cow was first discovered, WHY...

[Deja Q]

did the corporations still insist on feeding bits of cows to other cows, which is what caused Mad Cow in the first place!???! :eyes:

Also, does it matter where the cow came from?

Canada?

TWO YEARS AGO?

Did this cow hide its symptoms for 2 years?

Could the cow spread the disease to other cows?

And do they feed bits of chickens TO chickens? Ditto for turkey?

It's insane, how dim people can be. It's like having sex without a condom, knowing what could very well happen as a result!!!

[DCDemo]

1. I read earlier that it might have been infected in the US

To "jump start" dairy calves, they supposedly give them dried cow's blood as some food element.


This could have passed the disease to the calf...and slowly taken hold.

The scary thing is, if this is done normally for all dairy cows in the US, I bet there are 10's of thousands of CJD people walking around right now, and that in 5-10 years, it will become an epidemic.

Let's hope it's not that bad, but the numbers of cattle in this country, and the amount of beef we all eat, is scary.

[proud patriot]

2. Cows are herbivores

Why would anyone think to give them anything else ?

[DCDemo]

3. The don't eat corn either...it kills them

But in the US, we shove it down their throats.then pump them full of anti-biotics so they don't keel over from the corn.

Grassfed beef baby...organic, tasty, 1/2 the fat, and not likely to have Mad Cow

[soothsayer]

7. my GF's cows break into her garden all the time and eat her corn

it's hard to keep them away!

on edit: little boy blue, come blow your horn, the sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn

i think 'corn fed' is what the cows LIKE, it's not an injustice visited upon them

Now cowtipping I don't believe in....

[Don_G]

4. BSE Is Not A Virus

It's more like a matter of weird protiens changing and mutating in your bloodstream to adapt themselves to the host.

That the fact it's ignored dosen't surprise me at all: look at all the attention the Regan Administration gave HIV patients and the mentally ill that continues through the Junior administration to this day....

The fact that's it's just come out dosen't surprise me at all: you can only hide the facts for 3 or 4 years or so unless you can enact a "Patriot Act" and divert a few Trillion to your "fiends" before you enact a permanent barrier between the "People" and the "Leaders."

Hard questions are going to be asked later and I'm not sure the Dems can answer all of them with Dimbo's ties with the CIA and the PNAC.

[baldguy]

5. You have to ask?

Look no further than the Almighty Dollar. The meat producers save alot of money when they don't have to buy feed for the animals. They just grind the dead cows into the mix for the others to eat.

[arcane1]

6. it's all about the money

don't worry, after all of this crisis, perhaps the feds will give a giant tax subsidy to Monsanto, to provide GM feed to the cattle industry...

can't wait to see what new syndromes and diseases they'll come up with then!!