The media seems "mum" on Mad Cow.......is it safe? gag order?

[cthrumatrix]

You would think that something that actually affects the health of americans, the press would inform people of the status and saftey of the beef industry and the burgers that most people consume.

Do they seem quiet to you? I wonder if it's on purpose so that they can keep the sheeple shoveling in meat... and it's health implications.

[zanana]

1. I think they're being very "mum"

The flu is getting much more coverage than Mad Cow Disease in this country. I'm sure there is a kind of "gag" order; maybe self-imposed by the American media. Maybe they're not being given information, either.

[bearfartinthewoods]

9. last night i heard that two herds have been quarantined and two head have

been killed for examination for the disease.

[harper]

2. Obvious propaganda

I've thought from the day the story broke that there has been next to no reporting being done on this important story. All we've been hearing is a public relations campaign from the beef industry. A new low for the profession of journalism (if that were possible).

[mhr]

3. Big Media Will Not Criticize Other Big Business, Pretty Obvious

eom

[cthrumatrix]

4. Not looking for criticizing....just want to know if it's safe? No truth

again.

People on this thread are always looking to show thier friends how the media is complicit...and how it could affect them.

[mhr]

6. When The Media Is Not "Fair And Balanced" By Definition It Is Complicit

eom

[leesa]

7. Everything I read points to being a much bigger problem than we know.

It goes far beyond beef because potential prion-containing animal products are used in all sorts of foods, gelatin is one that is in many foods. The blood supply of the country will also be effected because they are not certain the prions aren't transmitted through blood transfusions.
I guess it's taking awhile to spin the trail of accountability to Democrats.

[cthrumatrix]

8. I understand that eating "tainted meat" impact can be dormant for 10 yrs?

[bearfartinthewoods]

11. your odds of being killed in a car wreck on the way to the meat market

are a hundred thousand times greater than of dying from mad cow. that said, there are other problems with beef. after working in a slaughter house/meat cutting plant, she bear and i quit eating meat.. even now, 25 years later we will never eat fast food burgers. about ten years ago, we found a source who we felt was more responsible in his management/treatment. what meat we eat, we buy there. for general safety reasons, not tied to mad cow, if i needed burger, i buy the hunk of meat and asked that it be ground for me, preferably early in the day.

you really don't want to know what goes into mass produced burger.

[w4rma]

12. Maybe. Maybe not. One major problem is that they aren't releasing enough

information to back up your statement (or counter it), bearfarinthewoods.

[JM]

5. Three words

Nobody Dead Yet

JM

[leftofthedial]

10. yet again, the truth reflects badly on Bushit and its owners, er donors

so it's off limits.