What many people don't realize about mad cow disease is that thousands of cows in England had the disease over a 20 year period before they knew what the disease was and over 60 million people ate meat from infected cows for those 20 years and yet only 200 people got sick and about 60 died. Now one cow is infected and the whole country is goes crazy. Sure it is terrible when anyone dies, and vKJD (mad human disease) would be a terrible way to go, but really, don't we have more important things to worry about, like heart disease? I am sure thousands more people will die of other affects of eating too many McDonald's hamburgers and cheeseburgers than mad cow disease. Despite that I am sure I will be heading to McDonald's and ordering at least 4 or 5 for myself. Bada ba ba ba...I'm lovin' it.
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Actually you would have to be a strict vegan since the prions could easily get into the milk as cow blood is present in milk, and well, the prions get to cow brains through the blood from what they ingest...so even the vegetarians would be fscked =P
I noticed a sharp drop in milk prices here since the whole mad cow thing started...my guess is that there is a glut of supply vs demand because most of our beef(and thus dairy) products are now banned in foreign countries, and I guess the farmers just keep milking the cows because what else is there to do with cows? Plus I think if you stop milking them without having them give birth to new calves they lose the ability to produce milk, so they don't have much of a choice but to keep milking them.
So yep, only strict Vegans woudln't be fscked. I think we should just stop worrying and eat our freakin' beef. If we all end up convulsing to death as our brains fail on us, well that'll be the price to pay. But I'd rather have eaten my tasty burgers and steak and ice cream and milkshakes in the meantime, instead of getting mad cow after eating a bad slice of cheese on a veggieburger.
And as someone else pointed out, the actual chances of you getting mad cow are pretty slim. It would royally SUCK to be the person who got it, but in that case I'd just chalk it up to fate and having really shittacular luck. Keep in mind too that your body should optimally detect proteins that aren't what they should be(which is what prions, and thus what causes mad cow is, a whacked out protein particle that converts other protein particles into wacked out protein particles that then convert other protein particles, and so on until your brain goes berserk since it's not longer made of what it's supposed to be made of), and thus you're also less likely to get mad cow if you're healthy to begin with because hopefully your immune system would be able to crush these particles, and that failing, hopefully your blood/brain barrier would be good enough so that none of these prions manage to get through.
Of course, I suppose since you're horking down burgers at mickey dees you might not actually be all that healthy heh. But whatever, roll the dice baby!!!
And yeah I know I'm personally FAR more likely to die of a heart attack. Or the flu. Or a car accident(already been in one to boot), or Cancer, or being shot to death, or being stabbed to death, or suicide, etc. The only thing that makes Mad Cow frightening is what it stands for, a whole new variety of disease that we frankly don't possess the technology to cure at this point, other than just killing the infected animals, which isn't such a great cure for humans. Since they're not bacteria, you can't use antibiotics...and we're only able to stop some viruses by interrupting their complicated rna mechanisms and whatnot, but when it comes to Mad Cow and similar diseases, you have to be able to destroy the very protein particles themselves. The problem with this of course, is that you have to do this without destroying all the other protein particles too, which is really freakin' hard to do since pretty much any method we currently have of destroying proteins would result in more than just the bad proteins being destroyed.
Fingolfin269
Lifer
Eating McDonald's hamburgers is not eating like a lion.
Give me steaks. You can have your fast food. 😛
Fingolfin269
Lifer
Okay, that works too. 😛
Rawr!
Rawr!
wallsfd949
Golden Member
ReiAyanami
Diamond Member
you can't trust beef every since they've gone corporate.
if you've eaten any beef before 1996, you've eaten both cat and dog. they feed chickens, horses and pigs to cows. cows to cows. they used to buy dead cats and dogs that had been euthanized, grind them up and feed them to cows. until it was banned in 1996.
and of course cows to chickens and pigs, you can tell it goes in a cycle and how the problem multiplies...
reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. where hot dogs were actually made of rat meat.
he implied corporate irresponsibility and greed (make cows fatter faster by feeding them their own parents) would lead to the last stage of the communist cycle (revolution).
if 250 million of us had BSE, the first thing congress would do is pass laws to protect McDonalds and the beef industry from being sued. then citizens would riot. would suck to fall to communism over a McBurger
but they're so dam tasty
if you've eaten any beef before 1996, you've eaten both cat and dog. they feed chickens, horses and pigs to cows. cows to cows. they used to buy dead cats and dogs that had been euthanized, grind them up and feed them to cows. until it was banned in 1996.
and of course cows to chickens and pigs, you can tell it goes in a cycle and how the problem multiplies...
reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. where hot dogs were actually made of rat meat.
he implied corporate irresponsibility and greed (make cows fatter faster by feeding them their own parents) would lead to the last stage of the communist cycle (revolution).
if 250 million of us had BSE, the first thing congress would do is pass laws to protect McDonalds and the beef industry from being sued. then citizens would riot. would suck to fall to communism over a McBurger
but they're so dam tasty
Nightfall
Golden Member
A lot of people will wonder what Harveys is. I live in Michigan and travel up to the Sault Ste Marie area a couple times a year. While up there, I go across the border to ski in Canada. I usually stop at Harveys a couple times while I am up there and the food there is great. I wish they would come down to the US. 🙂
VirtualLarry
No Lifer
Wendys Jr. Bacon CHB 0wnz! 🙂
DrPizza
Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
IIRC the meat from "mad cows" isn't the problem - it's when you inject any part of the brain or spinal cord tissues. Unfortunately, mechanical separation to remove every last morsel of meat from a cow often results in spinal cord tissues getting nicked.
Johnbear007
Diamond Member
The only meat I eat is meat from Vegans.
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