Mad Cow's Disease... am i missing something?

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Only one cow in Canada has been found to be infected... and this is cause for a crisis? We don't feed our cattle animal by-products, so i doubt this is prevalent. England i can understand... 160,000 cattles were infected... but even then, with all those infected, only 10 people developed the human form of Mad Cow's Disease and died from it? 10 people!

Anyways, i hope the US boycotts the meat... i feel bad for the ranchers, but hopefully beef will drop in price and i can stock up on some good cow for some good grilling this summer.
 
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Originally posted by: fatbaby
well its better safe than sorry.
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To the point of banning all cattle from Canada into the US? Mad Cow Disease isn't contagious. It's rare as hell. And even if you do eat it, you have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting BSE.
 
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Originally posted by: her209
Do you want to be one of the unlucky ones?
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i have probably a 1000x better chance of getting killed in a car accident, but i still go out.
 
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IIRC it can incubate for years, that would make it a bitch to control.

Better paranoid & safe than sorry.

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um, it's 1 cow. England had 160,000 infected cows, and only 10 people developed the human form of mad cow disease.
 
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i bet it was planted there by president bush. dont agree with us will you! we'll show you!!

bleh its hardcore paranoia just like sars. :|
 
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Not only is it only 1 cow, but it was 1 cow that wasn't even in the food chain. Canada has better food standards than the US (remember jack in the box?), so I don't know what the problem is.
 
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Two cows are standing in a barn.

First cow says, "I'm a bit concerned about this mad cow
disease that's going around."

Second cow replies, "I'm not worried, it doesn't affect
penguins."
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:D:beer:
 
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Originally posted by: TheEvil1
its called chance. Sh!t happens. live with it
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So??? There's chance in everything. You have a MUCH better chance of getting salmonella from fish than getting mad cow's disease... EVEN if you lived and ate beef in England. Should the US ban all fish products?
 
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Basically, you can't tell if a cow has mad cow disease without examining the brain... I read somewhere that France tests more cows in a week than the US does in a year. So, I'm not surprised we haven't found any here.... we're not looking!
 
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I'd rather the US do something to control it's spread than not do anything at all. If they later find there are other modes of transmission, by then it maybe too late.

 
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Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Only one cow in Canada has been found to be infected... and this is cause for a crisis? We don't feed our cattle animal by-products, so i doubt this is prevalent. England i can understand... 160,000 cattles were infected... but even then, with all those infected, only 10 people developed the human form of Mad Cow's Disease and died from it? 10 people!

Anyways, i hope the US boycotts the meat... i feel bad for the ranchers, but hopefully beef will drop in price and i can stock up on some good cow for some good grilling this summer.
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a friend of mine lived in the uk during the mad cow crisis and he said that everyone stocked up on beef then because it was so cheap and they'd been eating it for 20 years already.
 
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takes something like 20 years of incubation or something. i didn't know cows lived that long. maybe thats in people. or milk cows? anyway, 1 might be the first of 1000s
 
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First off this cow was a breeding cow. Canada has a system it started 2 years ago of micro chiping all their cows. Were able to track all of the new cows etc... This cow had 8 calfs and there in the process of searching them out.

I work as a butcher and am quite educated I believe with mad cow. Canada has some of the tightest controls on its beef as especially in Alberta they pride themselves on their BEEF, honestly theres nothing better then it. THe individuals whom got mad cow typically consumed the "crap" left overs of the cows that were put into hamburgers etc...

Here Canada's beef passes tough standards and most stores only use AA and AAA grades of beef. Mad cow can be seen physically thats why this cow was tested it looked sick. THe early stages however cannot be seen. There's tons of myths on whether or not cooking it enough etc will get rid of it. THe verdict is still out on this.

As for people waiting to see cheap beef prices, dont expect it anytime soon. First off the packing places have slowed production, the cattle ranchers just wont kill the cows, and thirdly from the farms to your stores it takes months... First the cow is killed then its hung up then its cut into sections then packed then could stay at the warehouse or stores for 2-4 weeks since its an air tight seal... Dont expect cheap prices for 2 months...
 
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Originally posted by: OS
I'd rather the US do something to control it's spread than not do anything at all. If they later find there are other modes of transmission, by then it maybe too late.
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160,000 cows in the UK were infected... 10 people developed the human version of Mad Cow's Disease.

You guys don't see how absurd it is to be so worried about it?

I'm not saying the US shouldn't take action... but to ban ALL imports from Canada from a SINGLE cow? And yes, there's been decades of research on BSE, and they know it's not contagious.
 
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Originally posted by: eakers
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Only one cow in Canada has been found to be infected... and this is cause for a crisis? We don't feed our cattle animal by-products, so i doubt this is prevalent. England i can understand... 160,000 cattles were infected... but even then, with all those infected, only 10 people developed the human form of Mad Cow's Disease and died from it? 10 people!

Anyways, i hope the US boycotts the meat... i feel bad for the ranchers, but hopefully beef will drop in price and i can stock up on some good cow for some good grilling this summer.
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a friend of mine lived in the uk during the mad cow crisis and he said that everyone stocked up on beef then because it was so cheap and they'd been eating it for 20 years already.
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That's eactly what i'm going to do! I'm certainly not going to stock 20 years worth, but with over 10 freezers here, i can store quite a bit, and plan to.
 
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it only spreads fast if we ffed other animals to our cows.

The ban on Canadian BEEF cannot and willnot last long as prices we soon spike a great deal within the states as the exports of our beef to America is almost a billion dollar industry...

70% of our beef goes to America.
 
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Looney

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Not only beef will skyrocket, but so will every other meat. If people aren't eating beef, they're eating chicken and pork... that's going to up the demand on those. Like i said, i feel bad for the farmers here in Canada, but i'm going to stock up if that happens. mmmm t-bone steaks
 
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