New Case of Mad Cow Disease Threatens U.S.

[IGBT]

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The issue many critics have with the Agriculture Department is that it allows cattle feed to contain blood meal, poultry feces and plate waste from restaurants where contamination can more easily take place.

 

[sixone]

Let's wait until the testing is finished before we get our panties in a wad - k?

 

[TWills]

OMGWTFBBQ!!!

 

[IGBT]

..I thought they stopped feeding them blood meal?? ..and poultry poop is ok??

 

[BlackAdam]

That news website seems REAL reputable... give me CNN/MSNBC and then I'll stop eating 'teh cowz'.

But for now, I'm gonna go enjoy a nice, big, plump, juicy, red, bloody steak!

 

[Miramonti]

I think there's plenty of mad cow going on in our beef, but the testing is so sparce so that noone finds out about it and our beef industry doesn't get ruined.

 

[d3n]

Too bad this wont at least get me cheaper sirloins or strip steals.

 

[dug777]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Toastedlightly]

just cook yer damn meat.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

How the hell did I end up in P&N?

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
just cook yer damn meat.

you do know that the temperature required to destroy the protein responsible would result in a hamburger the size and consistency of a charcoal briquet, right?

 

[dsfunk]

I thought cows ate grass

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: myusername

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
just cook yer damn meat.

you do know that the temperature required to destroy the protein responsible would result in a hamburger the size and consistency of a charcoal briquet, right?

:thumbsup:

 

[episodic]

WTF is up with hamburger prices even? 2.00 a pound.

Crap what happenened to 99c a pound?

O well pork and chicken are still cheap - *burp*

 

[2cpuminimum]

blood meal is a high quality feed better used for pigs than bovines. Cows you can virtually give urine as a nitrogen source, since the bacteria in the rumen turn low quality protein into mid-quality protein (and also high quality protein into mid-quality protein, which is why feeding them blood meal is a waste of a resource.)
That said, there really hasn't been any funding for investigation of alternative causes of mad cow disease. The timing of breakouts coincided with a number of things, including excessive widespread organophosphate pesticide application to cows in order to control botfly. I'm not saying that's the cause, just that there is circumstantial evidence for it and no one has bothered to investigate. Yes I've read the studies by Pruisner, and no he hasn't *proven* that it is caused by a protein, he's just established a strong body of evidence supporting that assertion. One which has yet to be challenged by alternative hypothesis, as is normally done with good science.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: BlackAdam
That news website seems REAL reputable... give me CNN/MSNBC and then I'll stop eating 'teh cowz'.

But for now, I'm gonna go enjoy a nice, big, plump, juicy, red, bloody steak!

It's been on CNN all morning (Headline news). It's being sent to the UK for more testing.

It's cost billions of dollars in lost beef exports from 2003. Money our trade deficit ridden economy can ill afford to give away....*sigh*

 

[virtueixi]

Well if you were a cow, wouldn't you be mad?

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: d3n
Too bad this wont at least get me cheaper sirloins or strip steaks.

fixed,lol