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- link470, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23ya man what the story didnt tell you is the cow ALSO had a laptop
- danielrh9, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20It definately has a Science angle. I see it as legit for Digg.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20hurry kill it!
"Third U.S. case caught before it entered the food supply"
-scarry stuff, who came up with the idea to feed dead meat to cows? - handle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15If this isn't controlled it has the potential to hit the US beef export industy very, very hard. Many european countries are only now accepting imports of UK beef after the early 90s mad cow outbreak.
- mrops, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15cool, I stick to halal (muslim) and kosher (jew) meat. One of the key guidelines for both halal and kosher meat is that the animal should not have eaten another animal or its remains. phew.
- yohojones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm from Central/Western Canada (Saskatchewan, North of Montana/ North Dakota.) When mad cow was found in Canada a few years ago and the U.S. shut the border to our meat A LOT of people in my area were affected.
The fact this this disease is popping up all over the globe even with all the trade restrictions leads me to believe that this is not a spreadable disease. You feed cows dead cows long enough and something happens. It's like feeding chickens chicken crap. Diminishing returns...
With the U.S. pushing N.A.F.T.A. and then not trading lumber or livestock with us, Canada has starting trading with China a lot more. Not good for the U.S. and not good for Canada I feel. - frem001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Good luck to farmers in the USA, the UK only recently had their export ban lifted
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Yes, by all means let's not base our food habits and consumption on science, let's use the fairy tale words of religious nutbags."
It may have a religious basis, but it has a very real benifit. Everyone knows that when an animal consumes itself, it suffers a great deal of problems in the long run. If I recall, this has been observed by real life human cannibal tribes, even.
By your "logic", being clean is stupid because of the phrase "cleanliness is next to godliness".
I'm the first to deride idiotic religious tripe, but just because if something is true, it's true regardless of whether or not religon promotes, condones, accepts or even refutes it. - snoble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8BSE is one of those cases where the politics has gotten way ahead of the science. The really unfortunate part is a big reason for this is because of scientists that allow for this. That is Prusiner has been so aggressive with pushing the idea that the prion is a disease vector that a lot of other questions have not been asked. For example, how often does BSE occur spontaneously? We can assume it has happened at least once since the disease formed somehow, but has every other case resulted from a transmission of a prion? We do seem to see that every country that starts seriously inspecting their cattle for BSE do eventually find a case.
There is no doubt that there was a serious outbreak in the UK a few years ago. But perhaps, epidemiologically, the system is stable for 1 or 2 infections that occur randomly. Certainly if the rate of infection were low enough this would be expected. But the problem is we just don't know. And we largely don't know due to reactionary governments and some members of the scientific community that behave like we understand the disease. - cameraman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Yeah, I found this out when a client called me today asking for photos of cows in Alabama (i live there).
- kungPow, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Like the U.S. civil war in 2004 he predicted?
- bchang, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11See now canada's going to ban beef imports from america see how you like it.
- lazyplayboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"1 mad cow can spread very quickly if not caught very soon" - BSE is not typically horizontally contagious and vertical transmission is complex (and of course traceable). The only major risk is the feeding of contaminated feedstuffs to cattle, which in the past was in the form of processed beef protein being fed to cattle. This is now banned. All with hindsight I know, but why anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond me!
- m.b., on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Time for Canada to close their border to US beef.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12and then Canadians are threatened into submission by ridiculous American foreign policy.
- geeky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I like cows, they're delicious!
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Why is PMS called PMS?
Because mad cow disease was taken. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Hopefully this will drive down beef prices a little. I'm off to go buy myself a nice porterhouse steak...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -47/+53KNOCK KNOCK!
Whos there?
Interupting Mad Cow!
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sorry... i couldnt resist... you can burry me now....
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http://www.findacritter.com - macrat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You might want to stop breathing too. There are a lot of toxins and radiation released from burning all that coal in the power plants.
- verucasalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ah, I see you are one of the excuse-makers. SO... if he was so concerned and pro-active to warn us about a nuclear event in 2015, why would he not even mention - not a hint - not a word - not an indirect passing comment - about 9/11/2001? I mean, it was just months away. Why would he totally ignore it? Makes NO sense. By heading off 9/11 he could have prevented this so-called police state, civil war, blah blah blah. But he didn't even HINT at it!! Surely he would have said SOMETHING about it!!
- CubeFarmDrone, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10You need to meet with a dictionary.
- zenscope, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Why, it's already there... http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/05/20/mad.cow.disease/index.html
- chrislouden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What a dumbass thing to say
"Which means the citizens of Alabama — and the nation — have no reason to believe their food supply from cattle is unsafe. It’s just as safe as it was yesterday," Alabama Health Officer Dr. Donald Williamson
umm.... yesterday there was a cow with mad cow disease that know one knew about..... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7WE arent zombies people! For the love of god and all that is holy, quit feedin us brains,
sincerely the cows. - lazyplayboy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+15"cool, I stick to halal (muslim) and kosher (jew) meat. One of the key guidelines for both halal and kosher meat is that the animal should not have eaten another animal or its remains. phew."
Of course halal and kosher does mean the unnecessarily inhumane slaughter of the livestock involved. Cutting the throat of an animal leaves 2 perfectly serviceable arteries supplying the brain, thus the animal only loses consciousness once the venous return to the heart has fallen sufficiently so that the arterial blood pressure in the vertebral arteries fails. This is far from immediate. Standard slaughter practices involve stunning animals before bleeding, so loss of consciousness is instant.
All slaughter practices are relatively inhumane, but the practices referenced above are unnecessarily so! - gODfall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Now let's see what this does to the American farmers... Maybe they will think twice before laughing at Canadians when we have problems insted of helping us..
- danielrh9, on 10/12/2007, -14/+18Please refrain from the southern stereotype jokes. I'm from Alabama myself and can say with certainty that all of the stereotypes are as old and stupid as many of the ideas they are based on.
- ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Sweet, more beef for me. Bring on the mad cow scare, price of T-Bones will plummet and I'll get the BBQ grill going.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Wow, is the American beef industry finally becoming honest? I think someone at the Agriculture department is going to have an unfortunate slaughter-house related accident.
- colebarnes, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12I think it's politically incorrect to call a cow "mad". Perhaps only mentally unstable for reasons that cannot be blamed on the cow. And, I'm pretty sure the government drove it mad...
- kungPow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+61 mad cow can spread very quickly if not caught very soon, and this one may have had the disease for years, who knows.
- agarc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm not a vegan/vegetarian hippie by any means, but I did recently give up red meat. It was difficult at first, but the cravings for steak and burgers will eventually go away. I respect the desires of others to eat meat, but more people should at least be aware of how corrupt the Beef industry is in the US. There is a lot of corruption. "Downer cows" are not a new concept. You don't have to be a PETA activist to do a little research on this industry and find yourself feeling disturbed and angry. Aside from poor conditions of many animals being raised for mass consumption, the industry itself is a strain on the environment.
So whether you care about animal abuse, the environment, or you're just afraid of getting mad cow disease, there are many reasons to just eat something else. I lift (weights), and you can definitely get your protein from better sources. - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Just because there is theoretically a ban on bone meal (ingestion of which is prety much the only way for a cow to get BSE), doesn't mean that cows aren't being fed it. People disobey regulations all the time when it comes to business.
Feeding herbivores mean (and their own meat, on top of that) was always a bad idea, as is the ubiquitous use of hormones, the long-term human effects of which aren't yet known. - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4People are not worried about what they are telling us about BCE in the food supply, they are worried about what they are not telling us.
- kungPow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6man, you seem pretty mad
- WarDave, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7MCDonalds doesnt use real meat so your good.
- ZevFan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do some research and you'll find that's far from conclusive. There IS indeed a brain disease that Americans are "dropping dead from" that looks almost exactly like MCD (many doctors believe it's the same thing)...but the powerful meat/dairy industry are making sure you stay in the dark about it. Do you really believe they care a hoot about you or if a few million people die? They've got millions to make and shareholders to keep happy! Don't think big corporations will screw you for money? Look at Enron...and they're just one of MANY. Open your eyes!
- stan205, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Notice how this was worded within the article, "The United States banned ground-up cattle remains from being added to cattle feed in 1997. Eating contaminated feed is the only way cattle are known to contract the disease." Last time I checked cows have calves and expel a placenta during calving. Other cows then eat that placenta (not sure why, seems kinda gross). But if a cow had BSE then calved and other cows enjoyed the "sweet labor" of this, would that be considered contaminated feed?
- spc2226, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Eat more fish! Oh wait, you need to watch your mercury intake. I'll take my chances.
- lazyplayboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Good comment. The UK had particular problems with initial ban on feeding meat and bone meal (MBM) to cattle. Only after it was made clear that 'We Really Do Mean It This Time!' was more effort made to eliminate contamination between the preparation of particular food batches.
- edwarwl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9I love how a delicious, perfectly seasoned, seared, and cooked steak can be reduced to "dripping wet bloody meat."
Quit eating your meat raw. Try cooking it until it stops mooing (medium well or well done). - dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6here is some good PETA propagandha for meat eaters to digest : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1435863169433675970&q=meet+your+meat
there is some truth to the video... mad cow is an invention of these kind of horrendous practices. its absolutely disgusting - TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7I wonder if this will affect Gateway PC prices?
Okay.. that was bad... couldn't resist. - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2dude. my grandmother's sister died of it. caberia hind. died at st john medical center in santa monica, ca. they think she got it europe since she used to visit there alot. my parents saw her die, it took her quick. they had to send her head to the CDC for confirmation, funny that it was never counted in the official numbers. Hmm. we still dont have an answer to this day why it wasnt.
- kjland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just some facts...
1. Total United Kingdom Human Population: 60,441,457
2. Total number of definite or probable vCJD cases in UK as of 03March2006: 160 (0.000265% of population affected)
3. Year of peak vCJD cases found in UK: 2000 (28)
4. Number of vCJD cases in UK in 2005: 5
source: http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/ - The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit at the University of Edinburgh in UK
(vCJD is the name for mad cow disease in humans - It is thought that a very small percentage of people who eat meat products infected with the BSE agent will get vCJD. Experiments done with cattle and other animals suggest that almost all of the infectivity is in tissue from the cattle’s brain, spinal cord, and intestine, and that muscle meat itself is not infectious. Milk products from cattle are also not associated with any risk of infection with BSE.) - terminalpariah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Obviously we smuggled the cow across the border and planted it!
Just like the conspiracy to cause the 2004 blackout, when we smuggled our power plants into your country. - ConfusedONE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There was a case in a Gunea tribe where a Prion disease arose called Kuru. The only people who got it were the women and children, who were given the scrappy parts of the people they ate, mainly the nervous tissue. Prions are mainly spread through nervous tissue as that is where all of the prions and amyloid plaques build up, leading to nice spongiform brains which are indicative of the disease.
Kuru, BSE, mad cow, Creutfeld-Jacob are all related. You do have to be susceptible to the prion altering some genes, but you first have to actually eat the stuff in high concentrations. Eating regular meat, shouldn't do much harm. Eating those tasty brains however will - kungPow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Anybody know where in Alabama the cow was?
- ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow kimos, i dont normally say this, but you are a raging idiot.
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