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- inactive, on 09/13/2008, -1/+58I freaked out when I read the title as "Is Beer safe?"
All is right with the world..... - inactive, on 09/12/2008, -1/+30It is too difficult and complicated, but the cows should be present on digg.com too
- TunaFishGangsta, on 09/13/2008, -1/+29Ren: What kind of sandwich would you like, Kowalski?
Kowalski: MEAT!!
Ren: And what kind of bread would you like, Kowalski?
Kowalski: MEAT!!
Ren: [makes sandwich] Here ya go. Your meat-on-meat sandwich.
Kowalski: [chewing] AAAAAAAGH!!!
Ren: What's wrong, Kowalski?
Kowalski: TOAST MEAT!!
Ren: [toasts meat in toaster]
Ren: What's wrong NOW, Kowalski?
Kowalski: THIRSTY! WAN GRINK!
Ren: And what kind of "grink" would you like, Kowalski?
Kowalski: MEAT!!!
Ren: Get him a glass of meat, Stimpy! - thesio, on 09/13/2008, -3/+29My Grandmother died from Crutzfeldt-Jacobs disease (the human form of mad cow). The medical devices used to perform her autopsy were destroyed after use instead of sterilization because of the nature of the disease. I am prohibited from donating blood because I "may have a genetic disposition to contracting the disease." ...it turns your brain into a sponge...my Grandmother never left the US in her 53 yrs...
- sustainablogger, on 09/13/2008, -0/+25You mean you're not aware of "Mad hop disease...?"
- inactive, on 09/13/2008, -1/+25Prions are the weirdest damn things in the universe... they aren't alive and they aren't like a virus, but they'll take over your brain and make you go crazy. Serve me up another hamburger.
- awarnick, on 09/13/2008, -3/+23Give me all the mad cow beef you can.
- DigSomeMore, on 09/13/2008, -8/+23I wish could stop eating beef...i'm fat
- forcedfx, on 09/13/2008, -2/+17Yeah, me. Mind yo business!
- icksturminator, on 09/13/2008, -1/+15Denny Crane.
- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -0/+13They'd probably address the issue with blank stares that indicate nothing useful about their "true" thoughts.
- rhabd0mancer, on 09/13/2008, -4/+17Is somebody forcing it down your throat?
- sfrench, on 09/13/2008, -1/+14This article was just a blogspam with an anti-meat spin put on it. The article they link to http://www.physorg.com/news140411184.html
has the following quote:
"Genetic BSE we can combat," Richt said. "We have submitted a patent for a test system that can assess all bulls and cows before they're bred to see whether they have this mutation."
Seems like a complete non-issue to me. - AmyVernon, on 09/13/2008, -0/+12I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I totally read it as 'beer,' too and grew increasingly concerned as I read the comments and did not see anyone else admitting that.
- lucy22, on 09/13/2008, -16/+27Well I am glad I do not eat beef, then.
- stonebear, on 09/13/2008, -2/+12I don't know why people sweat this comparatively rare disease, when they are virtually assured of eventually developing Alzheimer's anyway; the same thing, but with a slower death. I'll take the beef induced heart attack in my sleep before I get that far, thank you.
- RyomaNagare, on 09/13/2008, -4/+14Where is that other study that made the digg front-page the other day.
If you are less than 30 you are 3 times as likely to die from a violent accident, than from a heart attack, less likely of cancer, and infinitesimally less likely of mad cow's decease...
please stop with another FUD story. - logload, on 09/13/2008, -0/+10Mmmm... luckily I don't even like beef that much.
it's all about chicken! and bacon! - Dromeciomimus, on 09/13/2008, -1/+10Just a little pet peeve of mine.
A study can't ever "show" or "prove" anything. In the best case scenario, they can only infer it to a high degree.
Don't be a sucker for headlines. :) - lohphat, on 09/13/2008, -0/+9The head of the USDA is a former cattle industry player.
I predict all our beef will be found safe. - inactive, on 09/13/2008, -0/+9Perfect poker players.
- dondara, on 09/13/2008, -0/+8Dude, don't even joke about something like that.
- AFelsinger, on 09/13/2008, -0/+7Yeah, if they even agree to allow testing. One cattle rancher wanted to test all of his cows for BSE before slaughter (instead of the small percentage most do), and the gov wouldn't let him.
- AFelsinger, on 09/13/2008, -1/+8hahaha!
- inactive, on 09/13/2008, -2/+9Wuss
- PhantomRogue, on 09/13/2008, -0/+6I really can't believe how offended you are that some Americans are fat. I bet you save all your scraps and send them to somalia, dafur and the other impoverished countries too.
- Gullop, on 09/13/2008, -0/+6So am I, more for me.
- applessauce, on 09/13/2008, -1/+7This study doesn't make beef riskier. Even with these genetically predisposed cows in our food supply, and there have been very few cases of cow to human transmission of Mad Cow/Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Instead, it means that we can make our beef even safer in the future, if we test our cows for this genetic variation and don't breed the ones that have it. - ATLien74, on 09/13/2008, -0/+6I did the same thing, and immediately scrolled down to make sure I wasn't the only one. lol
Cheers to Beer still being safe. - CYcolone, on 09/13/2008, -1/+7A Ren and Stimpy reference is always an automatic digg.
Fast-forward to 5:50...
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/ren-and-stimpy-f ... - chopsky, on 09/13/2008, -1/+6Mad Cow Disease...when is this ***** going to disappear?
The chances of you eating a piece of meat and dying from Mad Cow are slim to NONE.
Get on with your lives and stop worrying about crap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blRCh-EDuDs - notadiggtard, on 09/13/2008, -0/+5Bacon rules!
- pinkcherry, on 09/13/2008, -1/+5It would need to be turned into black carbon soot before the prions would be destroyed.. and even then a few might still make it
- th3heretic, on 09/13/2008, -4/+8[condescending] I'm sooo glad I don't eat meat [/condescending] This just in, nobody cares if you don't eat meat
- pintomp3, on 09/13/2008, -0/+4hopping mad..
- ace429k, on 09/13/2008, -0/+4i get my beef from a local grass fed farm. I read The Omnivores Dilemma its a fantastic book that focuses on where our meat comes from and what we should do about it. Very informative in a not so 'ram it down your throat and like it way.'
- Wargasmic, on 09/13/2008, -0/+4Wrapped around anything.
- mattwalton56, on 09/13/2008, -0/+4I < 3 Bacon
- deskimo, on 09/13/2008, -0/+4CJD in human beings is probably one of the worst ways to go, period. It will make someone depressed, paralyzed, insane, and demented, making death a welcome respite.
This is not to say that food-borne CJD is going to come to the US, or that any one of us will get it, just to say that if any of us do we will be far from 'glad' by the time it is over.
I myself have had an encephalopathy of a much less severe variety and I would describe it as torture. Thankfully it was very treatable and I have been able to recover. - BOFH2, on 09/13/2008, -1/+5I will gladly die eating beef. If that is how I am supposed to go then so be it.
- Rivetgeek, on 09/13/2008, -4/+8Crutzfeldt-Jacobs != Variant Crutzfeldt-Jacobs
VCJ is mad cow disease. Crutzfeldt-Jacobs is not - Acglaphotis, on 09/13/2008, -0/+4Made of bacon. No, really -> www.seriouseats.com/2007/06/burger-made-of-ground-bacon.html
- AmICoolNow, on 09/13/2008, -1/+5For six years I haven't been eating beef...the past couple years I've been having the occasional In-N-Out burger, though. But I think that's justified considering how delicious it is.
- inactive, on 09/13/2008, -0/+4Here here.
- HughesAP, on 09/13/2008, -0/+4oh Peta, I'm going to eat meat tonight just to spite you.
- blarch, on 09/13/2008, -2/+5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36NgK-vJc1M
- Jacare, on 09/13/2008, -1/+4just another reason not to eat beef (especially American beef)
-the problems with the antibiotic's/hormones they inject in the beef to make them bigger and more resistant which get passed onto the consumer with negative health effects
-the high fat/saturated fat content (America's #1 demonstrated killer is heart disease and currently has an obesity epidemic)
-there is a proven link between beef consumption and colon cancer
-the use of Posilac in the American dairy industry(makes the cows produce more milk) (causes infections in the utter of some cows and is directly responsible for the pus in your milk) its use is banned In Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the European Union. its also horrible for the cows, studies showed substantially increased health problems with cows, including foot problems, mastitis(infected utter) and injection site reactions. it also impinged on the welfare of the animals and caused reproductive disorders.
- US beef is banned in the UK because of lax US regulations(in the early 1990's a man in the UK developed mad cow disease and it was drectly linked to consumption of US beef)
-some people have problems with they way the cows are treated
- and now we learn 1 in 2,000 cattle is genetically predisposed to develop BSE. There are 95,848,000 cattle in us(2005 estimate) that means 47,924 cattle will develop BSE each with the potential to pass on the disease to the cattle around it. i really hope they use this discovery to better understand and prevent cattle from developing BSE for human safety. of this 95 million cattle they use to only test around 40,000. they now test aprox. 500,000 cattle(as of 2004) still a small amount but its an improvement but the problem with testing is that the farmers need to bring their cattle to a government certified testing facility(hundreds of miles away) and they have to pay for it. Bureaucracy at its finest.
any positive nutrients that are found in beef are also found in lots of other animals(oily fish for example) so there is no reason to eat beef unless theres no other choice. - inactive, on 09/13/2008, -3/+6I just found one reason to digg you down sucka!
- notadiggtard, on 09/13/2008, -1/+4RELAX!
From the article the article refers to:
Richt said mad cow disease caused by genetics is extremely rare. A recent epidemiological study estimated that the mutation affects less than 1 in 2,000 cattle. The study was done in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture-U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Neb., which is operated by the Agricultural Research Service.
Richt said the upside of knowing that mad cow disease has a genetic component is that it offers ways of stamping out the disease through selective breeding and culling of genetically affected animals. Therefore, Richt and his colleagues developed high throughput assays to offer the possibility for genetic surveillance of cattle for this rare pathogenic mutation.
"Genetic BSE we can combat," Richt said. "We have submitted a patent for a test system that can assess all bulls and cows before they're bred to see whether they have this mutation." - inactive, on 09/13/2008, -1/+4If you like it let it hurt ya, if you love it let it kill ya... Eat of the beef!
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