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Yes, now we will have to burn all our cows and see everyone bar their borders to US meat.
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No need to panic yet. Just wait until they check up on the history of the cow. It's a noncommmunicable disease. Besides, Holstein is a dairy cow. We don't normally eat dairy cows. No worries.
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Yeah DW, also, we rarely eat the parts that are known for being an infectious part.
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To quote a comedian whose name eludes me at the moment, "Who @#$@ed up the meat?!?!" I'm sure it'll pass and no serious harm will be done.
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Japan, Mexico, and others have already put a temporary ban on our beef.
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<font color=#FFFF00>I'm sure the beef won't be in any real danger from an isolated incident like this. Well, the question is how isolated is it? How did this cow contract the disease in the first place? Wqas it thru animal feed? That's the real danger. If anything, this should be a shot in the arm for organic beef. Upside for consumers is that beef should be getting pretty cheap here as all the exports dry up. |
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LOL! I was actually thinking the price of beef should fall soon. I'm glad for that, I love beef but it was faaaaaaaar to expensive, thanks to Atkins. And a ban because of one cow? Those people are being way too paranoid. We don't eat the nervous tissue, which is where the most infectious portions are. AND...in the entire history of Bovine Spongioform Encephalopathy there has only been roughly 60 cases of humans getting it. Think, millions of cows...60 people. The chances of anyone coming down with this over here from ONE bloody HOLSTEIN is practically nil.
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Uhm... DW... I think you're forgetting one tiny detail. You're right, the disease is hardly dangerous for humans. But it's lethal for cows. Farmers don't want a lethal disease descimating their cattle. That's why they have to rigidly quarantaine this case, before it becomes uncontrolable.
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*Rolls eyes* Trust me...I know more about BSE than you'd want to know. We've studied it quite thoroughly. Aye, it is deadly to cows. But the route of infection is not common. It is not a communicable disease. Just housing normal cows and BSE infected cows together isn't going to cause the spread of it. I think it's just a "new disease" scare. ONE cow...don't worry about it. Worry more about West Nile. That's something worth worrying about. And it's still not that bad.
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Ah it's still the vector you worry about
Anyway, it's not the disease itself you worry about but the puiblic conception.
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Well on that we can agree. The human populace is going to ape over Mad Cows now and get all freaked out over it. Fall, beef prices, fall! Mwahahahaha.
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To add to the frenzy, I heard just today in a news report that the cow was actually imported from Canada TO the US a few years ago. They're running tests on calves in both countries that are supposedly from this cow. I suppose the US will start banning imported beef now too? I have a novel idea, why doesn't everyone just GROW THEIR OWN FOOD?!? Maybe then imported illnesses will be a non-issue? Oh wait, I forgot, that's so 19th century. Corporate greed and consumerism doesn't allow for that. Begging your pardon then. 
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/me eats a burger without pissing himself with fear
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Good show, Woods. And I'm not surprised the cow came from Canada. Canada has had a few cases of BSE...which, surprisingly enough, can be traced back to the UK. All the cases of BSE from around the world either come from cows imported from the UK or by the meat and bone meal before the ban.
No need to panic, folks. If the cow's only been in the country for a few years...means the cow can only have had 2 or 3 calves. Transmission between dam and offspring is not very well documented at all. But...if you really want to assume the calves are indeed infected, it won't be hard to get them and destroy them. Only the 2 and 3 year old calves would be old enough now for breeding, so you are looking at maybe 2 other calves. Making a total of 6 cows to destroy. Big whoop.
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i guess pho hooked up with the P.E.T.A crowd
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Not just kill, Pho. You'd still have the carcass. Destroy not only means killing the cows, but completely getting rid of their bodies so that chance of other cows getting into them is nil.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...n_re_us/mad_cowJust thought I'd bring this to the board. *shrug* Regardless, I'm still going to eat beef. wewt fer steak ! MMMMMM ! =P Honestly, I'm not all that worried about it. When it starts hitting here in Nebraska, then it _might_ make me look twice just for the sheer amount of cows we've got here, but I'll still go home and eat my hamburgers. Hehe. I love how they write this article. It almost has panic written all over it, but at the same time, it doesn't. Ok, just ignore me, I'm not feeling too well. Hehe. =P GAME ON !
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