Mad cow

danger boy

Ok. so there is the first ever case of mad cow disease in the US. Now what? will you and your family stop eating beef?

Personally, i won't change my beef eating habits.. not that I even eat that much beef anyways.. i prefer instead to consume all the meats equally in my home..

What's better than a nice, fat, juicy hunk of beef grilled up on the Bar B Que? Nothing.

what are your thoughts on this?

Is the media just blowing it out of proportion again?

Is there a need for US consumers to be concerned?

FYI, beef prices should begin to drop soon. Tyson chicken has already seen an increase in their stocks. Wow. that was sure fast.

dcarlson

I'm not concerned and I wasn't when we up north had the one case. It cost the Canadian beef industry billions though. I'd be more concerned about the ranchers.

It's funny I haven't heard the actually odds of being infected from that single case. I imagine it's astronomical.

warviper

This might be good for the consumer. have you seen th ebeef prices latley? This should bring the prices down quick.

shiznit311

F it. I'm still eating it.

amulford

Let us get something straight.

YOU CANNOT CANNOT CATCH IT FROM EATING BEEF!!!

You kill everything when you cook it, unless you don't cook it thoroughly(i.e. raw in the middle)

Besides the fact, look around the world folks, do you think all the f#ckin' lunatics got it from eating mad cow meat?

"I'd be more concerned about the ranchers."

You are very right in that respect. That little bug spreads like a plague. This could be devastating to the beef farming industry in the US. The economy of this country doesn't need a hit like this.

God, I hope they keep it contained...:(

danger boy

the mad cow disease is only found in the brain and the spinal cord... which are parts not for human consumption usuallly.. that is unless you are a regular on Fear Factor.. whereby you eat really gross things like cow brains. :eek:

ninerbj

I will continue to chow down on burgers and steaks, but just in case the prices go way up and I can't afford a $40 big Mac...I will gladly substitue for the next best thing...
A nice juicy beaver!
IT'S MAD I SAY!!! lol:p

Loud & Clear

Originally posted by amulford
Let us get something straight.

YOU CANNOT CANNOT CATCH IT FROM EATING BEEF!!!

You kill everything when you cook it, unless you don't cook it thoroughly(i.e. raw in the middle)

Besides the fact, look around the world folks, do you think all the f#ckin' lunatics got it from eating mad cow meat?

"I'd be more concerned about the ranchers."

You are very right in that respect. That little bug spreads like a plague. This could be devastating to the beef farming industry in the US. The economy of this country doesn't need a hit like this.

God, I hope they keep it contained...:(

Let us get something straight indeed: Mad Cow, to the best of my knowledge, isn't even alive, so you certainly don't kill it when you cook it. It also has a lengthy incubation period, so there may be people walking around with it who don't know that they're dead men and women walking.

Slaughter houses are extremely messy, with bits and pieces flying everywhere, and you'll find brain matter in packaged beef, at least some variety of packaged beef. I certainly wouldn't want to dine on beef that came from a cow with Mad Cow disease.

Loud & Clear

Found this, just to clarify a couple of points I made...

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal neurological disease in cows. Researchers believe cows got it from feed that contained slaughtered sheep parts, including infected brain tissue. (This type of feed has since been banned in both the United Kingdom and the United States.) Because the infecting agent isn't viral or bacterial (it's thought to be a simple protein molecule called a prion), cooking beef doesn't protect humans against the infection.

The disease humans get from eating infected meat is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jackob disease or vCJD. The first symptoms are memory loss, confusion, strange behavior, and difficulty walking. However, these don't appear until the end of an incubation period, which can last up to 15 years. The disease is rare, but cows aren't the only carriers -- it may also be picked up from a corneal transplant, and can theoretically be transmitted via blood transfusions. (No such cases have yet been confirmed.)

VE6OHV

OK -
I live in Alberta, where our outbreak started. I have to say that the economical effects that the BSE scare has had on the entire country is HUGE at best. Prices of beef localy have not changed at all, in fact some cuts of beef that were allowed for export actually rose in price. I work in the trucking industry and we have all felt the ripple effects from the cattle industry. The saving grace in Alberta is the Oil and Gas, without that revenue it would have caused an economic tailspin that would have made "Black Monday" look like a childrens picnic.

Read all the information you can and then make an INFORMED decision. Don't let the media's scare tactics sway your opinion.

Best of luck - there are people across the country that will be greatly affected by this news.

amulford

Originally posted by Loud & Clear
Found this, just to clarify a couple of points I made...

Because the infecting agent isn't viral or bacterial (it's thought to be a simple protein molecule called a prion), cooking beef doesn't protect humans against the infection.

I stand to be corrected. Thank you for the clarification.

However, the real problem is that you can only test the animal by killing it. Thus the practice of euthanizing en masse the entire herd where it has been found.

It would be devastating.

danger boy

since the mad cow disease affects cows brains and spinal cord.. why not give the cow a spinal tap? that way you could test the animal without killling it..

makes sense doesn't it?

Al