U.S. says it will slaughter hundreds of cattle to contain BSE

[frogfromthenorth2]

"BSE is commonly called mad cow disease.


In one herd, 450 animals will be killed. They are all calves; one is the calf of the infected animal. But there are no records showing which animal is the calf they're looking for, so all will be killed."

SNIP

"DeHaven says the other animals need to be tracked down because of fears the one confirmed case was caused by contaminated cattle feed. Most cases of BSE have been linked to animals eating supplements that contained protein from sheep or cows. "



http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/05/usbse040105

[madrchsod]

1. silly me

i thought the president said there`s nothing wrong. so kids eat up those tasty school lunch burgers....

[CHIMO]

2. Don't Worry

Be Happy.

http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html

But don't read this book!

You want to stay happy. Right.

[pansypoo53219]

3. too little

too fuckin late

[fortyfeetunder]

4. Why does this smell like a crock of bull...

shit?

They can't run a DNA test on these animals to figure out who is "Elsie's" (for lack of a better name) calf? So killing them all is cheaper?

[Nihil]

5. What are they doing with the carcasses?

Wonder if they will do the same dumb things as our government did?

1) Kill the animals on site then transport the bleeding bodies for
miles along country roads into disease-free counties, bury them in
landfills and trying to pretend that the big puddles of blood that
leaked from the lorries were no risk.

2) Big (BIG) funeral pyres that sent greasy black particulate-rich
smoke over miles of adjoining countryside - just great thinking for
disposing of the end-product of an airborne disease.

3) Kill all the livestock of small farmers but allow those of the
large conglomerates to claim that their herd was in fields outside
the exclusion zone at the time.

4) Run the entire process from spreadsheets in a London department,
staffed by statisticians and politicians while ignoring the views of
the rural vets.

I'm still disgusted at how long the meat industry kept the lid on
this problem, long after it had been discovered & reported as a real
disease in the wild.

Nihil

[Venomous_Rhetoric]

6. Amazing

I read how you Brits did things during your mad cow panic.
It seems the Americans and Canadians are doing the exact same thing. Almost word for word, action by action. Even down to politicians posing for a pic eating a burger with their kids.

Some people learned, like hog farmers around here. they voluntarly quit using MBM in their pig feeds soon as that Canadian cow was spotted last spring. Some before that when the UK was having its problems.
I wish these stupid governments would just wake up and realize they must test every single cow used for human food and be done with it.

Notice I said governments, the Canadian and American systems are vertualy identical. It's an integrated industry.

Do they really think the general public doesn't know about the other 1.7 million cows exported from canada last year, and the year before that, and the year before that?
Blaming Canada really isn't a good idea, LoL

[dusty64]

7. As a vegetarian I find

this very sad, the killing of month old babies. However, I find it odd that they are not simply giving them a humane lethal injection. Why aren't they, are they afraid it will spoil the "meat". Just wondering.

[Venomous_Rhetoric]

9. This is disturbing....

http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4047764

Family and friends of victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the fatal brain disorder sometimes linked to mad cow disease, on Friday questioned whether the victims contracted the condition from contaminated U.S. beef.

After federal authorities said on Tuesday that a cow in Washington state was found to have the disorder known as mad cow disease, public health experts have been calling for a review of the U.S. Agriculture Department's screening procedures for cattle.

Some researchers believe that the human form of the disease has already hit the United States, but that the government either did not put the pieces together or was slow in notifying the public and the beef industry. So far, victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in the United States have never been linked to U.S.-produced beef.

A spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said he did not know if there was any ongoing investigation into whether cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease were related to U.S. beef.

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[Venomous_Rhetoric]

17. ooops

ok, sorry.

[dbt]

8. This is way worse that we're being led to believe,

now isn't it? Just the way it was projected in the brilliantly depressing book I got for Chri$tma$, Everything You Know Is Wrong.

The edition I received was published in 2002.

Cheers,
:freak:
dbt

[Venomous_Rhetoric]

12. Have you

read Mad Cow USA?

download free here pdf 283 pages



oops here: http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html

[cthrumatrix]

10. media and admin "cover-up" ...it was much worse and slowly it leeks

all for the corporations...screw the consumer

[TeeYiYi]

11. But, but . . . I thought there was only ONE mad cow. ....n/t

TYY :eyes:

[leesa]

13. Don't think for a minute these animal byproducts aren't going into food

They will slaughter some like this and then declare "problem solved"

[aeon flux]

14. This is a dramatic publicity stunt

to make the public think they are actually doing something about the problem of mad cow disease.

What the FDA really should be doing is putting a ban on feeding livestock waste to cows (cow cannibalism). The current feed 'ban' turns out to be a mere 'labeling' requirement. As long as cows that are fed cow parts are labeled as such, the practice is allowed.

[Venomous_Rhetoric]

15. It won't work

If this vCJD is appearing, like it looks like it is, this is big big big stuff!

They insisted there were NO cases of vCJD in the USA, now we see at least 7 people have died!!! and those others are possible as well, but are being blamed on wild game. that makes 10! plus there are 3 more on the west coast, also blamed on hunters eating game which has a completley different strain of TSE.
This is how it started in the UK

This is how majors got kicked out of Government in the UK and they elected labor party. It was because the government covered up and lied about BSE and vCJD started killing people.