Does anyone have information on Mad Cow disease? it is so clouded in secrecy?!
Does anyone have information on Mad Cow disease? it is so clouded in secrecy?
I know that there is a 3 in a million chance the beef you buy in the grocery store has actually been tested, but what is really going on?
just wondering
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Those odds you give are TOTALLY based on fiction! I've seen that number before (or ones similar) and it was based on a USDA best guess without any accompanying data.
There is not only no regular testing done on animals but it's actually ILLEGAL for anyone other than the USDA to test for it! The last regular testing was stopped in August of last year and was designed with meat industry participation to *avoid* detection of BSE.
They have also been hiding the data that proves the disease can be carried through milk and that prions are found in animals waste products. I'll give you some links later (having bandwidth problems right now)
Edit:
Here's a few links Mevlana missed
lack of testing for the disease.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
http://www.creekstonefarmspremiumbeef.co...
http://www.creekstonefarmspremiumbeef.co...
Notice in the third link that testing CAN'T start before July.
general news about mad cow
http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/vie...
mad cow in milk
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/storie...
http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_m...
This is the CDC official e-mag. Just remember that anything coming from a US government source had to first pass muster by administration politcal officers
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm...
also the USDA page
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/hot_i...
Source(s):
Vegetarians do not eat fish. A fish eater is a Piscivore. Spread the correct word!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/piscivo...
Wrong category....vegetarians do not buy beef.
You are ok. They tests are in place and the chance of it happening again is less than you getting hit by a car crossing the street.
I know very little and what I know is from a video in environment science class.here are some links that hopefully help u in some way:http://www.consumerfreedom.com/issuepage... http://www.mad-cow-facts.com/index.html...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bovine_spon...
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.c...
Ah, the biggest secret of the cattle and cattle feed industry.
It was originally a disease in sheep, and being that they began adding remains of sheep to cattle feed for (cheap) protein, it mutated and jumped a species. Now it's jumped to humans from eating contaminated beef.
Cut corners to save money by feeding meat byproduct to an herbivore, and this is what you get.
The bottom line, it was greed that caused it. It has been hushed up because, by my best inference, it is far more widespread than they will admit.
The very simple truth without all those fancy media/scientific terms is: the cows were fed with sheep's brain and developed Mad Cow disease. The scientists have no cure for this disease. The beef supply for America and Europe is a gigantic amount. And that's the kind of supply for just 1 day. There's not enough time to check the entire amount for contamination of any kind. A random batch test is usually carried out and even this takes some hours. A more detailed test will be carried out on that particular batch of meat only when someone falls ill or dies from eating contaminated meat.
there are a couple of books that can help you out.
"Brain Trust", "Mad Cowboy", "How the Cows Became Mad"
Yes, supposedly the meat you buy has been tested for mad cow disease, which is completely pointless and this is why:
The virus that attacks the animal shows itself only in the late stage of disease, after it's incubation period, and by then it is too late (this can be several years).
There is NO WAY of knowing how many "healthy looking” cows carry it when they are slaughtered. So how safe is "tested meat" when it is impossible to discover the disease while it's incubating?
Scary, huh? But there's more: there is no cure for mad cow disease. Nothing is found yet, strong enough to kill the virus. Slaughtering the animal does not stop the potential incubating of the disease in its flesh.
There is no way of knowing if the meat is infected, if the cow is slaughtered before showing any symptoms. A type of this disease has also been discovered in other animals and nothing stops it from spreading to more species.
If any of us are infected, at this point there is no way of knowing until we start showing the symptoms, and then it will be too late.
What people CAN do is stay away from meat!! Choose the lifestyle which makes it impossible to catch anything that might live in animal flesh.
Meat industry has done *everything* in their power to undermine the danger of this horrible disease, so no wonder you find the subject so clouded in secrecy. Farmers have been feeding bones and meat to animals that are herbivores, going against Mother Nature, and no one found this strange!?!
Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/creut... (national library of medicine)
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cjd/d... (national institute of neurological disorders and stroke)
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tse/t... (and prions)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/vcjd/qa.h... (CDC, variant form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse/... (CDC, bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol2no4/ho... (CDC, mortality rates in the U.S.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/creutzfeldt... (wikipedia)
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/idcu/disease... (Texas, dept of state health services)
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/idcu/health/... (Texas, transmissible spongiform encepalopathies)
http://www.medicinenet.com/creutzfeldt-j... (medicine net)
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/creutzf... (mayo clinic)
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/ (U.K. information)
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/faq/ma... (sheep wastes,such as brains were fed to cows??? SICK!SICK!SICK!!!)
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/1998/106-3... (full story of sheep wastes fed to cows …above)
Sorry, but 3 in a million?
Billions of people eat meat every year, most many times.
Here in the UK, where most of the people who have ever got CJD lived, most of our 60 million population eat it, most very often. The total amount of people who have ever caught CJD in the entire world is less than 150, IIRC. 3 in a million seems like a hell of a lot.