Mad cow danger may even be bigger

SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE / Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | January 13, 2004 | TODD HARTMAN

[Freebird Forever]

For your thoughts & opinions.

[Zipporah]

My thoughts? Time to become a vegetarian..

[Freebird Forever]

Thoughts, opinions & high volume pings appreciated.

[Freebird Forever]

Time to become a vegetarian.

I do think it's prudent to be as informed on this topic as possible. But giving up all meat is something I'd like to avoid. Steak is one of life's little pleasures.

[MEG33]

I have studied the odds and decided to continue eating beef as usual.

[Agnes Heep]

Scientists in Great Britain injected tissue from a cow with mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalapothy, into mice whose brains were genetically engineered with human genes.

For more valid results I would have cooked and digested the tissue first. But you can be damned sure I'm going to cut down on injecting infected tissue into my brain.

[BlackbirdSST]

But you can be damned sure I'm going to cut down on injecting infected tissue into my brain.

Man, that's gotta hurt! Blackbird.

[ClearCase_guy]

Injecting infected tissue into my brain is one of life's little pleasures.

[joesnuffy]

there goes my stock in Weber grills......

[sticker]

I keep remembering all the things that "research" has shown to cause DANGER TO HUMANS!!!. Things like peanut butter causes cancer, any non-sugar sweetener causes cancer(if you drink 40 gallons of the stuff everyday for 50 years) and all the rest. But, I guess an outbreak of a brain-wasting disease would explain the democRAT party

[Lazamataz]

If I eat carbs, I'll become fat and die.

If I eat meat, I'll get chronic wasting disease, become thin, and die.

I'll take thin, please.

[Freebird Forever]

I'm going to cut down on injecting infected tissue into my brain.

That's sound reasoning.

I fully concur.

[Freebird Forever]

I guess an outbreak of a brain-wasting disease would explain the democRAT party

Truer words are rarely spoken.

[punster]

"But, I guess an outbreak of a brain-wasting disease would explain the democRAT party"

Of course, you know there have been observations of Mad Cow in New York State, everywhere Broomstick One has landed.

[Hostage]

Time to become a vegetarian.

Several years ago while discussing BSE I made the same quip to a Dept. of Agriculture official sitting next to me on a plane.

The response was "you can't escape it by becoming a vegetarian". Do you know why?

[MEGoody]

Wonder if the writer is a vegan trying to get the rests of us to swear off beef.

Nah, couldn't be.

[Freebird Forever]

Injecting infected tissue into my brain is one of life's little pleasures.

Did you used to party with Keith Richards?

; )

[hotpotato]

You are safe eating steak. Just don't eat the chicken feed.

[ClearCase_guy]

I used to party with Keith all the time! Then I got me knighthood and he stopped returning my calls. What a wanker!

[Freebird Forever]

Wonder if the writer is a vegan trying to get the rests of us to swear off beef.

My current understanding is that beef raised here in Texas is still safe. I would encourage y'all to forgo vegenism and support our ranchers.