[Dog Gone]

If Mad Cow disease isn't a threat to this country, then how do you explain Barbara Boxer?

[Fury]

A couple of comments:

The prions used in the experiment were the type that cause scrapie, the brain-wasting disease that afflicts sheep.

Scrapie can also occur in goats.

Scrapie is believed to have jumped the species barrier to cows - triggering BSE - but has not been found to be a direct risk to humans.

This is one of several ideas on how BSE started, but there is not yet enough science to make this a definitive statement.

[riri]

I really wish I had not read this.

[pke]

"Beavers and ducks!"

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[secretagent]

If sick cows were reliably not entering the human food chain, then there would be no reason to worry because of our new findings."

Sicks cows do reliably enter the food chain, I read. Only massive doses of antibiotics keep them standing.

Even that doesn't help them for long, but they get slaughtered just in time so they can walk to their death.

Or so I've read.

[IGBT]

..does cooking remove/kill this thing??

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Thursday, January 20, 2005 commentary:
USDA insider reveals the truth: mad cow disease is epidemic, USDA labs fraudulently cover up test results
This is one of the most important stories on mad cow disease to come out yet. If what this article says is true, it means the USDA is engaged in a massive coverup of mad cow disease. They accomplish this by using a bogus laboratory that routinely determines all cow brain samples to be "negative" for mad cow disease, even when they are positive. This lab, called the National Veterinary Services Laborities, is extremely secretive and has refused to release test results to veterinarians. The situation is so bad that veterinarians call the USDA's mad cow surveillance program, "a laughing matter."..........snipped

http://www.newstarget.com/000914.html