Public likely ate suspect (mad) cow meat

[DuctapeFatwa]

Northwest residents probably have eaten meat from a Holstein with mad cow disease, agriculture officials said Friday, as several grocery chains recalled specific kinds of beef that could contain the cow's meat.

Albertsons, Fred Meyer, Safeway and WinCo Foods all received batches of beef, which could have contained bits of the sick cow, from Interstate Meat Distributors in Portland. It was sold mostly as ground beef to Northwest customers from about Dec. 15 through Dec. 23 -- although Safeway's recall includes 69 pounds of "fresh beef hearts."

"From a practical standpoint, some of this has already been consumed and can't be recalled," given the beef's distribution dates, said Dalton Hobbes, a spokesman for Oregon's Department of Agriculture.

Also Friday, a U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman said the sick cow's discovery was partly luck: Another of the 20 cows being slaughtered at Vern's Moses Lake Meats on Dec. 9 was acting strangely,..."It's very ironic, actually," Puzo said....

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/107253027911210.xml

[dodgerartful]

1. dont trust a dead fish wrapper for your

news....

[Wonk]

2. You're still here in spite of all your drama in the lounge earlier today?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=604620&mesg_id=604620

[madrchsod]

4. i thought he left???

must be a ghost

[dodgerartful]

7. boo.

[Wonk]

21. Bye.

[dodgerartful]

5. and you are some one who can

do something for me-to me- about me?

[DrWeird]

8. Well, he can point out inconsistencies...

and intellectual dishonesty.

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[maggrwaggr]

17. have you shot-to-wound anyone at your front door lately?

just curious since in your other post you said you would.

Hello! Avon calling! Jews for Jesus!

[cliss]

11. he heh

Looks like I missed out on some excitement today. Interesting thread.

[DUreader]

3. I don't see the irony, unless Veneman(sp?) or Bush* ate it

[arewethereyet]

6. meat is not the problem

brain or spinal column is. think "beef by-products".

[DUreader]

13. "ground beef" may contain those by-products

there is no way to know yet.

Notice it is not ground chuck or ground sirloin etc.

[maggrwaggr]

18. uh, last time I checked

muscle tissue is served by nerve tissue.

If it wasn't you wouldn't feel pain when you had sore muscles, and you wouldn't be able to move them.

[Lindacooks]

19. It's very difficult

to remove all of the spinal cord and nerve tissue from meat, especially ground beef products. They shave the meat away from the bone in many cases, so there's bound to be that tissue in the ground meat. I am officially giving up ground beef, and don't eat much meat anyway. I'm using TVP, in the form of 'protein crumbles'. Don't make a face - the new types are really delicious. (http://www.kelloggs.com/brand/msfarms/home.html) And no, I don't work for them! You get the taste and texture of ground beef when used in recipes, without mad cow or any nasty surprises like bits of bone or gristle (yuck).

[JasonDeter]

9. This has got to be a line straight out of bushies mouth!! Hilarious!!

"From a practical standpoint, some of this has already been consumed and can't be recalled,"

[cliss]

10. Well, that's reassuring.

Just the stores I shop at. I would be throwing up right now, except for the fact that I don't eat meat.

This is such horrific news for us in Portland. Think of the hands gripping at the chest right now, the sweat building on the brow, the regret for not having gone vegetarian earlier. "If only..."

Let's hope no one gets sick from this. Awful news to greet the new year with. Thanks, Beef Council.

[zbdent]

12. Bush told us that the meat was safe to eat, so it's okay.

Of course, I bet they still sell pretzels in Washington DC, too . . .

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

16. I ate beef not 72 hours ago!

I admit, I'm a little worried!

[Karenina]

22. Worry serves no constructive purpose, WCTV

IIRC, Geroge Ballanchine (American Ballet Theatre) died from "mad cow" YEARS ago. It has been in the food chain for YEARS. If there were a concerted effort to autopsy all those who were assumed to have had Alzheimers... :shrug: When the "scare" hit Europe, some "business concerns" sent the shit out of the country, repackaged it and shipped it RIGHT BACK IN. Lots were caught as the Germans don't play. I STILL only eat beef from local sources.

The BEST that can come out of this is a MASSIVE WAKE-UP call on factory farming. Hog farms have POISONED the waterways in N.C. and after reading RFK Jr.'s piece on chicken farming a few years back, I decided to get it from the Halal or the local farmer where I could go see the dumbass creatures come up to the fence and cluck at me. (I grew up with chickens and gathered eggs as a kid. They perform a valuable service in being tasty as they're useless for anything else! Call it "speciesism." :evilgrin:)

The HAUPTPUNKT is the *Gubmint is BULLSHITTING y'all once again in a blatant attempt to value corporate profits over the lives of American citizens.

[Generic Other]

20. Link between mad cow and anthrax vaccines?

<snip>Drugs and vaccines, including those given to millions of American children, have been made with products that could carry mad cow disease, in defiance of repeated requests from the Food and Drug Administration, the New York Times reported:

"The nine vaccines include some regularly given to millions of American children, including common vaccines to prevent polio, diphtheria and tetanus," the paper wrote. "They also include the anthrax vaccine, which the government requires for soldiers serving in the Persian Gulf."<snip>

http://whyfiles.org/012mad_cow/