There is evidence U.S.A probably had mad cow disease in 1997

[glarius]

I doubt if you have heard anything about this on American TV....It is quite an eye opener from the CBC.....
Here's the story.....http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/12/usbse050412.html
There's a video with eye witnesses at the bottom of the page...

It does seem unfair to me that Canada is being painted as the purveyer of mad cow disease, under the circumstances....

[tanyev]

1. If you don't test for it,

it's like it doesn't even exist. La-la-la-la-la-la-la.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to know there was a cover up for the

beef industry. They are HUGE here and very powerful. Look at what they did to Oprah for saying she would NEVER eat beef again. They sued her! Could you imagine what would have happened had THIS info come out?

This makes me SICK!

[doodadem]

3. Thanks Glarius

Although I stopped eating beef last year, I still wonder what will show up years down the road.........

[radwriter0555]

4. Hey, can't we blame that on CLINTON'S PENIS?

:D

[glarius]

5. I heard another American person on a Canadian TV station say

that he had heard of American ranchers who had sent their tests to unreliable places and been cleared....Can't remember the exact circumstances...it was a while ago...but where there's smoke, there's fire.

[Caria]

15. And I've heard of labs

that have a hard time getting business because they ARE known for being ethical & reliable.

[LeftCoast]

6. There are people in this country who've come down with this disease

but for some strange reason (cattle industry money??) we're not hearing about the cases in the news. There is a rumor among nurses here in the Bay Area (that I give high credence to) that there is a case here.

I love how our Republican Overlords keep the public safe...

[htuttle]

7. Earliest case I've read about was in 1961

A bunch of mink at a mink farm in Central Wisconsin came down with TSE (like BSE, but for mink). They traced it to the fact they were fed 'downed cattle' (sick cattle) from a local farm.

They had another outbreak in mink in the same area in 1963. Same source, apparently.

I think it's been pervasive in our food supply for a lot longer than we realize (probably since shortly after the advent of making animal feed out of other animals). It doesn't always infect everybody, and it takes years or decades to display symptoms. I've read more than one conjecture that many cases of 'mad cow' in humans are misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's.

[Richard Steele]

13. That's NOT conjecture!

While only 2 or 3 medical studies have been done (Autopsies on brains of 'Alzheimers' patients),
those studies have ALL found a significant percentage actually suffered from some form of Spongiform Encepilopathy, NOT Alzheimers.

We have a human 'Mad Cow' EPIDEMIC going on in this country; it's just going undiagnosed and unreported.

Edit to add link:http://www.rense.com/general63/burger.htm

[SoCalDem]

8. I am starting to wonder about Alzheimer's too

I wonder if the fact that BEEF....and LOTS of it... was the protein of choice for so many years of the lives of people who are now being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, could be linked somehow..

That's the problem with so many diseases of today.. It's not like the old ones. TB, diphtheria, polio, flu, typhoid, etc.. They were acute diseases that could be traced to a particular contaminant, or exposure. The diseases of today are a culmination of lifetimes of exposure to a myriad of toxins.. That fact "protects" the ones who poisoned us.. It;s hard to pin down where the tipping point was..

[Selteri]

9. Duh, there are signs of Mad Cow showing up in the early 90s in

the human form of the disease.

[Bunny]

10. In the States?

[Selteri]

12. Yup, there was an incident with a Race Track in New Jersey

I don't remember all the details too well, but it was covered up and ignored by the media.

[Bunny]

14. Well, a quick Google search turned up a lot of news stories.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/28/earlyshow/contributors/melindamurphy/main614154.shtml

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/7648379.htm

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2004/milloy041504.htm

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=1347

http://www.nbc10.com/consumeralertarchive/3281620/detail.html

These are just a few of the stories on this. Seems to be unclear as to whether there actually was mad cow disease.

[glarius]

17. If you watch the video that comes with the CBC piece I believe you will

come to the conclusion that there was mad cow disease....Scroll down the page to the listings at the bottom....It's about 2 thirds of the way down....

[Bunny]

18. OK - I'll check that out.

Thanks!

[glarius]

19. I just noticed it's not on the CBC page anymore....Here it is

http://www.cbc.ca/clips/rm-lo/crowe_bse050412.rm

Hope I did this right...:)

[Solly Mack]

11. Back in 1994 ,while living in Colorado, cattle farmers

were doing their annual keep the rogue elk away from their cows battle..I didn't know this was an issue until it was explained to me...

rogue elk, males who didn't win their fight to mate, would try mating with cows.

Anyway...during the course of my discovery of the ways of the rogue elk, I learned that one of the other major concerns were the deer population....seems they had found several deer with BSE...and they had traced the "culprit" back to those food bins put out for deers in the winter...animal parts being used in the feed...test, thus far, showed that to be the case anyway.

the ranger..that's ranger, as in park ranger...not rancher... who was telling me about the deer said it was only a matter of time before it hit human population...and that it may already have (considering people hunt and eat deer)

This was 1994. 11 years ago...

[glarius]

16. If you watch the video that comes with the CBC piece I believe you will

come to the conclusion that there was mad cow disease....Scroll down the page to the listings at the bottom....It's about 2 thirds of the way down....SORRY...I MEANT THIS POST FOR BUNNY!