Subject: Hate to distract you but this is about mad cow

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/06/06/mai06144.html


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Subject: Hate to distract you but this is about mad cow

i wrote the reporter about my uncle dying of mad cow and the other case i know about here in arizona, but i am sure i will never hear back. who cares if a few hundred die each year? after all bush cut the funding for the fda as one of his first actions as prez.

just sue oprah since she was the one who said she might not eat beef again. well, i have not eaten beef for years. but please do not tell the people that there is any risk by eating beef for god's sake. got to protect more of bush's buddies. oil and gas and beef. remember when he said he ate beef all the time-oh, could we be so lucky? guess not, he is already mad. read the Mad Cowboy the book written by the former texas cattle rancher who is now a vegetarian.

U.S. Mad Cow Cases Are Mysterious Strain (AP)

henry

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[Critters2]

1. My brother's pastor (and good friend) is dying of it in Minnesota

My brother keeps insisting its "spontaneous" and "idiopathic". I keep telling him there's only one known way to get it--ingest tainted meat. But his friend is at Mayo's, so he assumes the docs there wouldn't lie.

[unpossibles]

2. actually, there is a slight chance (allegedly) of getting it

spontaneously. But the odds are far greater that he ate it.

[warrens]

4. That isn't true

CJD is a well-known disease that has been killing people for decades; vCJD is the result of eating infected tissues from cattle, primarily the brain.About one in every million people will contract CJD and it nearly always strikes the elderly; vCJD is far more rare and attacks the young. The average age at death is 28.

The import of the atypical BSE cases is that no one knows how these cattle got the disease. It could quickly become an epidemic is, as some suspect, it is spread by urine or saliva. Another major problem is that they don't show any symptoms until they collapse. Classic BSE victims start acting weird, charging people, walking in circles, shying away from things that aren't there, etc.

[unpossibles]

5. hm

"acting weird, charging people, walking in circles, shying away from things that aren't there"

Maybe that's what's wrong with Bush...

[Yollam]

3. Beef imports from US are still illegal here in Japan...

...I'm hoping they stay that way.

[warrens]

6. Japan has a higher incidence than the U.S. by a lot

Of course, they test all cattle at slaughter and we don't, which is the major BSE issue here. Creekstone and others want to test every cow meant for export; the big guys say that if they do that, it will be too expensive and then U.S. consumers would start demanding it.

So what? The test is getting down to about $5 a pop in bulk. That means well under a penny a pound of beef.

[orwell]

7. I stopped eating beef...

...altogether.

I briefly worked in a pork packing plant about 30 years ago. That did it for pork products, especially hot dogs.

I live in the country.

Cows are cool. They aren't bothering me. I decided to stop eatin 'em.

I'm sure they approve...