Bush pledges his allegiance to beef

[DuctapeFatwa]

U.S. President George W. Bush has no plans to stop eating beef despite growing U.S. worries about mad cow disease, a White House spokesman says.

"He's continued to eat beef," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters travelling with the president to his ranch. The U.S. food supply is safe and public risk from the discovery of the disease is low, McClellan added.

The president had had beef "in the last couple of days," McClellan said.

Economic stakes in the U.S. mad cow scare rose as Venezuela and Egypt joined some two dozen nations that have halted imports of U.S. beef. Food company stocks and cattle prices tumbled as investors worried that U.S. consumers could begin to eat less beef.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031227/325/ehw4m.html

[Rose Siding]

1. I'm able now to make an accurate diagnosis

Thank you.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. He should be pledging his allegiance to something else..

He should be pledging allegiance to whatever comes out of the beef's backside.

[burrowowl]

3. Bu$h doesn't have to worry

He doesn't have a brain.

[kskiska]

4. He has the diet of a 13-yr. old

and can't imagine life without his beloved cheeseburgers.

[maxanne]

5. is beef the cause

of mad cowboy disease?

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. " Is beef the cause of mad cowboy disease?" - Well, I dunno, but

.
.
.

[jamesinca]

14. a thing called a "prion" is responsible

I posted this in a thread a few days ago. I hope it helps. By the way this is a fine day to become a vegetarian.
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is its name, it is also called mad cow disease. It is a disease similar to scrapie. It emerged in cattle in Great Britan in 1986, and by 1995 there had been 150,000 cases. This outbreak was traced to the use of cattle feed that contained contaminated bone meal from scrapie-infected sheep carcasses (cross species spread) and BSE-infected cattle carcasses processed in a way that failed to destroy the infectivity of the infectious agent. The use of such cattle feed was prohibited in 1988. BSE has also been found in other European countries.

In 1996, a variant form of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease was recognized in the United Kingdom that occured in younger people and had distinctive pathologic characteristics similar to those seen in macaques infected with the BSE agent. The concern, whose validity is still unconfirmed, is that the BSE agent has spread to humans through ingestion of BSE-infected tissues.

It is a degenerative Central Nervous System (CNS) disease. It is described as subacute spongiform viral encephalopathies. It is caused by a thing know as a prion. It is not a virus or bacteria! They are sensitive to about 90% phenol, bleach, ether, acetone, iodine disinfectants and autoclaving. None of which can be done to humans without killing them. You can not put phenol or bleach into your veins or CNS.

There are several hallmarks of diseases casued by prions. They are confined to the nervous system. The basic lesion is a progressive vacuolation in neurons, an extensive astroglial hypertrophy and proliferation, and then a spongiform change in the gray matter. If making the brain look like a sponge is not enough, amyloid plaques may be present. Amyloid plaques are the same things that are present in Alzheimers disease. They have long incubation periods of months to decades, just like AIDS / HIV. This is followed by chronic progressive illness of weeks to years. The diseases are ALWAYS fatal, with no know remissions or recoveries. Ths host shows no inflammatory or immune response.

In short it can take years for this disease of the nervous system to start showing signs, it will present like Alzheimers disease and turn your brain into something that looks like a sponge or Swiss cheese. After the clinical manifestations appear, up to a decade later, it is usually weeks to months before death.

[maxanne]

41. thanks jamesinca

but my comment in post #5 was intended to be ironic.

[JPace]

6. I wonder if he pledges daily?

I Bush....Pledge allegiance to the beef
of the United States of America,
One herd...Under God...with steaks and
ribs for all.

[DS1]

7. Doing the 'Mad Cow' is when you stand on your head

and drink from a keg that's being pumped by your frat brothers.

[pinniped]

8. Eat some from WA state then you AHOLE.

To pres. DUMMY:

That's a state out west and not the same place where you're illegally occupying that WH.

[are_we_united_yet]

9. Keep eating

Keep eating

[Lori Price CLG]

19. Yes, we can only hope that Bush eats TONS of beef!!

Let's hope for the best!

:bounce:

Cheers,
Lori Price
http://www.legitgov.org/

[Lori Price CLG]

45. Cheney needs to gooble it up, too -- and AshKKKroft, Rove, etc..

The entire Bush dictatorship needs to eat as much beef as possible.

Cheers,
:)-Lori Price
http://www.legitgov.org/

[carols]

48. Beef for breakfast, Beef for lunch, Beef for tea-time, Beef for dinner and

Beef for that all-important midnight snack...
Carol

[are_we_united_yet]

49. In fact, lets have an "all you can eat BBQ" for all of 'em!

With a "special Canadian flair" if you know what I mean.

:)

[Lil_Stinker]

57. Yes, we can only hope that Bush eats TONS of beef!!"

Tell me.. how can he eat beef when he can't even eat one lousy pretzel?

LS

[pfitz59]

11. We know of his allegiance to the BFEE!

but what about BEEF!

[smirkymonkey]

56. Aren't they pretty much the

same thing?? Or maybe monkey boy's dyslexia is acting up again??

[pinto]

12. Is GW falling down again? Geez.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Gee the folks in the UK most be laughing

Think people, didn't John Major do exactly THIS?

[aquart]

15. That would be the FORMER prime minister?

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Yes and Carlyle group member

[number6]

16. have some mad cow George

the madness of King (smirk) George

[cliss]

17. I doubt it.

Here in the U.S., we've gone back to the Medieval Times of rulership. We have out own Feudal Lord, and we are the serfs.

In those days, they had 'food tasters', poor wretches who had to be the guinea pigs for the kind. I'm sure he has one, or else he's importing his hamburger patties from Argentina.

[PurityOfEssence]

18. Hmmm...worshipping the golden calf...I seem to recall something about that

He is a "cowboy", after all...

[Skittles]

20. LIKE WE COULD EVER TELL IF THAT STUPID F*** HAD MAD COW

what a f***ing dipshit.

[lebkuchen]

21. The irony

I've been asking "where's the beef?" in this administration for three years.

Bush has had a "beef" with nearly every country, and it contents, since WH inception.

The Great Spirits do have a sense of humor when meting out Bush's karma chits.

[MetaTrope]

22. Destroy the cattle industry

and you destroy Bush's favorite hobby of cattle mutilation...

[Maccagirl]

23. Dubya-I pledge allegiance to the United Steaks of Umerica

and to the Cattlemen from whom I raise million...

[daleo]

24. Expect to see him with a meatball in each hand

Yelling "Bring it on, mad cows".

[IndianaGreen]

26. Bawahahahahaha

Expect to see him with a meatball in each hand yelling "Bring it on, mad cows".

Most excellent point, daleo! LMAF

[are_we_united_yet]

50. Yes that was pretty funny!

I must admit :)

[drscm]

27. Do you have to say "undergod" when you pledge allegience to beef?

eom

[latebloomer]

28. He's probably secretly eating organically raised beef.

He can afford to.

[Tinoire]

29. Ah memories of UK's Gummer

May 1990:
Agriculture minister John Gummer attempts to allay public fears about the safety of beef by feeding his daughter, Cordelia, a hamburger.

[teryang]

30. I understand from a foreign newspaper source

...translated for me by wife, that there were two widespread outbreaks of this earlier in the twentieth century here in the States. Large numbers of people were affected.

There are technological means to track individual cows alive and dead and their history and genealogy. They are not being used widely because of the marginal costs which cut into profit margins. The fact that the disease has a latent nature places this public health threat in the classic industry versus consumer posture. American spot testing of beef for the disorder is woefully inadequate compared to Canada and Great Britain.

There will be large numbers of products liability lawsuits if this problem is not contained.

[54anickel]

37. Must be one of the reasons he's pushing so hard for torte reform. Gotta

limit the amount folks can sue for. They'll reimburse you the cost of the rump roast. :evilgrin:

[reprobate]

40. Teryang, do you have any more info on the previous outbreaks?

[truthisfreedom]

31. no, that can't be right. bush already pledged his allegiance to the oil

industry, the military-industrial complex, the death penalty, the neo-cons, the religious right and the ultra-rich. i don't think he has any more allegiance left to pledge. he's over-pledged already.

[Vis Numar]

32. Let's hope

<i>White House officials said that the U.S. beef supply is safe for consumers and a spokesman said President Bush continues to eat beef.</i>

[Robb]

34. Isn't it just

...don't eat brains or spinal tissue? Striated muscle meat is just fine? Or do I not understand prion diseases? :shrug:

[whatelseisnew]

36. Depends on butchering techniques, blades can be contaminated

particularly spinal tissue as the brain is easy to avoid.

[54anickel]

38. Until the ban in '97, that's what they'd grind up into the cattle feed.

But remember we are soooo deregulated now, they still grind this stuff up for chicken and pork feed, some can easily get into the cattle feed as well. Ever been to a big feedmill operation? It's not like they clean out the elevators each time they are emptied or they change what they toss into them.

All they can do is test every animal on its way to slaughter, incinerate those that fail, and stop grinding cattle up for other animal feed. The testing would only add 2 to 3 cents per pound for chrissake!

[54anickel]

39. Here's a link that's pretty interesting, the guy who won a Nobel prize

for his work on prions.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/prusiner122503.cfm

[Spirochete]

33. Wish they made pretzels out of beef.

[cowpie]

35. ground beef

is apparently the dangerous stuff. I hope the problem is contained, but if the cows don't have stockpiles of WMD's they will get little attention.

[PaDUer]

42. He'll eat the beef...

because ALL of his food is fed to mice first...if they die, he doesn't eat it.

[dawn]

43. I hope more consumers stop eating beef!

I don't see how that's a bad thing.

[shanti]

46. only to the beef industry

i will now only eat beef bought from REPUTABLE and CERTIFIED markets, i.e., my local co-op. they explained exactly where they get their beef (locally, in california), how the ranch operates, and their entire meat policy on the phone.

sure, it's going to cost more, but i won't be eating as much of it either.

[BentleyJD]

44. oh well

since Bush is lacking a brain, he's safe anyway.
"If I only had a brain."

[goforit]

47. How foolish can he be?

He can have all the beef he wants.

[are_we_united_yet]

51. Maybe his livestock were grown in petri dishes

[Jazzgirl]

52. I pledge allegiance to the beef

of the United States of America. And to the hoof for which it stands one cow or holstein visible with liberty and steaks for all....

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[T_i_B]

53. Any Brits here?

Maybe we could remind the Bushies of John Selwyn Gummer.

Sad to see you lot have all this BSE gumph too.

[Triana]

54. breathe dirty air, drink filthy water, eat tainted meat...

...vote Republican. ;)

http://www.northernsun.com

(not sure if I got the quote right, but it's something like that...)

[chromotone]

55. He eats the cow...

We eat the bull.