Mad cow danger may even be bigger

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

I should point out here I'm not some radical vegan. I'm an omnivore who conitnues to eat meat including beef. In fact I had chilli for dinner tonight. I do however believe the human food supply should be safe and not questionable.


Research suggests sick animals may not show symptoms

By TODD HARTMAN
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE

Below the drumbeat of reassurances from government and the cattle industry that the meat supply remains safe despite this one case of mad cow disease, a small universe of scientists working on a family of related illnesses is finding disturbing evidence to the contrary.

Several studies, including research at a government laboratory in Montana, continue to spark questions about human susceptibility not only to mad cow, but also to sister diseases such as chronic wasting disease, which mainly affects deer and elk, and scrapie, which infects sheep.

Mice research and clusters of cases in which humans contracted a disease similar to mad cow also has a few scientists wondering whether consuming infected meat might have killed far more people than medical experts have long assumed, not only in Great Britain, but in the United States as well.

Most scientists believe the relatively small number of known human cases, called Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, strongly indicates this disease -- whatever its cause or origin -- is rare and difficult to transmit. There is also no evidence yet that scrapie in sheep or chronic wasting disease in deer has ever been passed to humans.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/156393_madcow13.html

[Clark4VotingRights]

1. All the more reason to kick the habit...

Beat the meat.

...sorry

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Well sir. Or maam.

I'll agree with you per your preference per Wesley Clark. But if you're going to preach to me about diet fugetabotit.

[leesa]

3. I can't imagine why anyone would think it is not an issue since US

cattle are fed food containing animal neural tissue. If, for some reason, you must eat meat, eat grain/grass-fed only and hope the slaughter process is efficient (less contamination with neural tissue) and somewhat clean.

[CHIMO]

4. Beliefs to Science

Don't mean to scare you but: http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html

this information is not good.
Further it appears, separately from this data, that there are several strains, some originally from the USA. Sheep have 23 different types.

[gate of the sun]

5. people should pay attention to this

I don't think it's a radical call for all of us to be vegetarian, but our food supply should be safe. I opt for organic and rarely eat beef as most of my family does not partake.I used to order it out at a resturaunt once in awhile because my family doesn't eat it but I no longer will and wonder about what I've eaten. Oh well not much to be done now. I will though eat beef only if it is organic from now on and I'm not rushing out to buy that either.

[CHIMO]

6. Agree

But we only want to hear what we like. Have you read the "Mad Cow USA"?

http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html