Mad Cow in Alabama.

[Maddy McCall]

Anyone else thinking seriously about giving up beef? How could something that tastes so good potentially be so bad for you?

I might as well give up beef, because I wouldn't enjoy eating a steak and then wondering if I'm sealing my fate with each bite. No more hamburger, period.

What about other meat eaters in DU? Are you considering giving up beef, too?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Okay, Maddy. I'm in Alabama, I'm mad... But don't call me a cow.

(Had a nice Sirloin earlier this evening that had been marinating in Dale's sauce and mesquite all day... Yummm).

*twitch*

[Maddy McCall]

3. Tom, you stud bull!

:D

I had a ribeye night before last and a sirloin today. *spasm* *stumble*

[Deja Q]

2. I just wanna live so I can get the final season of Blake's 7 on DVD.

I'll be content to die after July.

[Maddy McCall]

4. LOL!!

I'm living for the next season of HBO's Rome, which is scheduled for 2007.

:hi:

[Deja Q]

8. LOL

Dunno why, but I chuckled at your response. :D

:hi:

But I think you have more to live for than I. :)

[Maddy McCall]

12. Nah, friend.

Just imagine the partying that we will do on the day after general elections for the Senate this year. Party, Party, Party. That and having a new Democratic president in 08 makes me want to stay around at least for the rest of this decade.

:D :hi:

[merh]

5. Not me, I love beef.

No silly ole mad cow will make me give up a good steak.

:D

[Maddy McCall]

10. Is there anything better?

Sex, MAYBE, but I don't know--it's close. Maybe steak and then sex on the same night. That's the perfect date! :D

:hug:

[merh]

14. Exactly!

:9 Sugah, if I was worried about things killing me, I wouldn't be living where I live, I wouldn't ever leave my house and I definitely wouldn't smoke.

You can have my alcohol, you can take away the car keys and I'll even consider giving up the smokes, but don't you dare try to take away my steaks or my roast beef poboys or my greasy cheese burgers.

:hug:

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. For real?

God damn.

[Maddy McCall]

11. YEs. Third confirmed case in the US.

One was an imported cow from Canada. Second was Texas, and third was Louisiana. It's in LBN tonight. :scared:

[RevolutionaryActs]

16. Damn it.

I don't eat tons of beef, but I do enjoy a good hamburger. I don't think I'll cut back though, we're all gonna die eventually. Might as well enjoy my time here and eat what I want.

[Maddy McCall]

23. Ok, I'm not saying this to gross you out.

But hamburger is the most dangerous "mad cow" food you can eat. Cuts of meat that are not near the spinal area are much less dangerous...

I'm thinking about buying a meat grinder and making my own burger meat from roasts or other cuts. You can get them for pretty cheap. Around $70 or $80 for electric ones.

[crispini]

26. You can buy the hand grinders for like $10 in an antique shop.

They usually work pretty well too.

I'm thinking that grind your own, 100% organic fed beef is the way to go, if you're gonna do beef.

[Maddy McCall]

28. My dad has a hand-crank grinder...it's an antique...he used to use it to..

make sausage when we were kids.

I had not thought about using that!

[Kali]

34. you will REALLY appreciate your burgers after hand grinding!

Seriously, the odds are so low - check the cdc website for some good info, buy local from somebody you know etc etc etc

[Digit]

33. My daughter purchased one for me at an antique shop

It was very thoughtful of her, but unfortunately, it did not work.
The connective tissues or fibrous tissues became entangled in the grinder repeatedly.
Oh, and the meat counter person had advised me on the cut to buy for use with a manual grinder.

Someday, I will get something decent to do the job.

[RevolutionaryActs]

27. Meanie!

:P



We buy organic hamburger, which I think is safer? Right?.... Right?!!?? :o

[Maddy McCall]

30. Certainly should be.

I'm going to start visiting the butcher in the neighboring big town...it's a 30 minute drive, but well worth it.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Have given up meat for some time (again...)

Back to being an ovo-lacto vegetarian

And don't you think if that cow were in CA, it would at least stand a chance of being a Happy Cow?? :silly:

Some kid in my area actually wrote several LTTEs to the local paper that the Happy Cow ads were bad because the cows here really stand in shit and mud all day, and are largely ignored. The kid was very serious and very upset.

The reponses to her LTTEs were hilarious!

[Maddy McCall]

15. You know, I need to go back and read FFN again.

Fast Food Nation.

I gave up all beef after that book. I seriously need to read it again.

[crispini]

19. Or "Diet for a New America"

It'll make you stop eating for a week. :puke:

[Maddy McCall]

21. I'll see if that's in our university library.

Thanks for the rec. :thumbsup:

[crispini]

9. I've cut way down,

but I may give it up entirely. Of course they're likely to find something equally as bad about chicken, etc.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. like bird flu?

[crispini]

17. yup.

glad I like vegetables. :think:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. i like veggies too but a dead animal is needed for me to enjoy my meal

[crispini]

24. Nah, I'm down to eating meet about 10% of the time.

Tofu, tempeh, beans and rice, eggs, nuts, cheese -- I don't miss meat when I do leave it out. :shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

18. Yeah. Pork will be the only safe meat...

unless it's undercooked. The critters that can get you from undercooked pork are heinous.

[uppityperson]

22. I gave it up protestingly

Yes, I like to eat cow. Hamburgers, steak, beef stroganoff and french dip sandwiches with real cow and real cow juice. However, chicken sandwich with jalapeno peppers is pretty good until there are no chickens left or they get too expensive to eat. Then grilled cheese with jalapeno peppers or portabella sandwiches adding a piece of brie for that extra special taste. I was sick today, ate 1 canof mushroom soup and fruitjuice and all that sounded pretty good.

[Maddy McCall]

25. I've heard a lot of vegans talk about portabella...

is that a good thing to grill or to use as a hamburger substitute? I know that it's not hamburger-like, but is a portabella sandwich good?

[uppityperson]

29. I buy them at Costco so they are affordable, and yes they are good

Marinate some in something, I use simple italian salad dressing, then put on the grill gill sides up. Take off, slice and yum. OK, now for sandwich: melt a bit of butter/margarine in a pan, put mushroom in gills up, put a bit more margarine/butter on gill side, and a bit of garlic, cover with lid and let it cook for 10 minutes or so. I like salt on mine, but MrUP doesn't. I like garlic but teenUP hasn't. They are also good to use for stroganoff in place of beef, cut in half then in slices so it looks the samish look, they don't cook down like regular white mushrooms do.

[Maddy McCall]

31. THANKS!

I might give that a spin this weekend--on the grill.

[meow2u3]

32. Was that Jeff Sessions?

Oops, I forgot. The article said "mad cow disease", not "mad cowboy disease."

[northofdenali]

35. Made it that far south, huh?

[DanCa]

36. Bird Flu vs Mad Cow

I think I'll eat fish, wait there is mercury in that too. I think the phrase eat drink and be merry is now more apapro than ever.

[GOPisEvil]

37. I'm not giving up beef.

This cow is old enough to have lived before the feed ban. Also, I don't eat cows' brains or other organs. All in all, beef is pretty damned safe. But, if you're not into taking chances, buy organic beef.

[tjwmason]

38. I ate beef right through the British B.S.E. outbreak.

I'm still eating chicken and other birds, I didn't give up eggs over salmonella.......